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Animals in Four Worlds Sculptures from India
ISBN: HB: 9780226767260, University of Chicago Press, September 1989
210 pp., 29x22.3 cm, 179 halftones
Animals play a special role in Indian culture. In opposition to deities, they help to frame the human community. Indian philosophy assumes the basic unity of animals and humans and in everyday life animals symbolize various ideas and sentiments. In t...
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£58,00
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Design Discourse History, Theory, Criticism
ISBN: PB: 9780226505145, University of Chicago Press, September 1989
302 pp., 25.2x17.7 cm, 71 halftones, 30 line drawings
Although design infuses every object in the material world and gives form to immaterial processes as well, it is only recently that design itself has become the focus of intellectual debate. In "Design Discourse", Victor Margolin gathers together a b...
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£24,00
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Transformation of the Avant-Garde The New York Art World, 1940-1985
ISBN: PB: 9780226117904, University of Chicago Press, July 1989
204 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 32 halftones
With the rise of Abstract Expressionism, New York City became the acknowledged center of the avant-garde. Diana Crane documents the transformation of the New York art world between 1940 and 1985, both in the artistic styles that emerged during this p...
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£21,00
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Making of Paul Klee's Career, 1914-1920
ISBN: HB: 9780226893587, University of Chicago Press, July 1989
343 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 125 halftones
Paul Klee – one of the preeminent artists of the twentieth century – was associated with all of the major movements of the first half of the century: expressionism, cubism, surrealism, and abstraction. In this economic and political history, O. K. We...
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£69,00
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William D Berry 1954-1956 Field Sketches
ISBN: PB: 9780912006369, ISBN: HB: 9780912006345, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 1989
304 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm
This book offers a unique glimpse of Alaska and its creatures, rendered on paper by a man who loved and respected them. William D. Berry was nationally known as a wildlife artist, but to many Alaskans, he was also a kind of state treasure and certain...
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£19,00
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£26,50
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Visitable Past Views of Venice by American Artists, 1860-1915
ISBN: HB: 9780226494128, University of Chicago Press, April 1989
139 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 16 colour plates, 92 halftones, 17 maps
In this ambitious and imaginative study, Margaretta M. Lovell analyzes the large body of accomplished, sometimes startling, often brilliant work of American artists drawn to Venice's ragged splendor in the last century. Including major works by such...
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£60,00
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