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Contemporary Art

Toni Grand

Diserens Corrine

ISBN: HB: 9780941548434, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, January 2002
60 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 10 colour plates, 13 halftones

This catalogue is the first English-language monograph on the work of this French sculptor, who gained critical recognition as a member of the French movement Supports-Surfaces, founded in 1970. This group viewed the formal relationships between the...

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Jewish Studies

Fiction

Two Jews on a Train Stories from the Old Country and the New

Biro Adam

ISBN: PB: 9780226052168, ISBN: HB: 9780226052144, University of Chicago Press, May 2001
144 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

"Two Jews were traveling on a train..". Many Eastern European jokes – and several of the charming and often hilarious conversations in this book – begin this way. From all regions of the world and from all walks of life, the characters are young and...

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History of Art

Transforming Images The Art of Silver Horn and His Successors

Donnelley Robert G., Greene Candace S., Berlo Janet Catherine

ISBN: PB: 9780935573312, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, March 2001
216 pp., 30.5x24.9 cm, 75 colour plates, 15 black&white photographs

Silver Horn's lifespan (1860-1940) placed him in the midst of extreme cultural transformations: by the time of his death, highways, silos, and gas stations dominated the land that had, at his birth, been the domain of buffalo herds and Plains Indians...

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Philosophy

Christianity

Tears and Saints

Cioran E. M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226106748, ISBN: HB: 9780226106724, University of Chicago Press, July 1998
154 pp., 21.3x12.9 cm

By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. Researching another, more radical book, Cioran was spending hours in a library poring over the lives of saints. As a mode...

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Reference

Tricks of the Trade How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It

Becker Howard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226041247, University of Chicago Press, January 1998
239 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm, 1 halftone, 5 tables

Drawing on more than four decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Howard Becker now brings to students and researchers the many valuable techniques he has learned".Tricks of the Trade" will help students learn how to think about research p...

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Contemporary Art

Transforming the Crown African, Asian, and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966-1996

Sirmans M. Franklin, Beauchamp-Byrd Mora J.

ISBN: PB: 9780965408202, University of Chicago Press, March 1997
160 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 73 colour plates, 175 halftones

Transforming the Crown is the catalog for a landmark exhibition organized by the Caribbean Cultural Center/African Diaspora Institute in New York City. The exhibition chronicles the aesthetic production of artists of African and Asian descent in the...

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Sport

Training the Body for China Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic

Brownell Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226076478, University of Chicago Press, August 1995
401 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 tables, 23 halftones, glossary of Chinese terms

Competing in the 1986 National College Games of the People's Republic of China, Susan Brownell earned both a gold medal in the heptathlon and fame throughout China as "the American girl who won glory for Beijing University". Now an anthropologist, Br...

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Philosophy

Truth and Existence

Sartre Jean-Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226735238, University of Chicago Press, June 1995
143 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

"Truth and Existence", written in response to Martin Heidegger's "Essence of Truth", is a product of the years when Sartre was reaching full stature as a philosopher, novelist, playwright, essayist, and political activist. This concise and engaging t...

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Photography

Tom Gibson False Evidence Appearing Real

Langford Martha

ISBN: PB: 9780888845672, University of Chicago Press, August 1994
109 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm, 46 halftones

"Tom Gibson: False Evidence Appearing Real" features forty-four photographs, an interview with Gibson, and critical commentary. Gibson's photographs depict cities and their inhabitants in Europe, Canada, and the United States. In many images, the cit...

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History of Art

To Destroy Painting

Marin Louis

ISBN: PB: 9780226505350, ISBN: HB: 9780226505343, University of Chicago Press, March 1994
196 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 22 halftones

The work of the eminent French cultural critic Louis Marin (1931-1992) is becoming increasingly important to English-speaking scholars concerned with issues of representation".To Destroy Painting", first published in France in 1977, marks a milestone...

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