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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2012)
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On August 4, 1578, in an ill-conceived attempt to wrest Morocco back from the hands of the infidel Moors, King Sebastian of Portugal led his troops to slaughter and was himself slain. Sixteen years later, ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2012)
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Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851) was a true nineteenth-century visionary-a painter, printmaker, set designer, entrepreneur, inventor, and pioneer of photography. Though he was widely celebrated beyond his own lifetime for his invention of the daguerreotype, ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2012)
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In Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam, Jacob Lassner examines the triangular relationship that during the Middle Ages defined'and continues to define today'the political and cultural interaction among the three Abrahamic faiths. Lassner looks ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2012)
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In the years immediately following Napoleon's defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2011)
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In September 1644 the election of Pope Innocent X Pamphilj catapulted his family to the height of Roman society. From that moment on, the Pamphilj became active patrons of the arts, which were harnessed as ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2011)
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In a suburb just north of Philadelphia stands Beth Sholom Synagogue, Frank Lloyd Wright's only synagogue and among his finest religious buildings. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 2007, Beth Sholom was one of Wright's ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2011)
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Many studies have shown that images-their presence in the daily lives of the faithful, the means used to control them, and their adaptation to secular uses-were at the heart of the Reformation crisis in northern ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2011)
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As part of a raft of neoliberal economic reforms in the early 1990s, Brazilian president Fernando Collor de Mello and Argentine president Carlos Menem eliminated long-standing state financial support for cinema. National film production, distribution, ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2011)
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Although fossils have provided some of the most important evidence for evolution, the discipline of paleontology has not always had a central place in evolutionary biology. Beginning in Darwin's day, and for much of the ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2010)
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Fundamentally different from other more prominent, Jewish traditions and experiences, the Sephardic tradition has long served to bind together the various Jewish communities of the Mediterranean basin. In The Sephardic Legacy, Henry Toledano immerses readers ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2010)
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For nearly twenty years now, Blair Kamin of the Chicago Tribune has explored how architecture captures our imagination and engages our deepest emotions. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism and writer of the ...
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2010)
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"In these truly beautiful images, Stanley Greenberg deftly realizes one of Louis Kahn''s most iconic insights: that a building is at its most sublime at two moments-when it is under construction, and when it is ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2009)
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Europe's formative encounter with its 'others' is still widely assumed to have come with its discovery of the peoples of the New World. But, as Jonathan Boyarin argues, long before 1492 Christian Europe imagined itself ...
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2009)
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Impressively researched, splendidly illustrated, and beautifully written, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury's Chicago 1890: The Skyscraper and the Modern City offers a truly fresh reconsideration of the nature and significance of Chicago's iconic turn-of-the-century tall buildings. By focusing ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2009)
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Unwilling to accept the anachronistic nature of these claims, Perkinson both resists and complicates grand narratives of portraiture art that ignore historical context. Focusing on the Valois court of France, he argues that local practice ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2008)
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In 1540 Antonio Lafreri, a native of Besançon transplanted to Rome, began publishing maps and other printed images that depicted major monuments and antiquities in Rome. These prints-of statues and ruined landscapes, inscriptions and ornaments, ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2008)
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With radical formal innovations that scandalized the European art world, cubism revolutionized modern art and opened the path toward pure abstraction. Documenting the first heady years of this profoundly influential movement, A Cubism Reader presents ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2007)
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During a pivotal point in Spanish history, aristocrat María de Guevara (?-1683) produced two extraordinary essays that appealed for strong leadership, protested political corruption, and demanded the inclusion of women in the court's decision making. ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2007)
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Enlightenment inquiries into the weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions. British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment reveals how a new sense ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2007)
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The Enlightenment was the age in which the world became modern, challenging tradition in favor of reason, freedom, and critical inquiry. While many aspects of the Enlightenment have been rigorously scrutinized'its origins and motivations, its ...