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What Is Contemporary Art?
ISBN: PB: 9780226764313, University of Chicago Press, October 2009
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 75 halftones
Who gets to say what counts as contemporary art? Artists, critics, curators, gallerists, auctioneers, collectors, or the public? Revealing how all of these groups have shaped today's multifaceted definition, Terry Smith brilliantly shows that an hist...
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£22,00
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Chance Aesthetics
ISBN: HB: 9780936316277, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, September 2009
160 pp., 22.6x16.5 cm, 60 colour plates
"Chance Aesthetics" embraces the role played by chance in modernist art from the beginning of the twentieth century through the early 1970s. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, this volume brings together...
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£26,50
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Katharina Grosse Atoms Inside Balloons
ISBN: PB: 9780941548533, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, January 2009
256 pp., 20.9x16.5 cm, 111 colour plates
Katharina Grosse's painting practice is a phoenix from the ashes of late Modernism, appending themselves to the Greenbergian cul de sac in an uncanny manner. Since 1998 Grosse has been using a compressed-air spray gun to apply garish swaths and splas...
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Proximity to Power, American Style
ISBN: PB: 9780945323181, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, December 2008
108 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 77 colour plates, 45 halftones
Just in time for the 2008 election, WhiteWalls presents a comprehensive collection of Silvia Kolbowski's wry and searching responses to the questionable actions of the American government, as well as recent national shifts in legal, corporate, and cu...
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£11,50
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Displacement The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art
ISBN: PB: 9780935573466, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2008
160 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 100 colour plates
When it is completed in 2009 the Three Gorges Dam, a hydroelectric dam which spans the Yangzi River in China, will generate enough electricity to power four cities the size of Los Angeles. Despite the fact that it will drastically reduce coal consump...
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With Love From Haha Essays and Notes on a Collective Practice
ISBN: PB: 9780945323136, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, September 2008
172 pp., 22.6x19 cm, 120 colour plates, 27 halftones
Since its inception in 1988, the art collective Haha has created twenty-one projects – including sculptural installations, community-based projects, and video works – in the United States and Europe. Members Richard House, Wendy Jacob, Laurie Palmer,...
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£19,00
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Thaddeus Strode Absolutes and Nothings
ISBN: HB: 9780936316246, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, March 2008
80 pp., 32.5x24.1 cm, 28 colour plates
Thaddeus Strode's vibrant large-scale paintings are universes unto themselves: wild mash-ups of California surf and skateboard culture, Zen philosophy, rock music, literature, film, and comic books".Absolutes and Nothings" marks the artist's first ma...
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On the Margins
ISBN: HB: 9780936316253, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, February 2008
64 pp., 33x22.9 cm, 36 colour plates
The iconography of war and disaster have shaped the first years of the twenty-first century, both in the United States and throughout the world".On the Margins" brings together a culturally diverse group of international artists whose work engages th...
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Other Criteria Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art
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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£43,50
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Anarchist Modernism Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde
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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