Exhibitions Archived in: 1998

Archibald Knox (1864-1933), Liberty of London Designer and Master of British Art Nouveau

February 12 - April 19, 1998

Archibald Knox is one of the most influential designers in modern British history. Between 1897 and 1912, his blending of Celtic design with modern aesthetics and manufacturing processes cam to define British Art Nouveau. At the same time, Knox helped the Liberty and Co. department store, which marketed his designs,... more »

Jerome Carlin: Autobiographical Paintings

April 9 - June 14, 1998

Part of the Smart Museum’s alumni artists series, this was an exhibition of paintings by Jerome Carlin (Ph.D. 156, Sociology). Carlin’s works focus on the experience of growing up in the upper-middle-class milieu of Chicago in the 1930s and 1940s.... more »

The Sublime and the Fantastic - African Art from the Faletti Family Collection

May 14 - June 28, 1998

This exhibition explored the range and depth of African artistic sensibility through 75 works of sub-Saharan art dating from the sixteenth to early twentieth centuries. Drawing on African concepts, the contemplative quality of the sublime was illustrated by emblems of leadership, divination materials, and masterworks of devotional worship made from... more »

Felix Nussbaum: Assimulation and Dissimulation

May 21 - August 30, 1998

This project was mounted by the Smart Museum as part of the Field Museum’s city-wide programming in conjunction with the exhibition Assignment: Rescue, the Story of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee (organized by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.). The exhibition featured the Smart Museum’s rare,... more »

Get Out: Nine Artists from Midway Studios, University of Chicago

July 16 – August 9, 1998

This exhibition presented work by nine students graduating from the University of Chicago’s Midway Studios. The culmination of two years as Master of Fine Arts students, Get Out represented a variety of concerns of the studio art department. It also reflected the pluralism of contemporary artistic practice: the use of... more »

Recent Acquisitions: Modern and Contemporary Art

August 25–18 October 1998

This intimate exhibition showcased twentieth-century works acquired by the Smart Museum since 1996. It featured paintings and sculpture by Robert Barnes, Robert Colescott, Joseph Goto, Red Grooms, Miyoko Ito, Edward Keinholz, and David Smith, many of which had not previously been on public view. The exhibition addressed the cultural, regional,... more »

Blunt Object

September 11 - October 25, 1998

Blunt Object offered a humorous and fresh look at contemporary sculpture. The exhibition featured both well-known and emerging artists from Europe and the United States, and explored a recent shift in object making from the large-scale and heroic to the vernacular, spunky, and blatant. The exhibition included Aaron Baker, John... more »

Weimar Bodies: Fantasies About the Body in Weimar Art, Science and Medicine

November 4, 1998 – January 10, 1999

Weimar Bodies brought together art works and other kinds of images to explore the range of popular ideas about the human body in Weimar German and to provide a sense of how the short-lived Weimar Republic (1919–1933) saw itself. The exhibition placed images of the body within a broad cultural... more »

Space/Sight/Self

November 19, 1998 – January 10, 1999

This exhibition addressed contemporary portraiture as the nexus of three issues: visuality, location, and identity. It 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... more »

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