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Cube and the Face Around a Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti

Didi-Huberman Georges

ISBN: PB: 9783037345207, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, June 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 85 halftones

Alberto Giacometti's 1934 Cube stands apart for many as atypical of the Swiss artist, the only abstract sculptural work in a wide oeuvre that otherwise had as its objective the exploration of reality. With "The Cube and the Face", renowned French...

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Philosophy

History of Art

Modular Objects Civil Society

Oppenheimer Geof

ISBN: HB: 9780945323235, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, May 2015
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 143 halftones

"Modular Objects Civil Society" creatively reimagines the ways in which communities collectively produce meaning through the social environments they inhabit – and thereby cultivate. At its heart, the book is a reflection on the performance of living...

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History of Art

Public in the Picture Involving the Beholder in Antique, Islamic, Byzantine and Western Medieval and Renaissance Art

Fricke Beate, Krass Urte

ISBN: HB: 9783037344781, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 75 halftones

The act of including bystanders within the scene of an artwork has marked an important shift in the ways artists addressed the beholder, as well as a significant transformation of the relationship between images and their viewership. In such works, t...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Afterall Spring 2015, Issue 38

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

ISBN: PB: 9781846381560, University of Chicago Press, March 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

Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 49, 2014

Baetjer Katharine, Jones Julie, Mankin Kornhauser Elizabeth, Syson Luke

ISBN: PB: 9780226212678, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
260 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 700 colour plates

The Metropolitan Museum Journal, issued annually by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum's collections and the areas of investigation they represent. The essays in this volume include a new analysis of Gr...

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History of Art

Master of the Trebon Altarpiece

Royt Jan

ISBN: HB: 9788024622613, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2015
330 pp., 28.4x23.3 cm, 86 colour plates, 12 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Master of the Trebon Altarpiece was a painter active in Prague in the fourteenth century and one of the most important gothic artists of the international style. He is named for his mo...

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History of Art

Multiples in Pre-Modern Art

Cupperi Walter

ISBN: HB: 9783037343746, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 92 halftones

In the art world, replicas are typically thought to be of low value. However skillfully created, they remain in the eyes of many mere copies, pointing toward an original of greater significance. In recent years, however, replicas and multiples have c...

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Asia

Museum on the Roof of the World Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet

Harris Clare E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226213170, ISBN: HB: 9780226317472, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
328 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 19 colour plates, 50 halftones, 1 line illus.

For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics...

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Communities of Style Portable Luxury Arts, Identity, and Collective Memory in the Iron Age Levant

Feldman Marian H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226105611, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
264 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 colour plates, 41 halftones, 3 line drawings

"Communities of Style" examines the production and circulation of portable luxury goods throughout the Levant in the early Iron Age (1200-600 BCE). In particular it focuses on how societies in flux came together around the material effects of art and...

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History of Art

Resisting Abstraction Robert Delaunay and Vision in the Face of Modernism

Hughes Gordon

ISBN: HB: 9780226159065, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
184 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 92 colour plates, 46 halftones

Robert Delaunay was one of the leading artists working in Paris in the early decades of the twentieth century, and his paintings have been admired ever since as among the earliest purely abstract works. With "Resisting Abstraction", the first Engli...

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