Archive for 2000-2009
Exhibiting Experimental Art in China
In this book, Wu Hung documents the Smart's exhibition "Canceled", which centered on another exhibition, the canceled It's Me (Beijing, 1998). He contextualizes both projects within current trends in Chinese experimental art. The catalogue also contains a rich collection of primary documents related to eleven other recent exhibitions in China. ... more »Price: $40
The Place of the Antique in Early Modern Europe
This exhibition and its accompanying catalogue endeavor to highlight the various contexts in which antiquity served as an inspiration: from the use of Ovidian myth to influence on religious practices, antiquarian and proto-scientific scholarship, and the papal banquet. The catalogues essays show how antiquity (or a particular historical conception of... more »Price: $22
Pious Journeys: Christian Devotional Art and Practice in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
As a component of one of the Smart's Mellon projects, this catalogue was the culmination of a University of Chicago course on medieval pilgrimage held in conjunction with the exhibition Pious Journeys. Co-written by art history professor Linda Seidel and her students—both graduate and undergraduate—the essays in this catalogue consider... more »Price: $22
The Theatrical Baroque
The late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are frequently labeled the age of theater, and this series of essays investigates the dialogue between the newly invigorated theater and the plastic arts. As a component of one of the Smart's Mellon projects, The Theatrical Baroque features contributions from professor Larry F. Norman... more »Price: $22
Transforming Image: The Art of Silver Horn and His Successors
This exhibition acknowledged the work of the important Kiowa artist Silver Horn (1860–1940), whose life spanned a remarkable period of change on the Southern Plains, from the nomadic existence of Native peoples following huge herds of bison to a new modern world of railroads, highways, and telephones after a brief... more »Price: $45
Ecologies: Mark Dion, Peter Fend, Dan Peterman
Since the 1960s, many artists have incorporated ecological concerns into their work, an endeavor that has required new strategies in art-making. To explore recent American manifestations of these interests, the Smart Museum commissioned new projects from artists Mark Dion, Peter Fend, and Dan Peterman, each focusing on interrelationships between particular... more »Price: $25
See America First: The Prints of H.C. Westermann
This book presents the first comprehensive, scholarly consideration of H. C. Westermann's graphic work and serves as a catalogue raisonné of his prints. Dennis Adrian—a noted critic, curator, and art historian who co-curated this exhibition with Richard A. Born—provides an overview essay examining Westermann's prints in their historical context.... more »Price: $35
Confronting Identities in German Art: Myths, Reactions, Reflections
What does it mean to be German? Recent answers to this question have ranged from the general ("Germans are always the other") to the analytic ("They are a multiple identity with a constant wish for redefinition"). The catalogue for Confronting Identities in German Art turns to art works, artists, and... more »Price: $28
A Well-Fashioned Image: Clothing and Costume in European Art, 1500-1850
Fashion—the question of what to wear and how to wear it—is a centuries-old obsession. Beyond superficial concerns with personal appearance, the history of dress points to deep preoccupations surrounding social order, national identity, and moral decency. A Well-Fashioned Image investigates clothing from these various perspectives. This catalogue features an introduction... more »Price: $22
Dawoud Bey: The Chicago Project
Is it possible for a photographic portrait to rereal anything "real" about its subject? As part of a twelve-week residency, acclaimed photographer Dawoud Bey asked this question of twelve teenagers from schools on Chicago's South Side. This fully illustrated book unpacks the process of Bey's ambitious residency and its products:... more »Price: $25
Two Visionary Brothers: David and Alfred Smart
David and Alfred Smart were the Chicago-based founders of Esquire, launched in 1933. One of the first men's fashion magazines, Esquire was also distinguished by the high quality of its literary and editorial features: the first issue included pieces by Ernest Hemingway, Jon Dos Passos, and Dashiell Hammett. The Smart... more »Price: $12
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China
The massive political, economic, and social changes China has undergone during the past decade have dramatically altered its cultural landscape. The exhibition New Photography from China and its catalogue offer the first comprehensive look at the body of photographic art produced during this period. Often ambitious in scale and experimental... more »Price: $40
Smart Collecting: Acquisitions 1990-2004
The Smart Museum of Art celebrates its thirtieth anniversary with this lively, richly illustrated catalogue of recent acquisitions. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Smart Collecting, the full-color volume is an up-to-date and essential reference to the collection of one of the nation's most innovative university art museums. An essay... more »Price: $30
Paper Museums: The Reproductive Print in Europe, 1500-1800
As relatively inexpensive, transportable, and storable objects, prints occupied an important place in early modern European culture. Many of them reproduced other works of art and we now call them "reproductive" prints. They were often considered to be of lower status than so-called "original" prints, yet in their initial historical... more »Price: $24
Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art
Beyond Green introduces a new generation of international artists who work at the intersection of sustainable design and contemporary art.... more »Price: $25
One/Many: Western American Survey Photographs by Bell and O'Sullivan
Some of the most celebrated images of nineteenth-century American photography emerged from government-sponsored geological surveys whose purpose was to study and document western territories. Timothy H. O'Sullivan and William Bell, two survey photographers who joined expeditions in the 1860s and 1870s, opened the eyes of nineteenth-century Americans to the western... more »Price: $28
Adaptation: Video Installations by Ben-Ner, Herrera, Sullivan, and Sussman & The Rufus Corporation
Adaptation is accompanied by a unique online publication that documents the exhibition through an array of interactive content. This free online catalogue not only offers core information about the exhibition but also presents a series of features that take advantage of the dynamic medium of the web, including: video clips... more »Price: Free
Looking and Listening in Nineteenth-Century France
Audiences in different eras look at art and listen to music in dramatically different ways. During the nineteenth century, the habits and fashions associated with looking and listening changed rapidly. Examining themes of attention and the place of looking and listening in the art of nineteenth-century France, this catalogue features... more »Price: $24
Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art
Displacement continues a series of Smart Museum catalogues produced in conjunction with Wu Hung’s groundbreaking exhibitions of contemporary Chinese art.... more »Price: $30
The 'Writing' of Modern Life: The Etching Revival in France, Britain, and the U.S., 1850-1940
Generously illustrated with works by both well-known and little-known printmakers, The "Writing" of Modern Life examines the intertwined arts of etching and writing, from the polemical beginnings of the Etching Revival in the 1850s to its twentieth-century afterlife. During this period, etching was reinvented as an original art form that—like... more »Price: $20
Heartland
While this publication stems from the Heartland exhibitions at the Van Abbemuseum and the Smart Museum of Art, this book is much more than an art catalogue. Contributors—including novelist Dave Eggers, scholar Hasan Kwame Jeffries, and journalist Rebecca Solnit—explore the region through topics ranging from art to music to urban... more »Price: $30
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