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History of Art

Women Studies

Artemisia Files Artemisia Gentileschi for Feminists and Other Thinking People

Bal Mieke

ISBN: PB: 9780226035826, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
245 pp., 19.4x13.1 cm, 44 halftones

One of the first female artists to achieve recognition in her own time, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) became instantly popular in the 1970s when feminist art historians "discovered" her and argued vehemently for a place for her in the canon of It...

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History of Art

Rhetoric of Perspective Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-Life Painting

Grootenboer Hanneke

ISBN: PB: 9780226309705, ISBN: HB: 9780226309682, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
246 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 24 colour plates, 2 line drawings

Perspective determines how we, as viewers, perceive painting. We can convince ourselves that a painting of a bowl of fruit or a man in a room appears to be real by the way these objects are rendered. Likewise, the trick of perspective can prevent us...

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History of Art

Culture Studies

What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images

Mitchell W. J. T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226532486, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 colour plates, 84 halftones, 10 line drawings

Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or e...

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Contemporary Art

Politics of Urban Beauty New York and Its Art Commission

Bogart Michele H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226063058, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
352 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 85 halftones

Since its founding in 1898, the Art Commission of the City of New York (ACNY) has served as the city's aesthetic gatekeeper, evaluating all works of art intended for display on city property. And over the years, the commission's domain has expanded d...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Norman Rockwell The Underside of Innocence

Halpern Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226314402, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
218 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 12 colour plates, 40 halftones

Norman Rockwell's scenes of everyday small-town life are among the most indelible images in all of twentieth-century art. While opinions of Rockwell vary from uncritical admiration to sneering contempt, those who love him and those who dismiss him do...

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Contemporary Art

Making Memory Matter Strategies of Remembrance in Contemporary Art

Saltzman Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226734088, ISBN: HB: 9780226734071, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
128 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 23 halftones

In an ancient account of painting's origins, a woman traces the shadow of her departing lover on the wall in an act that anticipates future grief and commemoration. Lisa Saltzman shows here that nearly two thousand years after this story was first to...

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Contemporary Art

Sweet Dreams Contemporary Art and Complicity

Drucker Johanna

ISBN: PB: 9780226165059, ISBN: HB: 9780226165042, University of Chicago Press, September 2006
264 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 16 colour plates, 32 halftones

Johanna Drucker's "sweet dream" is for a new and more positive approach to contemporary art. Calling for a revamping of the academic critical vocabulary used to discuss art into one more befitting current creative practices, Drucker argues that conte...

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History of Art

Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Netzer Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9781892850102, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, June 2006
300 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 135 colour plates, 27 halftones

A major contribution to the study of medieval and Renaissance art, "Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century" studies nearly 100 works from the vast collections of the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in an effort to determine the m...

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History of Art

Winslow Homer Poet of the Sea

Levy Sophie

ISBN: PB: 9780932171504, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, June 2006
152 pp., 27.9x22.3 cm, 100 colour plates

Waves battering the weathered rocks on a shore, young boys sailing carefree on open waters: "Winslow Homer's" raw, evocative seascapes are among the most distinctive and powerful in American art".Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea" offers here a fresh ex...

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Literary Criticism

History of Art

Mieke Bal Reader

Bal Mieke

ISBN: PB: 9780226035857, ISBN: HB: 9780226035840, University of Chicago Press, May 2006
496 pp., 23x15 cm, 40 halftones, 2 tables

Mieke Bal has had a significant impact on every field she has touched, from Old Testament scholarship and narratology to critical methods and visual culture. This brilliant and controversial intellectual invariably performs a high-wire act at the poi...

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