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History of Art

Art and Objecthood Essays and Reviews

Fried Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226263199, University of Chicago Press, April 1998
352 pp., 22.5x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 72 halftones

Much acclaimed and highly controversial, Michael Fried's art criticism defines the contours of late modernism in the visual arts. This volume contains twenty-seven pieces, including the influential introduction to the catalog for "Three American Pain...

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History of Art

Still More Distant Journeys The Artistic Emigrations of Lasar Segall

D'Alessandro Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9780935573190, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, February 1998
284 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 137 colour plates, 168 halftones

The first major retrospective of the work of Lasar Segall, this catalog explores the artist's changing cultural and artistic identities as demonstrated in over 224. Segall was an influential artist who infused Brazilian modernism with the color, ps...

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History of Art

150 Years of American Painting, 1794-1944

Gibbs Linda Jones

ISBN: HB: 9780842523189, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, January 1998
196 pp., 31.4x23.5 cm, 73 colour plates, 18 halftones

This lavishly illustrated catalog accompanies the first exhibition from the permanent collection at Brigham Young University's Museum of Art. The book highlights seventy-three of the finest American paintings from that collection, including works by...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Arts Club of Chicago The Collection 1916-1996

Shaw Sophia

ISBN: PB: 9780964344037, University of Chicago Press, January 1998
136 pp., 29.7x23.4 cm, 31 colour plates, 44 halftones

Founded in 1916, the "Arts Club of Chicago" has long been committed to innovation in the visual and performing arts. Through the years, important commissions, purchases, and gifts from artists and patrons have formed an impressive collection of moder...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art

Bogart Michele H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226063089, ISBN: HB: 9780226063072, University of Chicago Press, November 1997
444 pp., 24.6x16.8 cm, 93 halftones

Norman Rockwell and Andy Warhol, J. C. Leyendecker and Georgia O'Keeffe, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Pepsi-Cola, the avant garde and the Famous Artists Schools, Inc. : these are some of the unexpected pairings encountered in "Artists, Advertis...

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History of Art

Eskimo Artists

Himmelheber Hans

ISBN: PB: 9780912006697, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 1997
83 pp., 23.3x21.7 cm, black&white photos

Hans Himmelheber describes the cultural and artistic heritage of the Yup'ik in southwestern Alaska during the late 1930s. His work is remarkable because he emphasized drawing, carving, and painting as part of a narrative process instead of focusing o...

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History of Art

Largesse

Starobinski Jean

ISBN: PB: 9780226771366, ISBN: HB: 9780226771359, University of Chicago Press, June 1997
220 pp., 30x21.1 cm, 30 colour plates, 50 halftones

In 1990 the Department of Graphic Arts at the Louvre made their holdings available to guest curators for a program called Parti Pris, or "Taking Sides". In this program, major cultural figures outside of the discipline of art history organized exhibi...

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History of Art

Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art

Koerner Joseph Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226449999, University of Chicago Press, February 1997
564 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 223 halftones

In this groundbreaking and elegantly written study, Joseph Koerner establishes the character of Renaissance art in Germany. Opening up new modes of inquiry for historians of art and early modern Europe, Koerner examines how artists such as Albrecht D...

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History of Art

Likeness and Presence A History of the Image before the Era of Art

Belting Hans

ISBN: PB: 9780226042152, University of Chicago Press, January 1997
676 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 12 colour plates, 294 halftones

Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of the Holy. In this magisterial book, Hans Belting traces the long history of the sacral image and its c...

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History of Art

Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion

Steinberg Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226771878, University of Chicago Press, January 1997
426 pp., 23.4x19.8 cm, 300 halftones

Originally published in 1983, Leo Steinberg's classic work has changed the viewing habits of a generation. After centuries of repression and censorship, the sexual component in thousands of revered icons of Christ is restored to visibility. Steinberg...

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