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Michelangelo's Painting Selected Essays
ISBN: HB: 9780226482262, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
432 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 124 colour plates, 122 halftones
Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures that ranged from old masters to contemp...
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£49,00
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Traces of Modernism Art and Politics from the First World War to Totalitarianism
ISBN: PB: 9783593510309, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
222 pp., 21.2x13.9 cm, 6 colour plates, 4 halftones
"Traces of Modernism" surveys the competing social and political visions that marked the transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, and the complex relationships and connections between these visions. A host of international contributor...
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£55,00
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Unthought Environments
ISBN: PB: 9780941548755, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, January 2020
215 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 94 colour plates, 7 halftones
"Unthought Environments" brings together art influenced by the forces that are integral to our daily lives, yet are easily forgotten or overlooked, such as the ancient elements of air, fire, water, and earth; weather systems; geopolitics; and the hid...
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£30,00
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Value of Critique Exploring the Interrelations of Value, Critique, and Artistic Labour
ISBN: PB: 9783593510101, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
300 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
"The Value of Critique" casts its gaze on the two dominant modes of passing judgment in art – critique and value (or evaluation). The act of critique has long held sway in the world of art theory but has recently been increasingly abandoned in favor...
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£36,00
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William Trost Richards Hieroglyphs of Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9781892850393, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, January 2020
215 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 277 colour plates
This catalog accompanies the first monographic examination of the art of William Trost Richards in Boston. The exhibition, presented at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College, features oil paintings, watercolors, and drawings, including many ra...
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£28,00
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Zofia Kulik Methodology, My Love
ISBN: HB: 9788364177590, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, January 2020
360 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 60 halftones
Not for sale in Poland! Zofia Kulik's rich artistic career has a dual nature. Between 1970 and 1987, she worked alongside Przemyslaw Kwiek as a member of the duo KwieKulik, after which she began to develop a successful individual career. While Kwie...
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£28,00
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Against the Avant-Garde Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, and Neocapitalism
ISBN: HB: 9780226655277, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 36 colour plates, 139 halftones
Recognized in America chiefly for his films, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) in fact reinvented interdisciplinarity in postwar Europe. Pasolini self-confessedly approached the cinematic image through painting, and the numerous allusions to early mode...
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£36,00
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Ileana Sonnabend and Arte Povera
ISBN: HB: 9781944379193, DAP, Levy Gorvy, January 2020
348 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! This two-volume publication accompanies the exhibition "Ileana Sonnabend and Arte Povera" held at Hauser & Wirth New York in 2017. The larger of the two books includes a comprehensive chronology, including every exhibition...
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£90,00
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