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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2018)
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About a millennium ago, in Cairo, an unknown author completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, this book guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2018)
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eo Steinberg was one of the most original and daring art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretative risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. I n essays and lectures that ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2018)
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We have become used to looking at art from a stance of detachment. In order to be objective, we create a 'mental space' between ourselves and the objects of our investigation, separating internal and external ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2018)
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In the West, we tend to think of Islamic law as an arcane and rigid legal system, bound by formulaic texts yet suffused by unfettered discretion. While judges may indeed refer to passages in the ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2017)
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During the mid-twentieth century, Latin American artists working in several different cities radically altered the nature of modern art. Reimagining the relationship of art to its public, these artists granted the spectator an unprecedented role ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2017)
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From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody period of international expansion in the Caribbean. A host of financial ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2017)
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Located northeast of Damascus, in an oasis surrounded by palms and two mountain ranges, the ancient city of Palmyra has the aura of myth. According to the Bible, the city was built by Solomon. Regardless ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2017)
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Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three interlocking steps: first, an intellectual history of the concept of Latin America in its natural historical habitat'mid-nineteenth-century redefinitions of empire and the cultural, political, and economic intellectualism; second, a ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2017)
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Cuban painter Rafael Soriano (1920-2015) was an acclaimed master of geometric abstraction and a global figure in the twentieth-century art world'his work resonated with such international artists of Latin American origin as Roberto Matta, Rufino ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2017)
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As an aesthetic ideal, classicism is often associated with a conventional set of rules founded on supposedly timeless notions such as order, reason, and decorum. As a result, it is sometimes viewed as rigid, outdated, ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2017)
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Images play a key role in political communication and the ways we come to understand the power structures that shape society. Nowhere is this more evident than in the process of empire building, in which ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2016)
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Beyond Words accompanies a collaborative exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Harvard University's Houghton Library; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Featuring illuminated manuscripts from nineteen Boston-area institutions, this catalog provides a ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2016)
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Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and aurochs in ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2016)
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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.
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2015)
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No pictorial device in nineteenth-century French painting more clearly represented the free-ranging self than the loose brushstroke. From the romantics through the impressionists and post-impressionists, the brushstroke bespoke autonomous artistic individuality and freedom from convention.
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2015)
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Since that ancient day when the first human drew a line connecting Point A to Point B, maps have been understood as one of the most essential tools of communication. Despite differences in language, appearance, ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2015)
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In the digital age, photography confronts its future under the competing signs of ubiquity and obsolescence. While technology has allowed amateurs and experts alike to create high-quality photographs in the blink of an eye, new ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2015)
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The Master of the Trebon Altarpiece was a painter active in Prague in the fourteenth century and one of the most important gothic artists of the international style. He is named for his most famous ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2015)
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Though largely out of the public eye for more than a century, Gustave Caillebotte (1848-94) has come to be recognized as one of the most dynamic and original artists of the impressionist movement in Paris. ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2015)
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In Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age, Elizabeth A. Sutton explores the fascinating but previously neglected history of corporate cartography during the Dutch Golden Age, from ca. 1600 to 1650. She examines how ...
