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History of Art

David After David Essays on the Later Work

Ledbury Mark, Bajou Valerie, Bordes Philippe, Crow Thomas, Fried Michael, Harkett Daniel, Grimaldo Grigsby Darcy, Guegan Stephane, Janzing Godehard, Johnson Dorothy

ISBN: HB: 9780300121513, Yale University Press, November 2007
256 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 16 colour illus., 140 black&white illus.

With essays by Valerie Bajou, Philippe Bordes, Thomas Crow, Michael Fried, Tom Gretton, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Stephane Guegan, Daniel Harkett, Godehard Janzing, Dorothy Johnson, Mehdi Korchane, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Issa Lampe, Mark Ledbury, Simon L...

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Photography

Chicago under Glass Early Photographs from the Chicago Daily News

Jacob Mark, Cahan Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226089300, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
272 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 260 duotones

When the "Chicago Daily News" closed its doors in March 1978 after over a century of publication, the city mourned the loss of an American original".The Daily News" boasted the inventive, aggressive writing of such luminaries as Carl Sandburg and Ben...

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History of Art

Pollock Matters

Landau Ellen G., Cernuschi Claude

ISBN: PB: 9781892850133, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, November 2007
178 pp., 28x28 cm, 282 colour plates

Legendary abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is most famous for the frenetic, highly textured works created through his trademark "drip" technique in which he poured paint from its can directly onto the canvas".Pollock Matters...

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Photography

Military

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War

Gilbertson Ashley

ISBN: HB: 9780226293257, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
260 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 230 colour plates

Arriving in Iraq on the eve of the U. S. invasion, unaffiliated with any newspaper and hoping to pick up assignments along the way, Ashley Gilbertson was one of the first photojournalists to cover the disintegration of America's military triumph as l...

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Contemporary Art

Other Criteria Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art

Steinberg Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226771854, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
448 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 295 halftones

Leo Steinberg's classic "Other Criteria" comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from "Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public" and the "flatbed picture plane" to reflections on Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rodin, de Kooning, Pollock, Guston, and...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Anarchist Modernism Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde

Antliff Allan

ISBN: PB: 9780226021041, ISBN: HB: 9780226021034, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
314 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 4 colour plates, 84 halftones

The relationship of the anarchist movement to American art during the World War I era is most often described as a "tenuous affinity" between two distinct spheres: political and artistic. In "Anarchist Modernism" – the first in-depth exploration of t...

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Design

Drawn to Enchant Original Children's Book Art in the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection

Young Timothy

ISBN: HB: 9780300126730, Yale University Press, October 2007
196 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 250 colour illus.

Betsy Beinecke Shirley, one of the great collectors of American children's literature, gathered a peerless collection of books, original illustrations, manuscripts, and ephemera. This gorgeously illustrated book presents over 200 selected original ar...

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History of Art

Art for Art's Sake Aestheticism in Victorian Painting

Prettejohn Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300135497, Yale University Press, October 2007
320 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 40 colour, 85 black&white illus.

This book is the first to explore the distinctive role of painting in the debates surrounding the notion of 'art for art's sake' and Aestheticism in Victorian England. In the London circles of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Frederic Leighton, this artist...

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Cartoon Art

Art of William Steig

Nahson Claudia J., Cottingham Robert, Sorel Edward, Steig Jeanne, Steig Maggie, Sendak Maurice

ISBN: HB: 9780300124781, Yale University Press, October 2007
208 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 165 black&white illus., 131 colour illus.

Known for his brilliant cartoons and award-winning children's books, William Steig (1907-2003) leaves a legacy that spans much of the 20th century. This lavishly illustrated book features over 250 of Steig's drawings, many of them previously unpublis...

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History of Art

Inspiring Impressionism The Impressionists and the Art of the Past

Bray Xavier, Clarke Michael, Collins John, Dumas Ann, House John, Suzman Jowell Frances, Rand Richard, Stevenson Lesley

ISBN: HB: 9780300131321, Yale University Press, October 2007
304 pp., 30.5x25.1 cm, 175 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Inspiring Impressionism explores links between Impressionists and the major European art-historical movements that came before them, demonstrating how often beneath the Impressionists' commitment to capturing contemporary life there lay a deep explor...

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