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Photography

Picturing Ourselves Photography and Autobiography

Rugg Linda Haverty

ISBN: PB: 9780226731476, ISBN: HB: 9780226731469, University of Chicago Press, December 1997
293 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 40 halftones, 5 line drawings

Photography has transformed the way we picture ourselves. Although photographs seem to "prove" our existence at a given point in time, they also demonstrate the impossibility of framing our multiple and fragmented selves. As Linda Haverty Rugg convin...

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Jewish Studies

People Divided Judaism in Contemporary America

Wertheimer Jack

ISBN: PB: 9780874518481, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 1997
287 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This brilliant analysis of American Judaism in the last half of the 20th century won the 1993-94 National Jewish Book Award for the best book on contemporary Jewry and also was named an Outstanding Book of 1993 by Choice. Jack Wertheimer examines how...

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Linguistics

Phonetic Symbol Guide

Pullum Geoffrey K., Ladusaw William A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226685366, ISBN: HB: 9780226685359, University of Chicago Press, July 1996
358 pp., 20.3x13.2 cm, 375 line drawings

"Phonetic Symbol Guide" is a comprehensive and authoritative encyclopedia of phonetic alphabet symbols, providing a complete survey of the hundreds of characters used by linguists and speech scientists to record the sounds of the world's languages....

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Philosophy

Postmodern Platos Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, Derrida

Zuckert Catherine H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226993317, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
358 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Catherine Zuckert examines the work of five key philosophical figures from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through the lens of their own decidedly postmodern readings of Plato. She argues that Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, and Derrid...

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History of Art

Picture Theory Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation

Mitchell W. J. T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226532325, University of Chicago Press, September 1995
462 pp., 23x15 cm, 79 halftones

What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the visual is said to be greater than ever before, and the "pictorial turn" supplants the "linguistic turn" in...

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Photography

Picturing Time The Work of Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904)

Braun Marta

ISBN: PB: 9780226071756, University of Chicago Press, January 1995
472 pp., 24.1x20.8 cm, 270 halftones, 65 line drawings

Etienne-Jules Marey was an inventor whose methods of recording movement revolutionized our way of visualizing time and motion. Best remembered for his chronophotography, Marey constructed a single-camera system that led the way to cinematography".Pic...

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Philosophy

Phenomenology and Deconstruction Volume Two: Method and Imagination

Denoon Cumming Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226123691, ISBN: HB: 9780226123684, University of Chicago Press, January 1993
404 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

"Husserl had captured me, I saw everything in terms of the perspectives of his philosophy", wrote Sartre of his conversion to Husserl's phenomenology. In the present volume Cumming analyzes Sartre's transformation of Husserl's phenomenological method...

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Philosophy

Phenomenology and Deconstruction Volume One: The Dream is Over

Denoon Cumming Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226123677, ISBN: HB: 9780226123660, University of Chicago Press, January 1992
263 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

"Philosophy as... a rigorous science... the dream is over", Edward Husserl once declared. Heidegger (Husserl's successor), Derrida, and Rorty have propounded versions of "the end of philosophy". Cumming argues that what would count as philosophy's co...

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History of Art

Pictures of Romance Form against Context in Painting and Literature

Steiner Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9780226772301, ISBN: HB: 9780226772295, University of Chicago Press, December 1991
225 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 49 halftones

How do pictures tell stories? Why does the literary romance so often refer to paintings and other visual art objects? Beginning with these two seemingly unrelated questions, Wendy Steiner reveals an intricate exchange between the visual arts and the...

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History of Art

Power of Images Studies in the History and Theory of Response

Freedberg David

ISBN: PB: 9780226261461, University of Chicago Press, May 1991
560 pp., 24.6x16.8 cm, 190 halftones

Contents: List of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. The Power of Images: Response and Repression 2. The God in the Image 3. The Value of the Commonplace 4. The Myth of Aniconism 5. Consecration: Making Images Work 6. Image and Pilgrimage 7. The...

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