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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2015)
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Though the practical value of maps during the sixteenth century is well documented, their personal and cultural importance has been relatively underexamined. In Worldly Consumers, Genevieve Carlton explores the growing availability of maps to private ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2015)
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The Courtiers' Anatomists is about dead bodies and live animals in Louis XIV's Paris--and the surprising links between them. Examining the practice of seventeenth-century anatomy, Anita Guerrini reveals how anatomy and natural history were connected ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2015)
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At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch had termed a 'crumbling city' populated by 'broken ruins' into a prosperous Christian ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2015)
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Aging and creativity can seem a particularly fraught relationship for artists, who often face age-related difficulties as their audience's expectations are at a peak. In Four Last Songs, Linda and Michael Hutcheon explore this issue ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2015)
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In the art world, replicas are typically thought to be of low value. However skillfully created, they remain in the eyes of many mere copies, pointing toward an original of greater significance. In recent years, ...
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2014)
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Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography is a major rewriting and expansion of Franz Schulze's acclaimed 1985 biography, the first full treatment of the master German-American modern architect. Coauthored with architect Edward Windhorst, this ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2014)
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Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. In Neighboring Faiths, David Nirenberg ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2014)
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Communities of Style examines the production and circulation of portable luxury goods throughout the Levant in the early Iron Age (1200-600 BCE). In particular it focuses on how societies in flux came together around the ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2014)
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This volume coins the term 'Team 10 East' as a conceptual tool to discuss the work of Team 10 members and fellow travelers from state-socialist countries'such as Oskar Hansen of Poland, Charles Polónyi of Hungary, ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2014)
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Natural history in the eighteenth century was many things to many people'diversion, obsession, medically or economically useful knowledge, spectacle, evidence for God's providence and wisdom, or even the foundation of all natural knowledge. Because natural ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2014)
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Over the past two decades, the arts in America have experienced an unprecedented building boom, with more than sixteen billion dollars directed to the building, expansion, and renovation of museums, theaters, symphony halls, opera houses, ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2013)
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Homer in Print traces the print transmission and literary reception of the Iliad and the Odyssey from the fifteenth through the twentieth century. Over 175 mini essays provide new details of each included edition's textual, ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2013)
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With the birth of film came the birth of a revolutionary visual language. This new, unique vocabulary'the cut, the fade, the dissolve, the pan, and a new idea of movement gave not only artists but ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2013)
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Charles Marville (1813-79) is widely acknowledged as one of the most talented photographers of the nineteenth century. Accompanying a major retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery of Art to honor Marville's bicentennial, Charles Marville: Photographer ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2013)
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In late seventeenth-century London, the most provocative images were produced not by artists, but by scientists. Magnified fly-eyes drawn with the aid of microscopes, apparitions cast on laboratory walls by projection machines, cut-paper figures revealing ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2013)
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No society is without crime, prompting Nathaniel Hawthorne's narrator to make his famous statement in The Scarlet Letter that, however high its hopes are, no civilization can fail to allot a portion of its soil ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2013)
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Bustles. Tight-laced Corsets. Caged crinolines that encased the hapless wearer in hoops of steel. Why would anyone want to wear such things? Yet, you can be certain that no lady of the Victorian upper class ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2013)
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The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, ...
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2013)
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Louis I. Kahn (1901-74) was one of the foremost architects in America during the twentieth century. His notable buildings include the Yale Study Center; the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California; and the Exeter Library ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2013)
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In Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images, Edward Dimendberg offers the first comprehensive treatment of one of the most imaginative contemporary design studios. Since founding their practice in 1979, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio ...
