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Iconoclasm
ISBN: HB: 9780226445335, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 57 halftones
With new surges of activity from religious, political, and military extremists, the destruction of images has become increasingly relevant on a global scale. A founder of the study of early modern and contemporary iconoclasm, David Freedberg has addr...
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£32,00
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West 86th A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226336930, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
176 pp., 24x19 cm, 55 colour plates, 45 halftones
Published on behalf of the Bard Graduate Center, "West 86th" focuses on scholarship in material culture, design history, and the decorative arts. In this issue, Eric Anderson examines how Angerer's photographs of Hans Makart's studio were informed by...
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West 86th, Volume 23, Issue 2
ISBN: PB: 9780226441276, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Bard Graduate Center in New York City,  "West 86th"  reaffirms the Center's commitment to expanding the conversation regarding the content, meaning, and significance of objects".West 86th"...
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Allure of Matter Materiality Across Chinese Art
ISBN: PB: 9780935573640, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, January 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 110 colour plates
Building on the Art and Materiality Symposium held on the occasion of the Smart Museum's exhibition The Allure of Matter, this publication considers the important but often overlooked role materials have played in the history of Chinese art and inclu...
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Endless
ISBN: PB: 9780945323273, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, January 2021
124 pp., 22x14.5 cm, 51 colour plates, 26 halftones
For over fifteen years, Karen Reimer has dedicated her artistic life to reconsidering modernist ideals and minimalist embodiment through the intriguing quirks of handmade and everyday objects".Endless", offers over seventy-five gorgeous reproductions...
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Claudia Wieser Generations
ISBN: HB: 9780935573633, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, January 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 157 colour plates
Claudia Wieser's artistic practice draws from history, architecture, and design, often playing with time and space. Influenced by artists who embraced spirituality – such as Hilma af Klint, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee – she considers abstraction...
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Fluxus Means Change Jean Brown's Avant-Garde Archive
ISBN: HB: 9781606066621, Getty Publications, December 2020
144 pp., 0x0 cm
An exploration of the radical artists who transformed the ways art is conceived, exhibited, and collected, through the Dada, Surrealist, and Fluxus collections of Jean and Leonard Brown. Throughout the 1960s, Jean and Leonard Brown used their radical...
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Look for Me All Around You Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber
ISBN: PB: 9783791358512, Prestel Publishing, December 2020
270 pp., 24x17 cm, 100 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
Accompanying "Look for Me All Around You", one of the three sections of Sharjah Biennial 14, this book charts a non-chronological time-space (dis-)continuum between the Americas and the Emirates, building unexpected trans-oceanic and multi-diasporic...
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Values in Heritage Management Emerging Approaches and Research
ISBN: PB: 9781606066188, Getty Publications, December 2020
278 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Over the last fifty years, conservation professionals have confronted increasingly complex political, economic, and cultural dynamics. This volume, with contributions by leading international practitioners and scholars, reviews how values-based metho...
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Pensive Image Art as a Form of Thinking
ISBN: HB: 9780226717951, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 26 halftones
While the philosophical dimension of painting has long been discussed, a clear case for painting as a form of visual thinking has yet to be made. Traditionally, vanitas still life paintings are considered to raise ontological issues while landscapes...
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