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Product Description: The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography explores the vast international scope of twentieth-century photography and explains that history with a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary manner. This unique approach covers the aesthetic history of photography as an evolving art and documentary form, while also recognizing it as a developing technology and cultural force...read more

Product Description: The catalogue raisonné consists of the entire exhibition catalogue described above, as well as 400 entries with full scholarly documentation, resulting in an invaluable resource for scholars, dealers, and collectors. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Amazon.com Review: H.C. Westermann's sculptures and constructions follow no models and are unique in modern American art. Direct, simple objects that achieve great sophistication and subtlety, they make profound comments on society and the human condition without being overtly burdened by theory...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Chicago artist Tony Fitzpatrick--who is also a character actor, former boxer and radio disc jockey--creates colorful and intriguing works that layer imagery from his Chicago childhood, advertising, comic books, and science and nature texts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A photographic innovator and conceptual artist, Robert Heinecken played an important role in the development of contemporary art practice. That role is critically assessed in this exhibition catalog, which accompanies a major traveling retrospective organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This survey examines the work of 150 artists who have either lived or worked in Chicago, and ranges from painting, sculpture, photography and drawing to film, video and performance art. Essays by a range of art critics and historians consider the institutions, movements, attitudes and ideas that have shaped Chicago over the past 50 years, while over 170 colour reproductions are set amid a running timeline of historical events in both Chicago and beyond...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This survey examines the work of 150 artists who have either lived or worked in Chicago, and ranges from painting, sculpture, photography and drawing to film, video and performance art. Essays by a range of art critics and historians consider the institutions, movements, attitudes and ideas that have shaped Chicago over the past 50 years, while over 170 colour reproductions are set amid a running timeline of historical events in both Chicago and beyond...read more