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History of Art

Age of Picasso and Matisse Modern Art at the Art Institute of Chicago

D'Alessandro Stephanie, Mertz Renee DeVoe

ISBN: HB: 9780300208788, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2014
144 pp., 24.1x24.1 cm, 154 colour, 8 black&white illus.

The Art Institute of Chicago's opportunity to host the International Exhibition of Modern Art, better known as the Armory Show, in 1913 set a radical new course for modern and contemporary art in the United States. This monumental exhibition introduc...

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History of Art

What May Come The Taller De Grafica Popular and the Mexican Political Print

Miliotes Diane

ISBN: PB: 9780300207781, Yale University Press, A+D Series, August 2014
40 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 25 colour illus.

Established in Mexico City in 1937, the Taller de Grafica Popular (People's Graphic Arts Workshop) sought to create prints, posters and illustrated publications that were appealing and affordable, legible and politically topical, and above all formal...

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History of Art

Dreams and Echoes Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection

Folds McCullagh Suzanne

ISBN: HB: 9780300196245, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2013
224 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 180 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

Over the past 30 years, David and Celia Hilliard have amassed a remarkable collection of Old Master, 19th-century, and modern drawings, as well as of French sculpture from the 19th century, including significant drawings and sculptures by Claude Vign...

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Photography

Abelardo Morell The Universe Next Door

Siegel Elizabeth, Abbott Brett, Martineau Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300184556, Yale University Press, A+D Series, June 2013
176 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 55 colour illus., 75 duotone illus.

Over the past twenty-five years, Abelardo Morell (b. 1948) has earned international praise for his images that use the language of photography to explore visual surprise and wonder. Born in Havana, Cuba, Morell came to the United States as a teenager...

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Contemporary Art

They Seek a City Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910-1950

Oehler Sarah Kelly

ISBN: HB: 9780300184532, Yale University Press, A+D Series, March 2013
112 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 85 colour images, 10 black&white illus.

In the first half of the 20th century, thousands of newcomers – Eastern European emigres, Mexican immigrants, and Southerners both black and white – flocked to Chicago. These new residents included artists who made significant contributions to the vi...

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Recasting the Past Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago

Manchester Karen, Alexander Karen B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300191912, Yale University Press, A+D Series, March 2013
116 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 85 colour images, 5 black&white illus.

Founded in 1879 as the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago began a tradition of collecting plaster casts of Classical sculpture for display in its galleries and use in its studio art classes. Other original works of art were al...

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Decorative Arts

For Kith and Kin Folk Art at the Art Institute of Chicago

Barter Judith A., Obniski Monica

ISBN: HB: 9780300179729, Yale University Press, A+D Series, June 2012
112 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 90 colour images, 12 black&white illus.

The Art Institute of Chicago is home to one of the world's finest – and largest – collections of American folk art. "For Kith and Kin" provides an introduction to that collection through more than sixty of its most outstanding objects. Selected by pr...

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Design

Fashioning the Object Bless, Boudicca and the Sandra Backlund

Ryan Zoe

ISBN: PB: 9780300179743, Yale University Press, A+D Series, May 2012
112 pp., 21.6x13.3 cm, 100 colour illus.

The newest volume in the "Art Institute of Chicago's successful A + D" series, "Fashioning the Object", invites readers to visit three of the most visionary design studios at work today: Bless, Boudicca, and Sandra Backlund. Fiercely independent and...

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Photography

Contemporary Art

Jindrich Heisler Surrealism Under Pressure, 1938-1953

Witkovsky Matthew S., Toman Jindrich

ISBN: HB: 9780300179699, Yale University Press, A+D Series, April 2012
144 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 80 colour illus.

Czech poet and photographer Jindrich Heisler (1914-1953) joined the Czech Surrealist Group in 1938, just as Nazi occupation of the country was driving the movement and Czech artists underground. Heisler published his first book of poetry a year later...

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Photography

Three Graces Snapshots of Twentieth-century Women

Raz-Russo Michal

ISBN: PB: 9780300177343, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2011
160 pp., 21x15.2 cm, 150 colour illus.

Snapshots preserve more than individual likeness and memory. Photographs of celebrations, vacations, and gatherings of family and friends are accumulated with the aim of constructing and preserving a personal identity for future generations. What hap...

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