Publications
Books published by the Smart in conjunction with special exhibitions. Most titles are available for purchase online through the University of Chicago Press.
not all realisms
photography, Africa, and the long 1960s
Digital | 2023
Leslie M. Wilson with contributions from Adom Getachew, Kathryn Takabvirwa, Natacha Nsabimana, Emily Lynn Osborn, Serin Lee, Daisy Coates, and Mariah A-K Bender.
Imaginable Worlds
Art, Crisis, and Global Futures
$20 | 2022
Edited by Orianna Cacchione, Nandita Jaishankar, and Arushi Vats with contributions by Patrick Jagoda and Ashlyn Sparrow, Trina Nileena Banerjee and Amitesh Grover, Suraj Yengde, Jeet Thayil, Leticia Bernaus, Siyanda Mohutsiwa, Uzodinma Iweala, Ho Tzu Nyen, and Meena Kandasamy.
Jeffrey Gibson
Beyond the Horizon
$35 | 2022
Abigail Winograd with Christian Crouch, Dieter Roelstraete, and Kathleen Ash Milby
Samson Young
Silver Moon or Golden Star, Which Will You Buy of Me?
$38 | 2019
Orianna Cacchione with G. Douglas Barrett and Seth Kim-Cohen
The Allure of Matter
Material Art from China
$45 | 2019
Wu Hung and Orianna Cacchione with Christine Mehring and Trevor Smith
The Time Is Now!
Art Worlds of Chicago's South Side, 1960–1980
$35 | 2018
Rebecca Zorach and Marissa H. Baker
Revolution Every Day
A calendar
$30 | 2017
Robert Bird, Christina Kiaer, Zachary Cahill, and Diane Miliotes
There was a whole collection made
Photography from Lester and Betty Guttman
$40 | 2016
Laura Letinsky and Jessica Moss
Monster Roster
Existentialist Art in Postwar Chicago
$45 | 2015
John Corbett, Jim Dempsey, Jessica Moss, and Richard A. Born
Vision and Communism
Viktor Koretsky's art
$24.95 | 2011
Robert Bird, Christopher P. Heuer, Matthew Jesse Jackson, Tumelo Mosaka, and Stephanie Smith
The "Writing" of Modern Life
The Etching Revival in France, Britain, and the U.S., 1850–1940
$20 | 2008
Elizabeth Helsinger
One/Many
Western American Survey Photographs by Bell and O'Sullivan
$28 | 2006
Joel Snyder, Josh Ellenbogen
Paper Museums
The Reproductive Print in Europe, 1500–1800
$24 | 2005
Rebecca Zorach, Elizabeth Rodini
Smart Collecting
Acquisitions 1990–2004
$30 | 2004
Kimerly Rorschach, Richard A. Born, Kris Ercums, Sophie Hackett, Anne Leonard, Diane Miliotes, Stephanie Smith, Jacqueline Terrassa
Between Past and Future
New Photography and Video from China
$40 | 2004
Wu Hung, Christopher Phillips
Dawoud Bey
The Chicago Project
$25 | 2003
Dawoud Bey with Dan Collison, Elizabeth Meister, Stephanie Smith, and Jacqueline Terrassa
A Well-Fashioned Image
Clothing and Costume in European Art, 1500–1850
$22 | 2002
Elizabeth Rodini and Elissa B. Weaver
Pious Journeys
Christian Devotional Art and Practice in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
$22 | 2001
Linda Seidel
The Place of the Antique in Early Modern Europe
$22 | 2000
Ingrid D. Rowland, Craig Hanson, Noriko Matsubara, Mario Periera, and Allie Terry
The Classical Collection
At the Smart Museum of Art
$40 | 1998
Gloria Ferrari, Christina M. Nielsen, and Kelly Olson
Still More Distant Journeys
The Artistic Emigrations of Lasar Segall
$40 | 1997
Stephanie D'Alessandro
Weimar Bodies
Fantasies about the Body in Weimar Art, Science, and Medicine
$8 | 1998
Stephanie D'Alessaandro and Sander L. Gilman
From Blast to Pop
Aspects of Modern British Art, 1915–1965
$30 | 1997
Richard A. Born, Keith Hartley
Imagining an Irish Past
The Celtic Revival 1840–1940
$27.50 | 1992
Micheal Camille, Neil Harris, Anthony Jones, Frank Kinahan, Linda Seidel and Cheryl Washer
The Chicago Imagist Print
A Catalogue Raisonné
Out of stock | 1987
Dennis Adrian and Richard A. Born
Victors and Victims
Artists' Responses to War from Antiquity through the Vietnam Era
$3 | 1985
Bedorah Bathon, Adrienne Kochman, Amy Merritt Rule, Laura Satersmoen, and Stefanie Siegel
Alumni Who Collect I
Drawings from the 16th Century to the Present
$3 | 1982
Edward Maser and Richard A. Born
Abstract Expressionism
A Tribute to Harold Rosenberg
$3 | 1979
Harold Rosenberg, Saul Bellow, and Edward A. Maser
Hsieh Shih-ch'en
A Ming Dynasty Painter Represents the Past
$3 | 1976
Mary S. Lawton and Harrie A. Venderstappen
The Documentary Photograph as a Work of Art
American Photographs 1860–1876
Out of stock | 1976
Joel Snyder and Doug Munson
