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Culture Studies

On the Animation of the Inorganic Art, Architecture, and the Extension of Life

Papapetros Spyros

ISBN: PB: 9780226380193, ISBN: HB: 9780226645681, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
440 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 164 halftones, 10 colour illus.

Throughout human history, people have imagined inanimate objects to have intelligence, language, and even souls. In our secular societies today, we still willingly believe that nonliving objects have lives of their own as we find ourselves interactin...

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America

Lofts of SoHo Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950-1980

Shkuda Aaron

ISBN: HB: 9780226334189, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 3 tables

American cities entered a new phase when, beginning in the 1950s, artists and developers looked upon a decaying industrial zone in Lower Manhattan and saw, not blight, but opportunity: cheap rents, lax regulation, and wide open spaces. Thus, SoHo was...

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Maria Bartuszova Provisional Forms

Dziewanska Marta

ISBN: PB: 9788364177262, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, March 2016
250 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 60 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! The work of Slovak sculptor Maria Bartuszova (1936-1996) was first presented to international audiences in Kassel in 2007. Although her art has appeared in influential exhibitions and been included in prestigious contemporar...

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Experimental Group Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes

Jackson Matthew Jesse

ISBN: PB: 9780226317960, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
336 pp., 25.4x21.5 cm, 69 colour plates, 89 halftones, 1 line drawing

A compelling study of unofficial postwar Soviet art, "The Experimental Group" takes as its point of departure a subject of strange fascination: the life and work of renowned professional illustrator and conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov. Kabakov's art –...

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Willem de Kooning Nonstop Cherchez la femme

Krauss Rosalind E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226267449, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
176 pp., 24x17 cm, 65 colour plates, 8 halftones

In the early 1950s, Willem de Kooning's "Woman I" and subsequent paintings established him as a leading member of the abstract expressionist movement. His wildly impacted brushstrokes and heavily encrusted surfaces baffled most critics, who saw de Ko...

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Concave Thoughts 256 Digital Drawings

Netzhammer Yves

ISBN: PB: 9783037345344, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
512 pp., 20.3x14 cm, Illustrated in halftones throughout

The digital drawings of Yves Netzhammer invite viewers into a fascinating world of figures that appear both human and animal, while simultaneously blurring the distinction between object and living thing. By turns nightmarish or playful and cartoon-l...

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Arthur Dove Always Connect

DeLue Rachael Z.

ISBN: HB: 9780226142197, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
384 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 58 colour plates, 87 halftones

Arthur Dove, often credited as America's first abstract painter, created dynamic and evocative images inspired by his surroundings, from the farmland of upstate New York to the north shore of Long Island. But his interests did not stop with nature. C...

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Photography

Contemporary Art

Idol Structures Sculptures and Photographs by Matt Siber

Siber Matt, Raskin David, Harris Gregory J.

ISBN: PB: 9780985096014, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, March 2016
50 pp., 22.8x30.5 cm, 20 colour plates

"Idol Structures" accompanies an exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum of recent photographs and sculptures by Chicago-based artist Matt Siber, whose work explores the systems of corporate and mass-media communication that permeate the urban landscape....

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Helio Oiticica Folding the Frame

Small Irene V.

ISBN: HB: 9780226260167, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
304 pp., 25.4x21.5 cm, 50 colour plates, 85 halftones

Helio Oiticica (1937-1980) was one of the most brilliant Brazilian artists of the 1960s and 1970s. His unique melding of geometric abstraction with works that directly engage viewers' bodies has influenced contemporary artists from Gabriel Orozco and...

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Concerning Consequences Studies in Art, Destruction, and Trauma

Stiles Kristine

ISBN: PB: 9780226774534, ISBN: HB: 9780226774510, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
504 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 29 halftones

Kristine Stiles has played a vital role in establishing trauma studies within the humanities. A formidable force in the art world, Stiles examines the significance of traumatic experiences both in the individual lives and works of artists and in cont...

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