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Contemporary Art

GONE Site-Specific Works by Dorothy Cross

Lydenberg Robin

ISBN: PB: 9781892850096, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, April 2005
120 pp., 25.6x20.7 cm, 123 colour plates, 3 halftones

Over the past few decades, site-specific art has evolved into an international phenomenon, drawing viewers to installations in familiar public arenas as well as remote and unusual places. Irish artist Dorothy Cross has emerged as one of the form's mo...

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History of Art

Art of Stained Glass

Rousseau Richard

ISBN: HB: 9781589660076, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, April 2005
135 pp., 29.3x21.6 cm

Stained glass windows were part of church building practices in Northeastern Pennsylvania during its boom years in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book celebrates the religious significance, artistic beauty, and regional impor...

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History of Art

Paper Museums The Reproductive Print in Europe, 1500-1800

Zorach Rebecca, Rodini Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780935573404, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, April 2005
168 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 9 colour plates, 113 halftones

As relatively inexpensive, transportable, and storable objects, prints occupied an important place in early modern European culture. Many of them reproduced other works of art and we now call them "reproductive" prints. They were often considered to...

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Photography

Red Empty (Chicago 2003)

Hausswolff Carl Michael von

ISBN: PB: 9780945323044, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, April 2005
128 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, 56 colour plates

Light and darkness transform city buildings into surreal structures: an ordinary gray concrete building in plain daylight changes at night into a mysterious monolith or, under a blue-tinted lens, into an ethereal edifice. Swedish artist Carl Michael...

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Photography

Anthracite Ghosts

Dinteman Walter

ISBN: PB: 9780940866454, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, April 2005
103 pp., 28x21.7 cm

Walter Dinteman wandered the coal fields of northeastern Pennsylvania from 1970 to 1973, photographic the remains of the anthracite coal industry. Many of these buildings have long since decayed. Dinteman's photographs tell the story of beauty amid d...

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Decorative Arts

Catalogue Raisonne

Five Centuries of Hanukkah Lamps from the Jewish Museum A Catalogue Raisonne

Braunstein Susan L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300106237, Yale University Press, March 2005
424 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 129 colour images, 497 duotones and 163 halftones illus.

The observance of Hanukkah as a time of freedom and miracles resonates strongly with Jews today as in centuries past, and the Hanukkah lamp is central to the celebratory ritual. The importance of the Hanukkah lamp is reflected in the collection of Th...

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History of Art

Art in Mind How Contemporary Images Shape Thought

Alphen Ernst van

ISBN: PB: 9780226015293, ISBN: HB: 9780226015286, University of Chicago Press, March 2005
224 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 72 halftones

Art has the power to affect our thinking, changing not only the way we view and interact with the world but also how we create it. In "Art in Mind", Ernst van Alphen probes this idea of art as a commanding force with the capacity to shape our intelle...

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History of Art

Paris in Despair Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870-1871)

Clayson Hollis

ISBN: PB: 9780226109572, ISBN: HB: 9780226109510, University of Chicago Press, March 2005
472 pp., 23.4x21.6 cm, 36 colour plates, 181 halftones

The siege of Paris by Prussians in the fall and winter of 1870 and 1871 turned the city upside down, radically altering its appearance, social structure, and mood. As Hollis Clayson demonstrates in "Paris in Despair", the siege took an especially hea...

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Photography

Speed, Style, and Beauty Cars from the Ralph Lauren Collection

ISBN: HB: 9780878466856, DAP, MFA Publications, March 2005
210 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 196 colour illus., 37 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Bugatti and Bentley, Alfa and Aston, Mercedes and McLaren – these are not merely cars, they are some of the most exquisite automobiles ever assembled, selected by Ralph Lauren, one of the foremost designers of our time. Thi...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Sebastian's Arrows Letters and Mementos of Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca

Dali Salvador, Lorca Federico Garcia

ISBN: HB: 9780967880884, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, February 2005
248 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 24 colour plates

"Let us agree", Federico Garcia Lorca wrote, "that one of man's most beautiful postures is that of St. Sebastian". "In my 'Saint Sebastian' I remember you", Salvador Dali replied to Garcia Lorca, referring to the essay on aesthetics that Dali had j...

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