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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2006)
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Between 1760 and 1800, British aristocrats became preoccupied with the acquisition of ancient Greek and Roman artifacts. From marble busts to intricately painted vases, these antiquities were amassed in vast collections held in country houses ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2006)
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One of the greatest mathematicians and engineers of his day, Simon Stevin (1548-1620) is probably best known for popularizing decimal fractions. But few people know about his interest in architecture, as documented in De Huysbou, ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2006)
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When the British Museum opened its doors more than two centuries ago, scores of visitors waited eagerly outside for a first glimpse of ancient relics from Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Even today, in this age ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2006)
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Meyer Schapiro (1904-96), renowned for his critical essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century painting, also played a decisive role as a young scholar in defining the style of art and architecture known as Romanesque. And, appropriately, ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2006)
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The late eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of intellectual activity in Scotland by such luminaries as David Hume, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, James Boswell, and Robert Burns. And the books written ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2006)
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building has become an icon of modern architecture. And the fact that it was demolished only forty-six years after its 1904 completion makes Jack Quinan's study of the building'which housed a ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2006)
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The Inordinate Eye traces the relations of Latin American painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature-the stories they tell each other and the ways in which their creators saw the world and their place in it. Moving ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2006)
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The September 11 terrorist attacks targeted, in Osama bin Laden's words, 'America's icons of military and economic power.' In The Architecture of Aftermath, Terry Smith argues that it was no accident that these targets were ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2006)
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Waves battering the weathered rocks on a shore, young boys sailing carefree on open waters: Winslow Homer's raw, evocative seascapes are among the most distinctive and powerful in American art. Winslow Homer: Poet of the ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2005)
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The cave paintings and other preserved remnants of Paleolithic peoples shed light on a world little known to us, one so deeply embedded in time that information about it seems unrecoverable. While art historians have ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2005)
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Pottery Analysis is a rich and comprehensive sourcebook that draws together diverse approaches to the study of pottery'archaeological, ethnographic, stylistic, functional, and physicochemical. Using pottery as a starting point for insights into people and culture, ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2005)
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When you think of modern architecture, you think of Chicago, the birthplace of the skyscraper, the cradle of twentieth-century American design, and the home of enduring works by such iconic figures as Louis Sullivan, Ludwig ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2005)
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Erotikon brings together leading contemporary intellectuals from a variety of fields for an expansive debate on the full meaning of eros. Renowned scholars of philosophy, literature, classics, psychoanalysis, theology, and art history join poets and ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2005)
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Art has the power to affect our thinking, changing not only the way we view and interact with the world but also how we create it. In Art in Mind, Ernst van Alphen probes this ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2005)
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On topics ranging through politics, religion, marriage, class, and law, these tales, Enders argues, do the cultural work of all urban legends: they disclose the hopes, fears, and anxieties of their tellers. Each one represents ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2005)
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An opportunity to experience the daily hustle and bustle of life in the late Middle Ages, A Day in a Medieval City provides a captivating dawn-to-dark account of medieval life. A visual trek through the ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2005)
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As relatively inexpensive, transportable, and storable objects, prints occupied an important place in early modern European culture. Many of them reproduced other works of art and we now call them "reproductive" prints. They were often ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2005)
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Perspective determines how we, as viewers, perceive painting. We can convince ourselves that a painting of a bowl of fruit or a man in a room appears to be real by the way these objects ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2005)
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The picture plane of a painting creates boundaries and perspectives. It governs the relationship of daubs of pigment on a canvas to reality, allowing the viewer to connect with the imagined world of a work ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2005)
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One of the first female artists to achieve recognition in her own time, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) became instantly popular in the 1970s when feminist art historians "discovered" her and argued vehemently for a place for ...