Archive for 1990-1999
A Guide to the Collection
Published on the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of the Smart Museum of Art, this handsome volume documents the rapid emergence of one of America's leading university collections. The book celebrates no only the Museum's acquisitions of major art, including those previously collected by the University itself since its founding... more »Price: $25
Imagining an Irish Past: The Celtic Revivial 1840-1940
Following the discovery of the Early Christian Ardagh Chalice, Cross of Cong, and the Tara Brooch, a renewed sense of patriotism and national identity arose in Ireland and inspired numerous contemporary copies of Irish treasures. These works reached the middle classes when retailers such as Liberty’s of London, Tiffany’s, and... more »Price: $27.50
The German Print Portfolio 1890-1930: Serials for a Private Sphere
Despite its importance among Symbolist, Naturalist, Expressionist, and New-Objectivity printmakers in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Germany and Austria, the print portfolio as an art form has never been examined comprehensively in an English-language publication. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, this volume begins its examination... more »Price: $29.95
Lyonel Feininger: Awareness, Recollection and Nostalgia
This catalogue for the exhibition Lyonel Feininger: Awareness, Recollection and Nostalgia focuses on Feininger's fabrication of a private world founded in a highly personal reconstruction of memory and experience. In particular, Feininger's early works represent the fantasies of a distant though unspecified German past and correspond to immigrant recollections of... more »Price: $7.95
The Stage is All the World: The Theatrical Designs of Tanya Moisewitsch
This catalog offers several essays celebrating the life and work of Tanya Moisewitsch, who changed the theatrical world for generations to come. By sculpting theatrical space in a way that emphasized the actors' relationship to each other and to the audience, she sharpened the focus on the text. Influenced by... more »Price: $29.95
Post-Pop, Post-Pictures
This catalog illustrates the works of 11 young abstract painters from Chicago, New York, and Texas, included in the Smart Museum's 1997 exhibition Post-Pop, Post-Pictures. The exhibition demonstrated the shift in abstraction away from the heroic brushwork and emotional concerns first expressed in the 1950s to painting that is more... more »Price: $10
From Blast to Pop: Aspects of Modern British Art, 1915-1965
Coinciding with the Smart Museum's exhibition From Blast to Pop, this catalogue features works by important British avant-garde artists such as Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and William Turnbull. The show explored the period between two defining movements in English Modernism: Vorticism (England's first abstract art movement) and British Pop art... more »Price: $29.95
Literary Objects: Flaubert
This publication documents the exhibition Literary Objects: Flaubert, shown at the Smart Museum in the spring of 1995. Organized by Philippe Desan, Professor of Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Chicago, and his graduate and undergraduate students, Literary Objects explored the concept of the commodity as seen through... more »Price: $9.95
Weimar Bodies: Fantasies about the Body in Weimar Art, Science, and Medicine
While German art in the 1920s is not unique in its representational qualities and meanings, it does exemplify a particular moment in which we can identify continuities and re-readings of the body in Western culture. Weimar citizens were left with questions about their new identity and place within the world,... more »Price: $7.95
Still More Distant Journeys: The Artistic Emigrations of Lasar Segall
The first major U.S. retrospective of the work of Lasar Segall, Still More Distant Journeys explores the artist's changing cultural and artistic identities as demonstrated in more than 224 works, including paintings, watercolors, prints, drawings, and ephemera. Lasar Segall is considered a key figure in the development of both German... more »Price: $39.95
The Classical Collection
This catalogue presents a representative selection of the approximately 800 antiquities at the Smart Museum, with a historiographical introduction that traces the formation of the collection in relationship to the pedagogical ideals of the university and the interests of single members of the faculty. Some of the objects have been... more »Price: $40
Blunt Object
This book features both well-known and emerging artists from Europe and the United States, and explores a recent shift in object making from the large-scale and heroic to the vernacular, spunky, and blatant. Blunt Object features artist bios and color reproductions of sculpture by Aaron Baker, John Beech, Mark Cole,... more »Price: $8
Looking to Learn
This book accompanied the exhibition organized by graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in the University of Chicago's course "Visual Pedagogies". Under the direction of Professors Linda Seidel and Katherine Taylor, students researched the history of the University by addressing the ways in which objects, artifacts, and images have been collected,... more »Price: $12
Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century
This catalog accompanied the 1999 groundbreaking exhibition documenting major trends in current Chinese experimental art. Like the exhibition, the catalog presents the paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos, and installations in three thematically linked sections: "Demystification," "Ruins," and "Transience." The twenty-one featured artists come from different parts of mainland China or are... more »Price: $40
Space/Sight/Self
This catalog, along with the exhibition, was the culmination of a University of Chicago interdisciplinary course in art, art history, and gender studies that investigated the practices, paradigms, and aesthetics of contemporary portraiture. The course also explored the role of seeing in knowledge production, identity formation, and visual education. Space/Sight/Self... more »Price: $12
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