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    Anne Whiston Spirn
    Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange’s Photographs and Reports from the Field
    “In this thoughtful and meticulously researched account of Lange’s career, Spirn focuses on the photographer’s largely unpublished 1939 portfolio and champions it as a masterful mix of the visual and the verbal. Lange’s stark photographs and accompanying field reports testify to her desire to show real Depression-era Americans as honestly as possible.”—Publishers Weekly
    See an illustrated excerpt.

       

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    Erin Hogan
    Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West
    “A smart and winning book.… Casually scrutinizing the artistic works Sun Tunnels, Double Negative, Roden Crater, and Lightning Field while gamely playing up her fish-out-of-water status, Hogan delivers an ingeniously engaging travelogue-cum-art history.”—Atlantic
    Read an excerpt and an interview with the author.

       

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    Albert Boime
    Art in an Age of Civil Struggle, 1848-1871
    “Boime’s now-indispensable erudition and scholarship are always accessible and enjoyable, fostering a sense of the reader’s participation in this art historical journey toward explanations of a social and cultural order increasingly familiar to us now in ours.”—Jonathan Harris, University of Liverpool

       

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    Mark Antliff and Patricia Leighten
    A Cubism Reader: Documents and Criticism, 1906-1914
    “This is an unprecedented treasure trove of sorely needed texts central to the history of cubism—many of which had been difficult to find or to make accessible to students in translation. Moreover, A Cubism Reader makes a double contribution, since Antliff and Leighten’s introduction and commentaries provide incisive interpretations and new insights.”—Linda Dalrymple Henderson, University of Texas at Austin

       

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    Sherry Buchanan
    Mekong Diaries: Viet Cong Drawings and Stories, 1964-1975
    In May 1965, vice president Hubert Humphrey declared that “the Viet Cong has committed the most unbelievable acts of terrorism the world has ever known.” And throughout the long conflict in Vietnam, Americans similarly demonized the North Vietnamese fighters as reds, gooks, and fanatical killers. Offering a radically different view of these supposedly savage soldiers, Mekong Diaries presents never-before-published drawings, poems, letters, and oral histories by ten of the most celebrated Viet Cong war artists.

       

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    Martin Kemp
    The Human Animal in Western Art and Science
    “The animal and the human are not just allegorical companions; Darwin showed how close they really are. … Martin Kemp shows just how powerful the theme is, and how essential it is to Western traditions of art and science. The animal is used to reveal the human, the human to reveal the animal.”—Edward Rothstein, New York Times

       

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    Ashley Gilbertson
    Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer’s Chronicle of the Iraq War
    “Remarkable. An Australian freelancer in his twenties, [Gilbertson] went to northern Iraq before the war and has been going back ever since, mostly on contract for the Times. His new book, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot collects Gilbertson’s four years of work in Iraq … Gilbertson’s pictures from the battle of Falluja … perform the opposite function of the war pornography that Abu Ghraib and Zarqawi gave the world: they give back their subjects the humanity that the war is taking away.”—George Packer, New Yorker
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    Greg Bottoms
    The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art
    “Greg Bottoms likes to take his readers places they’d never go alone: into the mouth of madness in his autobiographical book, Angelhead, and into the world of religion-fueled art brut in The Colorful Apocalypse. Traversing the Southeast, he meets artists and their followers with a strong belief in the Lord and an even stronger one in their artistic abilities. Bottoms is never disdainful of their naive work, but always has one eyebrow raised in surprise and light skepticism.”—Nick Smith, Charleston Post and Courier
    Read an excerpt and an interview with the author.

       

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    Dawn Ades, editor
    The DADA Reader: A Critical Anthology
    "Expanding Dada's reach and placing it in wider context … the new anthology presents dozens of texts that have never been available in English."—Chronicle of Higher Education

       

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    Michele H. Bogart
    The Politics of Urban Beauty: New York and Its Art Commission
    "The Art Commission of the City of New York 'reviews all works of art designed for City property' from benches and streetlamps called street furniture to works of art placed on city buildings' walls as well as in the parks. The history is fascinating and some of the descriptions of the participants fighting with the art commission are hilarious. I recommend The Politics of Urban Beauty. It's easy and delightful reading and you will learn a lot."—Edward I. Koch, former mayor of New York City

       

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    Ingrid D. Rowland
    The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery
    "Rowland skillfully weaves her way through this long-forgotten controversy, framing it within the cultural and political struggles between Rome and Tuscany, and the larger intellectual debates of the period. At every turn she provides fascinating detail about the workings of the scholarly world…In a mere 150 pages…she summons up a world and an age."—William Grimes, New York Times

       

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    W. J. T. Mitchell
    What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images
    "This lively collection of essays is something more than a critical tour of the problematics of contemporary art theory; it is more than a set of pertinent (or impertinent) interventions on a series of current exhibits, films, images of all kinds, more even than a tireless and insistent reproblematization of everybody's work on pictures, images, image society, turning all the new ideas back into questions and more questions. It is also the elaboration of what is surely destined to become an influential new tripartite concept of the object, namely as idol, fetish, and totem."—Fredric Jameson

       

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    June Osborne
    Urbino: The Story of a Renaissance City
    "No words, photos, or flights of imagination can quite prepare you for Urbino, the birthplace of Raphael. Small, but with an immense aura, the town is the legacy of Duke Frederico de Montefeltro, whose twin-towered, red-brick leviathan of a palace is a designer icon of the Renaissance."—David Wickers, Sunday Times

       

    Art, photography, and design

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    The books in this subject catalog are not all the books published by the University of Chicago Press in this field, but only our most recent and important books. We recommend you start with this catalog. For a more extensive listing you may go to the subject index of our complete catalog, or you may search our title database using a subject term. To see just our very latest books (titles released in the last six months) go to our new releases pages.

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