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History of Art

Deaths of Henri Regnault

Gotlieb Marc

ISBN: HB: 9780226276045, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
320 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 48 colour plates, 77 halftones

This is the first book in English on Henri Regnault (1843-71), a forgotten star of the European fin-de-siecle. A brilliant maverick who once seemed to hold the future of French painting in his hands, Regnault enjoyed a meteoric rise that was cut shor...

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History of Art

Picturing

DeLue Rachael Z.

ISBN: PB: 9780932171573, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, April 2016
216 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 62 colour plates

The history of American art is a history of objects, but it is also a history of ideas about how we create and consume these objects. As "Picturing" convincingly shows, the critical tradition in American art has given rise to profound thinking about...

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History of Art

Vision in Motion Streams of Sensation and Configurations of Time

Zimmermann Michael F.

ISBN: HB: 9783037345221, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
528 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 30 colour plates, 85 halftones

Vision is not just a simple recognition of what passes through our field of sight, the reflection and observation of light and shape. Even before Freud posited dreams as a way of "seeing" even as we sleep, the writings of philosophers, artists, and s...

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History of Art

Arts and Crafts Movement Making It Irish

Kreilkamp Vera

ISBN: PB: 9781892850256, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, February 2016
250 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 150 colour plates, 75 halftones

This volume, which accompanies an exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College, offers the first comprehensive look at the Irish dimension of the international Arts and Crafts movement. The exhibition celebrates the centenary of one of...

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Gender Studies

25 Women Essays on Their Art

Hickey Dave

ISBN: HB: 9780226333151, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
192 pp., 22x18.4 cm, 26 colour plates, 1 halftone

Newsweek calls him "exhilarating and deeply engaging". Time Out New York calls him "smart, provocative, and a great writer". Critic Peter Schjeldahl, meanwhile, simply calls him "My hero". There's no one in the art world quite like Dave Hickey – and...

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Europe

Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II Mannerist Art and Architecture in the Imperial Capital, 1583-1612

Fucikova Eliska

ISBN: PB: 9788024622637, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2015
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 106 colour plates, 25 halftones, 6 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II" takes readers back to the days of the Habsburg Emperor Rudolph II (1576-1611) when Prague became the metropolis of the Holy Roman Empire, and when the i...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Afterall Autumn/Winter 2014, Issue 37

Vilalta Helena, Gronlund Melissa, Lafuente Pablo, Kreuger Anders, Cahill Zachary

ISBN: PB: 9781846381553, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
160 pp., 29.8x19 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Since its launch in 1999, "Afterall", a journal of art, context, and enquiry, has offered in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Published three times a year,...

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History of Art

Brushstroke and Emergence Courbet, Impressionism, Picasso

Herbert James D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226272016, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
176 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 38 colour plates, 4 halftones, 6 line drawings

No pictorial device in nineteenth-century French painting more clearly represented the free-ranging self than the loose brushstroke. From the romantics through the impressionists and post-impressionists, the brushstroke bespoke autonomous artistic in...

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Architecture

History of Art

On Loos, Ornament and Crime Columns of Smoke: Volume II

Lahuerta Juan Jose, Thomson Graham

ISBN: PB: 9788493923150, University of Chicago Press, Editorial Tenov, September 2015
112 pp., 21x15.8 cm, 56 halftones

In his Columns of Smoke series, Juan Jose Lahuerta takes on the enormously ambitious task of re-reading modernity, offering us fresh ways of looking at it while drawing new links between the ideas of architecture and ornamentation, with a special foc...

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Philosophy

History of Art

After the Beautiful Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226325583, ISBN: HB: 9780226079493, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 colour plates, 36 halftones

In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility – the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegel's approach to art has been influen...

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