Exhibitions Archived in: 2005

Shepherds and Plowhands: Work and Leisure in the Nineteenth Century

Shepherds and Plowhands: Work and Leisure in the Nineteenth Century

January 18 – April 24, 2005

The vast economic and social changes of the Industrial Revolution dramatically transformed the long-held ways of country and village life: centralizing resources in city environments, changing people's occupations, and ultimately refacing the bucolic landscape. Whether documenting true habits of rural life or nostalgically returning to pastoral themes of an... more »

Paper Museums: The Reproductive Print in Europe, 1500-1800

Paper Museums: The Reproductive Print in Europe, 1500-1800

February 3 – May 15, 2005

As relatively inexpensive, transportable, and storable objects, prints had an important place in the culture of Renaissance and Baroque Europe. Well before the era of photography and digital images, a variety of print techniques revolutionized the ways in which images could be reproduced and circulated. Reproductive prints—prints that reproduce... more »

Jacques Callot and the Etched Series

Jacques Callot and the Etched Series

February 8 – April 3, 2005

The endlessly inventive etchings of Jacques Callot (1592–1635) make him one of the most important printmakers of the early seventeenth century, or indeed of any period. Whether turning his eye and hand to the devastating wars that plagued his era or to more picturesque and fanciful subjects, he produced... more »

Objects of History: The Boone Collection of Japanese Art

Objects of History: The Boone Collection of Japanese Art

April 9 – June 12, 2005

Often in exhibitions of cultural and historical materials some objects are designated as "art" (e.g. paintings and prints) and others as "material culture" (e.g. textiles and shoes). This intimate exhibition drew from more than 3,500 Japanese objects in the Boone Collection of the Field Museum in Chicago—traditionally a place... more »

Quiet Revolutions: Modernizing Traditional Art in East Asia

May 10 – November 6, 2005

The twentieth century was a period of extraordinary social and political transformation throughout East Asia. In the wake of an intense period of foreign domination and Western influence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many artists throughout East Asia struggled to reconcile the mounting tension between time honored... more »

Centers and Edges: Modern Ceramic Design and Sculpture, 1880-1980

Centers and Edges: Modern Ceramic Design and Sculpture, 1880-1980

June 2 – September 18, 2005

Humble in origin, clay is one of the oldest and most enduring of all artistic mediums. Starting in the late 19th century, American and European artists—inspired by non-Western traditions and framed by the context of social reform—reimagined the potential of this simple material. Over the next 100 years studio... more »

Syncopation: André Lhote, Louis Marcoussis, and the Cubist Print

Syncopation: André Lhote, Louis Marcoussis, and the Cubist Print

June 18 – September 11, 2005

Following the innovative years before World War I when Pablo Picasso and George Braque introduced the Cubist pictorial language into graphic media, Cubist prints became less experimental and more elaborate in design and execution. Frequently, these later prints emphasize sophisticated techniques and subtleties of printing. Less studied than the... more »

The Poetry of Shijo Surimono

The Poetry of Shijo Surimono

September 17 – December 11, 2005

Celebrating the sophisticated literary and artistic culture of nineteenth-century Japan, the social elite of the day commissioned artists and publishers to create costly and intricate prints called surimono. While the Shijo surimono made in Kyoto and Osaka have not received nearly the attention and examination of their Edo (modern... more »

Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art

Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art

October 6, 2005 – January 15, 2006

Sustainable design attempts to meet the needs of the present without compromising those of future generations. Balancing environmental, social, economic, and aesthetic concerns, sustainable design has the potential to transform everyday life and is being enacted around the world in large and small ways not only by architects and... more »

Whose Land?: European and American Landscapes, 1600-1900

Whose Land?: European and American Landscapes, 1600-1900

November 22, 2005 – April 23, 2006

Nothing could be more fundamental to a country's identity than the territory it occupies. Accordingly, artists' renderings of landscape highlight recognizable sites, distinctive topography, or natural beauty. However, landscape styles have never stayed within geographic boundaries. For example, Rome, as the unrivaled center for artistic training over several centuries,... more »

Collecting for the Cause: Activist Art in the 1960s and '70s

Collecting for the Cause: Activist Art in the 1960s and '70s

December 17, 2005 – March 12, 2006

In the 1960s and early '70s, many American artists actively questioned the artist's role and responsibility in the public sphere. As they sought political relevance for their work, the relatively easy duplication and dissemination of works on paper made printmaking a choice medium. Selections from two portfolios of prints—one... more »

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