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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2005)
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One of the most fascinating aspects of Rembrandt's extraordinary artistic career is his suite of brooding half-length portraits of religious figures from the late 1650s and early 1660s. Painted during a difficult time in the ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2005)
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On December 18, 1499, the Muslims in Granada revolted against the Christian city government's attempts to suppress their rights to live and worship as followers of Islam. Although the Granada riot was a local phenomenon ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2005)
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Poets often have responded vitally to the art of their time, and ever since Susan Stewart began writing about art in the early 1980s, her work has resonated with practicing artists, curators, art historians, and ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2004)
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Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2004)
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Most studies of Indian armor have concentrated on Mughal arms from northern India, and there has been no serious study of Hindu arms since the nineteenth century. Robert Elgood seeks to fill this scholarly gap ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2004)
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Art for art's sake. Art created in pursuit of personal expression. In Art in an Age of Counterrevolution, Albert Boime rejects these popular modern notions and suggests that history--not internal drive or expressive urge--as the ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2004)
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Building the South Side explores the struggle for influence that dominated the planning and development of Chicago's South Side during the Progressive Era. Robin F. Bachin examines the early days of the University of Chicago, ...
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2003)
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In the 1890s, a proofreader at the University of Chicago Press prepared a single sheet of typographic fundamentals intended as a guide for the University community. That sheet grew into a pamphlet, and the pamphlet ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2003)
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Ready-Made Democracy explores the history of men's dress in America to consider how capitalism and democracy emerged at the center of American life during the century between the Revolution and the Civil War. Michael Zakim ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2003)
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Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828) has long been recognized as the greatest European portrait sculptor of the late eighteenth century. Whether sculpting a head of state or a young child, Houdon had an uncanny ability to capture ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2003)
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American art of the 1980s is as misunderstood as it is notorious. Critics of the time feared that market hype and self-promotion threatened the integrity of art. They lashed out at contemporary art, questioning the ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2003)
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Rembrandt's Jews puts this myth to the test as it examines both the legend and the reality of Rembrandt's relationship to Jews and Judaism. Steven Nadler leads us on an engrossing tour of Jewish Amsterdam, ...
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2003)
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In the late nineteenth century, Chicago was a commercial colossus, a city growing more quickly than New York, flooded with industrial money and brassy confidence but ravaged by great income disparities, dangerously lax health standards, ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2003)
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When the magnificent Auditorium Building opened on Chicago's Michigan Avenue in December 1889, it marked Chicago's emergence both as the leading city of the Midwest and as a metropolis of international stature. In this lavishly ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2003)
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Subjects:
·Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
·Middle Eastern Studies
·Political Science: Political and Social Theory
·Political Science: Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, and International Relations
·History: Middle Eastern History
Religion: Islam ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2002)
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This collection shows Islam to be a diverse set of variable practices and beliefs shaped by region, nation, ethnicity, sect, and class, as well as by responses to many cultural and economic processes. In examining ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2002)
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Architect, designer, and theorist Josef Frank (1885-1967) was known throughout Europe in the 1920s as one of the continent's leading modernists. Yet despite his tremendous contributions to the development of modernism, Frank has been largely ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2002)
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From Dada to the Automatists, and from Max Ernst to André Breton, Gérard Durozoi provides the most comprehensive and fascinating history of the Surrealist movement. Tracing the movement from its origins in the 1920s to ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2000)
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Medieval art survives today as fragments of larger works, usually displayed by historical period, geographic location, artistic medium, or iconographic theme. Fragmented Devotion is the first exhibition to explore the meanings these fragments have in ...
