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Architecture

Chicago Apartments A Century and Beyond of Lakefront Luxury

Harris Neil, Edelstein Teri J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226610870, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
368 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 344 duotones

The Chicago lakefront is one of America's urban wonders. The ribbon of high-rise luxury apartment buildings along the Lake Michigan shore has few, if any, rivals nationwide for sustained architectural significance. This historic confluence of site, m...

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Architecture

Art Deco Chicago Designing Modern America

Bruegmann Robert, Mekinda Jonathan, Edelstein Teri J., Schrenk Lisa D., Harris Neil

ISBN: HB: 9780300229936, Yale University Press, November 2018
412 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 207 colour illus., 118 black&white illus.

Frank Lloyd Wright's lost Midway Gardens, the iconic Sunbeam Mixmaster, and Marshall Field's famed window displays: despite the differences in scale and medium, each belongs to the broad current of an Art Deco style that developed in Chicago in the f...

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America

Capital Culture J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience

Harris Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226434469, ISBN: HB: 9780226067704, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones

American art museums flourished in the late twentieth century, and the impresario leading much of this growth was J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from 1969 to 1992. Along with S. Dillon Ripley, who served a...

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History of Art

Culture Studies

En Guerre French Illustrators and World War I

Harris Neil, Edelstein Teri J.

ISBN: PB: 9780943056425, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
144 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 140 colour plates

With 2014 marking the one-hundredth anniversary of the commencement of World War I, En Guerre offers a fresh, thought-provoking exploration of the impact of the Great War as viewed through the lens of French graphic illustration of the period. Publis...

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History of Art

Clark Brothers Collect Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings from the Collections of Sterling and Stephen Clark

Conforti Michael, Ganz James A., Harris Neil, Vincent Gilbert T., Cohen-McFall Daniel, Lees Sarah, Maurer Susannah, Rand Richard, Simpson Marc

ISBN: HB: 9780300116199, Yale University Press, August 2006
368 pp., 25x28.1 cm, 100 colour images, 150 black&white illus.

Brothers Sterling and Stephen Clark, heirs to the Singer sewing machine fortune, were among the twentieth century's most influential art collectors. This volume examines their magnificent collections, their personal lives and public profiles, and the...

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