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Museums Matter In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum

Cuno James

ISBN: PB: 9780226100913, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
164 pp., 20.5x14 cm, 10 halftones, 4 colour illus.

The concept of an encyclopedic museum was born of the Enlightenment, a manifestation of society's growing belief that the spread of knowledge and the promotion of intellectual inquiry were crucial to human development and the future of a rational soc...

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Modern Wing Renzo Piano and the Art Institute of Chicago

Cuno James, Goldberger Paul, Rosa Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780300141122, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2009
160 pp., 25.4x27.9 cm, 120 colour images, 20 duotone illus.

This handsome book examines the remarkable new addition to the Art Institute of Chicago, designed by Renzo Piano and scheduled to open in May 2009. This expansion to The Art Institute of Chicago, already one of the largest museums in the country, wil...

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560 Broadway A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991-2006

Eshoo Amy, Cartwright Derrick R., Cuno James, Finch Elizabeth, Helfenstein Josef, Lowry Glenn D., Mickenberg David, Philbin Ann, Powell Earl A., Reynolds Jock

ISBN: HB: 9780300135398, Yale University Press, February 2008
208 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 180 colour illus.

"560 Broadway" is the first book to explore one of this country's most remarkable private collections of modern and contemporary American drawings. Featuring such artists as Sol Lewitt, Mel Bochner, Jasper Johns, and Agnes Martin, the collection of W...

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