Exhibitions Archived in: 1992

Imagining an Irish Past: The Celtic Revival, 1840-1940

5 February–16 June 1992

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 »

Depth Studies: Illustrated Anatomies from Vesalius to Vicq d'Azyr

17 March–7 June 1992

In conjunction with the University of Chicago’s centennial celebration symposium, Imaging the Body: Art and Science in Modern Culture, and Professor Barbara Maria Stafford’s seminar Depth Studies, the Smart Museum has compiled nearly 20 illustrated anatomy texts from the 16th through the 20th centuries. The exhibition explores the diverse ways... more »

Jene Highstein: Drawings

16 June–23 August 1992

Early in his career, Jene Highstein was influenced by use of inexpensive or found materials promoted by the Italian Arte Povera movement. His early work was made in cement and steel, materials that require building up, which made the artist’s process an additive one. When Highstein later began to work... more »

MFA Show 1992

9 July–30 August 1992

The MFA exhibition at the Smart Museum offers Chicago audiences a preview of a new generation of artists. Three of the four graduates included in this exhibition, Paul Coffey, Philip T. Matsikas, and Paula Melvin, are installation artists and will present distillations of their MFA thesis shows. The fourth graduate,... more »

The Gray City Unbuilt: Architectural Proposals for the University of Chicago

1 September–6 December 1992

The University of Chicago’s exterior has undergone multiple transformations over its century-long existence. These transformations were the subject of the Smart Museum’s exhibition of Fall 1991, The Gray City: Architectural Drawings of the University of Chicago. Equally interesting, however, are the designs of buildings that for one reason or other,... more »

Visual Poetry: Brossa/Parra

6 October–13 December 1992

Following in the tradition of such avant-garde artists as Marcel Duchamp and Meret Oppenheim, Catalan artist Joan Brossa and Chilean Nicanor Parra break down boundaries between language and image, mixing genres and combining media to arrive at new forms of expression. Though Brossa and Parra come from different cultural and... more »

Lyonel Feininger

15 December 1992–28 February 1993

American-born early modernist artist Lyonel Feininger is remembered as a leading member of German Expressionism. His illustrations in the 1890s and the early 1900s for German and American newspapers and journals, including the Chicago Tribune, are well known, and the impact of this commercial art on contemporaneous independent paintings, drawings,... more »

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