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Roma Resurgens: Papal Medals from the Age of the Baroque
SOLD OUT Papal medals served as great instruments of propaganda during the great Catholic revival following the schism created by the Protestant Reformation. The medals depict on one side a portrait of the current pope, and on the other, an idealized heroic image of a papal act. The images were... more »Price: SOLD OUT
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
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
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
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 '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
The Chicago Imagist Print: Ten Artists' Works, 1958-1987
A Catalogue Raisonné Appearing along with the exhibition Chicago Imagist Print, this catalogue documents the total production of these prints and related posters and printed ephemera for the first time, and establishes a catalogue raisonné of ten artists' printmaking. These artists—Roger Brown, Art Green, Philip Hanson, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt,... more »Price: $25
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
The Documentary Photograph as a Work of Art: American Photographs 1860-1876
This catalogue details the exhibition The Documentary Photograph as a Work of Art. The art and science of photography was utilized during the Civil War and immediately afterwards to report on the progress of military campaigns and westward expansion. Even at this early moment when the purpose of photography was... more »Price: $5
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
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
The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India since 1989
Founded in 1989, the influential Delhi-based organization Sahmat has offered a platform for artists, writers, poets, musicians, and actors to create and present works that promote artistic freedom and secular, egalitarian values. A companion to an exhibition of the same name at the Smart Museum of Art, this book explores... more »Price: $40
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
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
The Tragic Muse: Art and Emotion, 1700-1900
Art is often appreciated for its ability to delight our eyes and refresh our minds. But it can also serve as a powerful vehicle for exploring darker emotions, such as fear, sadness, and grief. And while these themes have an artistic history dating back to the ancients, the ways in... more »Price: $30
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
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
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
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