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Pages: 387
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Pages: 300
Authors: Darby English
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-20 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In this book, art historian Darby English explores the year 1971, when two exhibitions opened that brought modernist painting and sculpture into the burning hea
Artificial Darkness
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Authors: Noam M. Elcott
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-30 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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This ambitious study explores how important darkness--artificial darkness--was, as an actual technology, in producing not just photographs but visual novelties
Among Others
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To Describe a Life
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From the civil rights movement to Black Lives Matter, issues of race, representation, and violence inform this interrogation of art and its necessity in times o