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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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