Abstract Expressionism: A Tribute to Harold Rosenberg. Paintings and Drawings from Chicago Collections

Introduction by Saul Bellow ©1979

48 pages. $4.00

Adaptation: Video Intallations by Ben-Ner, Herrera, Sullivan, and Sussman & The Rufus Corporation

Stephanie Smith, with critical responses by Nell Andrew, Darby English, Flaminia Gennari, Tom Gunning, Mark Hansen, Matthew Jackson, Eric Slauter, and Rebecca Zorach.

http://adaptation.uchicago.edu

Adaptation is accompanied by a unique online publication that documents the exhibition through an array of interactive content. This online catalogue not only offers core information about the exhibition but also presents a series of features that take advantage of the dynamic medium of the web, including: video clips of the works, a public discussion forum, a behind-the-scenes image archive, and a series of critical responses by scholars with connections to the University of Chicago.

This exhibition is supported by the Office of the Provost and the Arts Council, University of Chicago, the Feitler Family Fund, Larry and Marilyn Fields, Susan and Lewis Manilow, Dirk Denison, and the members and friends of the Smart Museum.

Alderman Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery

Introduction by Richard W. Hutton ©1978

55 pages. $3.00

Alumni Who Collect I: Drawings from the 16th Century to the Present

Forward by Edward Maser ©1982

78 pages. $3.00

Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China

Wu Hung and Christopher Phillips, artist interviews by Melissa Chiu, Lisa Corrin, and Stephanie Smith ©2004

Hardcover, 224 pages, 75 color plates, 40 halftone illustrations. $40.00

The massive political, economic, and social changes China has undergone during the past decade have dramatically altered its cultural landscape. The exhibition New Photography from China and its catalogue offer the first comprehensive look at the body of photographic art produced during this period. Often ambitious in scale and experimental in nature, the works featured in New Photography From China encompass a wide range of highly individual responses to these unprecedented transformations.

Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art

Stephanie Smith and Victor Margolin, with a Foreword by Anthony Hirschel and Judith Olch Richards, and artist interviews by Stephanie Smith ©2005.

Paper, 160 pages, illustrated in color throughout, $25.00.

Click here for an online (PDF) version. Please be aware that the images in this PDF are web-quality. In the name of being green, we hope you will enjoy viewing it online.

Balancing environmental, ethical, economic, and aesthetic concerns, sustainable design has the potential to transform everyday life and has already dramatically reshaped the practice of architecture. Beyond Green introduces a new generation of international artists who work at the intersection of sustainable design and contemporary art.

The book explores the ways that this design strategy is being used – and sometimes intentionally misused – by an emerging group of artists who combine fresh aesthetic sensibilities with constructively critical approaches to the production, dissemination, and display of their art. Lavishly illustrated, the book also includes texts by and interviews with individual artists, along with substantial essays by exhibition curator Stephanie Smith and design historian Victor Margolin. What results is a bracing volume that will be of interest to practitioners and aficionados of design and art alike, as well as to environmentalists.

Blunt Object

Introduction by Courtenay Smith ©1998

Paper, 36 pages, 24 color plates. $8.00

This book catalogues the contemporary sculptures included in the Smart Museum's 1998 exhibition Blunt Object. Courtney Smith, Associate Curator at the Smart Museum, introduces the catalog with an essay exploring this 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 Beech, Mark Cole, Meredith Danluck, Bill Davenport, Sally Elesby, Tom Friedman, Matt Harle, Elizabeth McGrath, Charles Long, Franz West, Sarah Whipple, Alan Wiener, and Daniel Wiener.

The Chicago Imagist Print: Ten Artists' Works, 1958-1987: A Catalogue Raisonné

Dennis Adrian and Richard Born ©1987

Paper, 20 color plates, 467 black and white images. $25.00

Appearing along with the exhibition Chicago Imagist Prints, 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, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Suellen Rocca, Barbara Rossi, and Karl Wirsum - are considered part of the post-World War II Chicago Imagist movement centered around a series of 1960s exhibitions at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. This catalogue includes introductions to each of the artists along with an essay regarding printmaking in Chicago Imagism.

The Classical Collection

G. Ferrari, C. M. Neilsen, and K. Olson ©1998

Paper, 226 pages, 19 color plates, 238 black and white images. $40.00

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 published before, but most have not. Among the latter are pieces of substantial scholarly and artistic interest, such as the Archaic bronze basin of Near Eastern manufacture said to come from a Cumaean grave; the lekythos in Six's technique wit the earliest representation of Pan with Eros; and the portrait of a child with a "Horus lock, " which joins the short list of such images of children dedicated to Dionysus.

Confronting Identities in German Art

Reinhold Heller, with essays by Naomi Hume, Allison Morehead, Celka Straughn and Sabine Wieber ©2003

179 pages. $27.50

What does it mean to be German? Recent answers to this question have ranged from the general ("Germans are always the other") to the analytic ("They are a multiple identity with a constant wish for redefinition"). The catalogue for Confronting Identities in German Art turns to art works, artists, and their audiences to explore how Germans of the past two centuries have confronted issues of identity, both individual and collective. Focusing on the Smart Museum's rich holdings of German art and a significant selection of important loans, it examines the complex interweaving of subjective identities from the period of Caspar David Friedrich to that of Anselm Kiefer. Thematic essays come together with a select number of object entries to place individual works of art within a larger historical context, and the whole is lavishly illustrated with one hundred images from the exhibition itself.

Dawoud Bey: The Chicago Project

Dawoud Bey, Dan Collison, Elizabeth Meister, Stephanie Smith, and Jacqueline Terrassa ©2003

Paper, 96 pages, 12 color plates, 20 black-and-white illustrations. $25.00

Is it possible for a photographic portrait to rereal anything "real" about its subject? As part of a twelve-week residency, acclaimed photographer Dawoud Bey asked this question of twelve teenagers from nearby schools. This fully illustrated book unpacks the process of Bey's ambitious residency and its products: a major exhibition pairing Bey's portraits of each student with audio portraits created by award-winng radio producers Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister (included here on CD), as well as an exhibition of portraits curated by the students themselves.

The Documentary Photograph as a Work of Art: American Photographs 1860-1876

©1976

49 pages. $5.00

Earth, Water, Fire: Classical Mediterranean Ceramics

©1980

77 pages. $1.00

Ecologies: Mark Dion, Peter Fend, Dan Peterman

Stephanie Smith ©2001

Paper, 144 pages, 8 color plates, 53 halftones. $25.00

In 2000, the Smart Museum commissioned artists Mark Dion, Peter Fend, and Dan Peterman to create new site-specific installations. This catalogue documents the complex processes and projects that comprised the resulting exhibition and offers an opportunity to reflect on broader implications of the artists' work. Smart museum Associate Curator Stephanie Smith contributes an introductory essay and overviews of the three projects, each of the artists contribute texts, and photographers Susan Anderson and Tom van Eynde provide vivid visual documentation.

Exhibiting Experimental Art in China

Wu Hung ©2000

Paper, 224 pages, 111 color plates, 29 halftones. $40.00

In this book, Wu Hung documents the Smart's exhibition "Canceled": Exhibiting Experimental Art in China, which centered on another exhibition, the canceled It's Me (Beijing, 1998). He contextualizes both projects within current trends in Chinese experimental art. The catalogue also contains a rich collection of primary documents related to eleven other recent exhibitions in China. Exhibiting Experimental Art in China received design awards from the American Association of Museum's Publications Design Competition, Type Directors Club 47, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and Communication Arts Design Annual 2001.

From Blast to Pop: Aspects of Modern British Art, 1915 - 1965

Richard A. Born with an essay by Keith Hartley ©1997

Paper, 136 pages, 13 color plates, 100 black and white images. $29.95

Coinciding with the Smart Museum's 1997 exhibition From Blast to Pop, this catalog features works by important British avant-garde artists such as Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and William Turnbull, the show explored the period between two defining movements in English Modernism: Vorticism, England's first abstract art movement, and British Pop art of the late 1950s. The exhibition was organized from the Smart Museum's little-known collection of British paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. The catalog includes an introduction by Keith Hartley, deputy keeper of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

German and Austrian Paintings of the Eighteenth Century

Introduction by Edward Maser ©1978

56 pages. $3.00

The German Print Portfolio 1890-1930: Serials for a Private Sphere

Introduction by Reinhold Heller, text by Robin Reisenfeld ©1992

Paper, 159 pages, 10 color plates, 103 black and white plates. $29.95

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 with Max Klinger, the first modern German artist to regard the print portfolio as an integral part of his oeuvre. Two Naturalist series by Lovis Corinth, Expressionist examples by artists of Brücke as well as by Ernst Barlac, Max Beckmann, and Oskar Kokoschka, and New-Objectivity and Realist works by Otto Dix, George Grosz, and the Berlin social critic Rafaello Busoni document the diverse stylistic paths this new trend followed. In addition to a discussion of media and artistic choice, the essays examine the uses and themes of portfolios, from direct political, social, or economic commentary to literary, and even musical allusions.

A Guide to the Collection

Edited by Sue Taylor and Richard Born ©1990

216 pages, 99 color plates, 8 black and white illustrations. $45 for hardcover, $25 for softcover

Published on the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of the Smart Museum of Art, this handsome volume documents the rapid emergence of one of America's leading university collections. The book celebrates no only the Museum's acquisitions of major art, including those previously collected by the University itself since its founding in 1891, but also the richness and vitality of scholarship at the University of Chicago. Together with the beautiful color reproductions, the essays, authored by distinguished faculty, alumni, and advanced graduate students in the Department of Art, illustrate the special nature of a university art museum. Catalogue entries focus on problems of iconography, technique, stylistic influence and dissemination, attribution, and historical context.

Hsieh Shih-ch'en: A Ming Dynasty Painter Represents the Past

Introduction by Harrie A. Venderstappen ©1976

55 pages. $3.00

Imagining an Irish Past: The Celtic Revivial 1840-1940

Preface by TJ Edelstein. Essays by Micheal Camille, Neil Harris, Anthony Jones, Frank Kinahan, Linda Seidel and Cheryl Washer ©1992

158 page. $27.50

Literary Objects: Flaubert

Essays by Phillipe Desan and Mark Wolff and Britt Salvesen, Meditation by Régine Robin, Contributions from Fanny Clonch, Catherine Collet-Jarard, Maria Edstrom, Sarah Hurlburt, Florence Vatan, Mythili Venkataraman, Mark Wolff ©1996

Paper, 64 pages, 21 black and white images. $9.95

This publication documents the exhibition Literary Objects: Flaubert, shown at the Smart Museum in the spring of 1995. Organized by Philippe Desan, Professor of Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Chicago, and his graduate and undergraduate students, Literary Objects explored the concept of the commodity as seen through the writings of Gustave Flaubert. The exhibition display included furniture, paintings, prints, sculpture, and other objets d'art. Together with selected passages from Flaubert, these objects referred to overlapping worlds of the French middle class: the domestic interior, the political arena, the imagined Orient, and the historical past.

Looking and Listening in Nineteenth-Century France

Martha Ward and Anne Leonard, with contributions by Josephine Landback, Julia Langbein, Allison Morehead, Elayne Oliphant, Eleanor Rivera, and Michael Tymkiw © 2007

Paper, 104 pages, 8 color plates and 67 black and white illustrations, 8.5" x 11" trim, $24.00

Audiences in different eras look at art and listen to music in dramatically different ways. During the nineteenth century, the habits and fashions associated with looking and listening changed rapidly. Examining themes of attention and the place of looking and listening in the art of nineteenth-century France, this catalogue features two principal essays by the exhibition curators, Martha Ward, Associate Professor and Chair of the Art History Department at the University of Chicago, and Anne Leonard, Smart Museum Curator and Mellon Program Coordinator. It also includes contributions by Josephine Landback, Julia Langbein, Allison Morehead, Elayne Oliphant, Eleanor Rivera, and Michael Tymkiw—all University of Chicago students who participated in the Looking and Listening course.

The catalogue is accompanied by a CD compilation of related music, including two bonus tracks of early recordings.

Looking and Listening in Nineteenth-Century France is part of a series of projects generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The exhibition and related programs have been made possible in part by the Smart Family Foundation, the Rhoades Foundation, the France Chicago Center and the Office of the Provost, University of Chicago, and are presented in partnership with the Consulate General of France in Chicago. The exhibition catalogue has been supported by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

Looking to Learn

Linda Seidel and Katherine Taylor ©1998

Paper, 64 pages, 41 black and white figures. $12.00

This book accompanied the exhibition organized by graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in the University of Chicago's course "Visual Pedagogies". Under the direction of Professors Linda Seidel and Katherine Taylor, students researched the history of the University by addressing the ways in which objects, artifacts, and images have been collected, deployed, and displayed in teaching, research, and other forms of representation. The catalog features historical photographs and memorabilia of the University of Chicago.

Lyonel Feininger: Awareness, Recollection and Nostalgia

Text by Reinhold Heller ©1992

20 pages. $7.95

Master Prints from Landfall Press

Text by Dennis Adrian ©1980

23 pages. $3.00

One/Many: Western American Survey Photographs by Bell and O'Sullivan

Joel Snyder, with a contribution by Josh Ellenbogen, ©2006

Paper, 120 pages, 70 four-color illustrations, 10" x 8", $28.00.

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 frontier.

Highlighting a recent Smart Museum of Art acquisition, One/Many brings together an exquisite group of photographs by Bell and O'Sullivan. Particularly noteworthy are their photographic panoramas, assemblages of individual images joined together to form a continuous, horizontal landscape view. These panoramas have not been exhibited in well over a century and have never before been published. For the first time, One/Many investigates their role and purpose both within and outside of the surveys, taking into account the larger context of nineteenth-century modes of viewing. The volume also allows the little-known Bell's work to be better understood next to that of his more famous colleague.

Published in landscape format, with handsome full-page reproductions of the vintage photographs at nearly full scale (including gatefold panoramas), this catalogue features scholarly essays by Joel Snyder and Josh Ellenbogen and a section on nineteenth-century photographic techniques.

The exhibition, catalogue, and related programs are generously supported in part by the Smart Family Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Rhoades Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and the Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago. Lead corporate sponsorship is generously provided by LaSalle Bank.

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

Rebecca Zorach and Elizabeth Rodini, with contributions by Sarah Cree, Alexandra M. Korey, Lia Markey, and Dawna Schuld ©2005

Paper, 168 pages, 8 color plates, 113 halftone illustrations. $24.00

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 and cultural context, reproductive prints were crucial to the forging of a common visual culture. Paper Museums offers an important interpretive survey of these remarkable works. The contributors to the volume explore the diverse range of uses for reproductive prints, including establishing printmakers' reputations as truthful and authoritative artists, promoting an artist's oeuvre or the holdings of a collector, and enabling the public to enjoy original works vicariously. The volume also analyzes issues such as the culture of the print workshop and, in particular, the status of female printmakers; truth and authenticity ascribed to the printed form; and the dissemination of antique forms through prints.

This catalogue was funded by an endowment established by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Additional support was provided by the Smart Family Foundation, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Rhoades Foundation, Tom and Janis McCormick and the Kanter Family Foundation, and Nuveen Investments.

Pious Journeys: Christian Devotional Art and Practice in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance

Linda Seidel, with contributions by Jennifer Sarene Berg, Sienna Brown, Wen-shing Lucia Chou, Melati Lucille Granucci, Todd Anthony Komoroski, Stephanie Leitch, Ann Marie Lonsdale, Risham Majeed, Anna Ohly, Pamela Raboy, Stefania Rosenstein, and Matthew Shoaf ©2001

Paper, 90 pages, 8 color plates, 53 halftones. $22.00

As a component of one of the Smart's Mellon projects, this catalogue was the culmination of a university 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 the central role objects and images played in Western European Christians' spiritual journeys. The texts investigate imagery's critical role in the development of personal devotions, in the organization of liturgical worship, and practices surrounding the institution of the Eucharist and the cult of saints.

The Place of the Antique in Early Modern Europe

Ingrid D. Rowland, Craig Hanson, Noriko Matsubara, Mario Periera and Allie Terry ©1999

Paper, 109 pages, 73 black and white images, 9 color images. $22.00

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 antiquity) influenced a range of artistic production in Europe during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries.

Post-Pop, Post-Pictures

Introduction by Courtenay Smith ©1997

Paper, 31 pages, 11 color plates. $10.00

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 mundane and mediated because it is more self-consciously culturally informed.

Roma Resurgens: Papal Medals from the Age of the Baroque

Text by Nathan T. Whitman and John L. Variano ©1983

188 pages.

Out of stock.

"See America First": The Prints of H.C. Westermann

Dennis Adrian and Richard A. Born, with contributions from Jenny Pompe and Michael Rooks ©2001

Paper, 232 pages, 120 color plates, 20 halftones. $35.00

This book presents the first comprehensive, scholarly consideration of 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. In addition, over 100 large-format color images and 20 black-and-white illustrations are accompanied by detailed entries by Adrian, Born, Jenny Pompe, exhibition researcher, and Michael Rooks.

Smart Collecting: Acquisitions 1990-2004

Kimerly Rorschach, with contributions by Richard A. Born, Kris Ercums, Sophie Hackett, Anne Leonard, Diane Miliotes, Stephanie Smith, and Jacqueline Terrassa ©2004

Paper, 228 pages, 128 color plates. $30.00

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 by Dana Feitler Director Kimerly Rorschach charts the growth and strengths of the Smart's collection as they relate to the institution's teaching mission. Smart Collecting also provides detailed documentation of all acquisitions made between 1990 and 2004, and features over fifty objects entries highlighting important additions in areas such as print and photographic art, German expressionism, East Asian art, and contemporary art. A fascinating work in its own right, the catalogue chronicles the development of a unique collection and shows how a museum itself is always a work in progress.

Space/Sight/Self

Essays by Laura Letinsky and Elizabeth Bloom. Contributions from Catherine Cooper, Jasmine Davila, Liv Gjestvang, Tony Neuhoff, Anna Pomykala and Liza Siegler ©1998

Paper, 76 pages, 11 color plates, 11 black and white images. $12.00

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 was the collaborative result of students' research and thinking about these issues. The catalog includes artists Lynn Barlow, Dawoud Bey, Brett Bloom, Alice Hargrave, Jurgen Mayer Hermann, Byron Kim, Nina Levitt, Ana Mendieta, Holly Rittenhouse, Inez van Lamsweerde, and Francesca Woodman.

The Stage is All the World: The Theatrical Designs of Tanya Moiseiwitsch

T.J. Edelstein, with essays by Alan Barlow, Dennis Behl, and Robertson Davies ©1994

Paper, 134 pages, 127 images. $29.95

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 the Globe and, perhaps, by its motto, her innovative stage architecture and three-dimensional design concepts inspired a fresh understanding of the classics.

Still More Distant Journeys: The Artistic Emigrations of Lasar Segall

Stephanie D'Alessandro, with contributions by Reinhold Heller and Vera d'Horta ©1997

Paper, 284 pages, 137 color plates, 121 figures In English and Portuguese. $39.95

The first major U.S. retrospective of the work of Lasar Segall, Still More Distant Journeys: The Artistic Emigrations of Lasar Segall 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 Expressionism and Brazilian modernism. Documenting the Diasporaa of the Jews and embodying notions of "exoticism" and "primitivism" in modern art, Segall's work presents a range of issues significant to today's global culture and politics.

The Theatrical Baroque

Larry F. Norman, with contributions by Josh Ellenbogen, Brandy Flack, Rebekah Flohr, Anita M. Hagerman-Young, Robert S. Huddleston, Matt Hunter, Véronique Sigu, Kerry Wilks, and Delphine Zurfluh ©2001

Paper, 70 pages, 8 color plates, 34 halftones. $22.00

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 project, The Theatrical Baroque features contributions from professor Larry F. Norman and several students, written in conjunction with a course in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. The topics covered include spectator and spectacle, social performance and the staging of the individual, the shaping of space and time, and debates over the connections between visual and theatrical representations and the objects they portray.

Transforming Image: The Art of Silver Horn and His Successors

Robert G. Donnelly, with contributions by Janet Catherine Berlo and Candace Green ©2000

Paper, 215 pages, 92 color images. $45.00

This exhibition acknowledged the work of the important Kiowa artist Silver Horn (860-1940), 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 era of forced settlement on reservations. The essays included in this exhibition catalog situate Silver Horn's works both within the context of other Kiowa warrior-artists of his generation, and as a key element of the legacy of this late nineteenth-century tradition among modern and contemporary Kiowa artists who work within a Euro-American cultural framework.

Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century

Wu Hung ©1999

Paper, 214 pages, 65 black and white photographs and 50 color plates. $40.00

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 living abroad in Europe and the United States, and their styles and modes of expression vary. Many of these artists derive materials techniques, and concepts from both western and traditional Chinese aesthetics as they address the relationship between regionalism and globalization in contemporary art.

Two Visionary Brothers: David and Alfred Smart

David Maize © 2003

Paper, 38 pages, 17 color plates, 9 black-and-white. $12.00

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 brother' other ventures included Coronet Films, the nation's leading producer of Cold War-era educational and training films, many of which are now cult favorites. This fully illustrated biography chronicles the Smart's lives and professional innovations.

Victors and Victims: Artists' Responses to War from Antiquity through the Vietnam Era

©1985

19 pages. $2.00

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

Stephanie D'Alessaandro and Sander L. Gilman ©1998

Paper, 21 pages

While German art in the 1920s is not unique in its representational qualities and meanings, it does exemplify a particular moment in which we can identify continuities and re-readings of the body in Western culture. Weimar citizens were left with questions about their new identity and place within the world, and they worked them out in fine art and popular visual representations. Weimar Bodies: Fantasies about the Body brings together art works and other kinds of images to explore the range of popular ideas about Weimar bodies in order to provide a sense of how Germany saw itself in the cracked mirror of history.

A Well-Fashioned Image: Clothing and Costume in European Art, 1500-1850

Edited by Elizabeth Rodini and Elissa B. Weaver, with contributions by Kristen Ina Grimes, Jennifer Haraguchi, Sarah Patricia Hill, Jessen Kelly, Margaret E. Kern, Meredith Kennedy Ray, Rachel Walsh Urquhart, and Sabine Wieber ©2002

Paper, 128 pages, 8 color plates, 63 halftones. $22.00

Fashion – the question of what to wear and how to wear it – is a centuries-old obsession. Beyond superficial concerns with personal appearance, the history of dress points to deep preoccupations surrounding social order, national identity, and moral decency. "A Well-Fashioned Image" investigates clothing from these various perspectives. This catalogue features an introduction by exhibition co-curators Elizabeth Rodini and Professor Elissa B. Weaver and essays from Weaver's students in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.