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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2013)
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In the late Middle Ages, Europe saw the rise of one of its most virulent myths: that Jews abused the eucharistic bread as a form of anti-Christian blasphemy, causing it to bleed miraculously. The allegation ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2013)
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While some call it the Second City, Chicago is no stranger to the silver screen. Director Christopher Nolan transformed Chicago into the darkly foreboding Gotham City for The Dark Knight. Ferris Bueller rode a parade ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2013)
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This book explores the rich history of films that have used the floating city as evocative backdrop and integral character. Few cities are as densely packed with picturesque cinematic locations. Extensively illustrated with maps, film ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2013)
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The public spaces and buildings of the United States are home to many thousands of timepieces - bells, time balls, and clock faces - that tower over urban streets, peek out from lobbies, and gleam ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2013)
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In this anthology, Vincent Barletta, Mark L. Bajus, and Cici Malik treat the Iberian lyric in the late Middle Ages and early modernity as a deeply multilingual, transnational genre that needs to break away from ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2013)
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Bringing together contributors from dance, theater, visual studies, and art history, Perform, Repeat, Record addresses the conundrum of how live art is positioned within history. Set apart from other art forms in that it may ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2013)
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Offering a new perspective on global trade relations during the Age of Exploration, Portugal, Jesuits, and Japan explores the relationships between Portuguese merchants, Jesuits, and the Japanese during the nanban period (1543-1614). Created to accompany ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2013)
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"Good exhibition design promotes thought and feeling through the creation of an emotionally charged space-an environment that engulfs visitors, pulls them forward, and draws them into the story and its meaning," writes Tom Klobe in ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2012)
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In this dazzling multidisciplinary tour of Mexico City, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo focuses on the period 1880 to 1940, the decisive decades that shaped the city into what it is today.
Through a kaleidoscope of expository ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2012)
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Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2012)
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"Impeccably researched and grippingly told, Andrés Mario Zervigón's John Heartfield and the Agitated Image presents a fundamentally new picture of the German photomontage pioneer: as an artist who took his cues from Hollywood starlets just ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2012)
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First established 150 years ago, Chicago Sinai is one of America's oldest Reform Jewish congregations. Its founders were upwardly mobile and civically committed men and women, founders and partners of banks and landmark businesses like ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2012)
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?' Asked by the early Christian Tertullian, the question was vigorously debated in the nineteenth century. While classics dominated the intellectual life of Europe, Christianity still prevailed and conflicts ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2012)
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Because of their spectacular, naturalistic pictures of plants and the human body, Leonhart Fuchs's De historia stirpium and Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica are landmark publications in the history of the printed book. But ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2012)
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From Death of a Cyclist to Open Your Eyes to The Limits of Control, Madrid has graced the big screen countless times across a wide variety of genres enacted by a similarly eclectic array of ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2012)
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The term Neo-Dada surfaced in New York in the late 1950s and was used to characterize young artists like Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns whose art appeared at odds with the serious emotional and painterly ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2012)
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From Head-On to Murder on the Orient Express, World Film Locations: Istanbul offers a compelling look at the many films shot on location in this multicultural metropolis on the Black Sea. Central to this volume ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2012)
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A much-anticipated harbinger of spring, the cherry blossom is also exemplary of the Japanese artistic aesthetic-a delight in simple, natural beauty and an attentiveness to the changing seasons. This spring will mark the centennial of ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2012)
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Authoring the Past surveys medieval Catalan historiography, shedding light on the emergence and evolution of historical writing and autobiography in the Middle Ages, on questions of authority and authorship, and on the links between history ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2012)
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Whether the fossil record should be read at face value or whether it presents a distorted view of the history of life is an argument seemingly as old as many fossils themselves. In the late ...