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Medieval

Pilgrimage and Pogrom Violence, Memory, and Visual Culture at the Host-Miracle Shrines of Germany and Austria

Merback Mitchell B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226520193, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
416 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 122 halftones, 20 colour illus.

In the late Middle Ages, Europe saw the rise of one of its most virulent myths: that Jews abused the eucharistic bread as a form of anti-Christian blasphemy, causing it to bleed miraculously. The allegation fostered tensions between Christians and Je...

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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Ted Lambert The Man Behind the Paintings

Lambert Ted

ISBN: PB: 9781602231658, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
176 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 colour illus.

Ted Lambert is regarded as one of the premier Alaska artists, a true pioneer. Born in 1905, and raised in the Chicago area, Lambert moved to Alaska in 1925 and went to work as a miner near McCarthy. He held several jobs, predominantly working at a co...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

History of Art

Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture

Neer Richard T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226570648, ISBN: HB: 9780226570631, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
288 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 10 colour illus., 130 halftones, 12 line illus.

In the fifth century B. C. E, an artistic revolution occurred in Greece, as sculptors developed new ways of representing bodies, movement, and space. The resulting "Classical" style would prove influential for centuries and millennia to come. Modern...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Afterall Autumn/Winter 2012, Issue 31

Mayo Nuria Enguita, Gronlund Melissa, Lafuente Pablo, Kreuger Anders, Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9781846381010, University of Chicago Press, February 2013
130 pp., 29.8x19 cm

"Afterall", a journal of art, context, and enquiry offers in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Published three times a year, "Afterall" also features essays...

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History of Art

Quality Instinct Seeing Art Through a Museum Director's Eye

Anderson Maxwell L.

ISBN: PB: 9781933253671, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, February 2013
236 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 60 colour illus.

How do we judge what is good in art? And more to the point, can we even judge art? These questions have long spawned heated conversations about objectivity, subjectivity, and qualitative judgment that span both the academic and art worlds. Acclaimed...

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History of Art

Czech Modern Painters 1888-1918

Wittlich Petr

ISBN: HB: 9788024620725, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2013
207 pp., 25.4x22.8 cm, 29 halftones, 130 colour illus.

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Dealing with not only specific artists in the context of their national identity, but also with overarching themes in the rise of modernism, "Czech Modern Painters" is an articulate and we...

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History of Art

Philosophy

Invisible Dragon Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded

Hickey Dave

ISBN: PB: 9780226333199, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
152 pp., 17.8x15 cm, 8 halftones

"The Invisible Dragon" made a lot of noise for a little book When it was originally published in 1993 it was championed by artists for its forceful call for a reconsideration of beauty – and savaged by more theoretically oriented critics who dismisse...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Afterall Summer 2012, Issue 30

Mayo Nuria Enguita, Gronlund Melissa, Smith Stephanie, Kreuger Anders

ISBN: PB: 9781846380891, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
150 pp., 29.8x19 cm

Since its launch in 1999, "Afterall", a journal of art, context, and enquiry, has offered in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Published three times a year,...

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History of Art

Nature Drawings of Peter Karklins

Kirkland Sean D.

ISBN: PB: 9780978907457, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, August 2012
64 pp., 28x20 cm, 1 colour plate, 34 halftones

The German-born, Chicago-based Latvian artist Peter Karklins creates small, pencil-and-paper drawings that capture the processes and energies just below the surface of all human life. The complexity of his organic forms is matched by the artist's met...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Afterall Spring 2012, Issue 29

Mayo Nuria Enguita, Gronlund Melissa, Lafuente Pablo, Roelstraete Dieter

ISBN: PB: 9781846380877, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
130 pp., 29.8x19 cm

"Afterall", a journal of art, context and enquiry, offers in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists along with essays that broaden how to understand it. "Issue 29" looks at the artistic economy and the different means that artists...

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