Master Prints from Landfall Press

This catalogue details the exhibition Master Prints from Landfall Press, specifically focusing on the etchings, aquatints, and lithographs of Landfall Press artists, including Robert Arneson, Ed Paschke, William Wiley, Christo, Philip Pearlstein, and Jack Tworkov. This catalogues also features a forward by Edward A. Maser.... more »

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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 »

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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 »

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Photographs by Aaron Siskind in Homage to Franz Kline

In his work, Aaron Siskind explores the importance of friendship between individuals as well as the larger concept of communication within the artistic community. As a result of his personal friendship with and aesthetic influence from Franz Kline, Siskind uses media such as broken walls and flaking plaster to achieve... more »

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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 »

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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 »

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