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History of Art

Confronting Identities in German Art Myths, Reactions, Reflections

Heller Reinhold

ISBN: PB: 9780935573367, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2002
180 pp., 28.1x20.3 cm, 20 colour plates, 80 halftones

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 Ident...

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History of Art

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

Weaver Elissa B., Rodini Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780935573350, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2002
110 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 8 colour plates, 40 halftones

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 the social order, national identity, and mo...

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Contemporary Art

Ecology

Ecologies Mark Dion, Peter Fend, Dan Peterman

Smith Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9780935573329, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, July 2001
96 pp., 22.8x16.4 cm, 32 colour plates, 80 halftones

Since the 1960s, many artists have incorporated ecological concerns into their work, an endeavor that has required new strategies in art-making. To explore recent American manifestations of these interests, the David and Alfred Smart Museum commissio...

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History of Art

Transforming Images The Art of Silver Horn and His Successors

Donnelley Robert G., Greene Candace S., Berlo Janet Catherine

ISBN: PB: 9780935573312, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, March 2001
216 pp., 30.5x24.9 cm, 75 colour plates, 15 black&white photographs

Silver Horn's lifespan (1860-1940) placed him in the midst of extreme cultural transformations: by the time of his death, highways, silos, and gas stations dominated the land that had, at his birth, been the domain of buffalo herds and Plains Indians...

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History of Art

Place of the Antique in Early Modern Europe

Rowland Ingrid D.

ISBN: PB: 9780935573282, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2000
110 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 9 colour plates, 81 halftones

A scholar's desk, a warlord's castle, a pope's altar, the mouth of a volcano: in the minds of early modern Europeans, all evoked memories of ancient times, from Egyptian pharaohs to Roman emperors. The essays in this catalog explore the influence of...

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Contemporary Art

Exhibiting Experimental Art in China

Hung Wu

ISBN: PB: 9780935573336, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, February 2000
224 pp., 28.1x18.6 cm, 111 colour plates, 29 halftones

In his new book, Wu Hung raises timely questions about artistic freedom and censorship. Here, as in the Smart Museum's exhibition "Canceled: Exhibiting Experimental Art in China", Wu uses the government's cancellation of the exhibition It's Me (Beiji...

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Contemporary Art

Space/Sight/Self

Letinsky Laura, Bloom Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780935573220, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, July 1999
76 pp., 22.3x16.5 cm, 10 colour plates, 24 halftones

The exhibition "Space/Sight/Self" was designed to study the role of portraiture in contemporary art as a nexus of three issues – identity, vision, and place. The goal was to produce a portrait, as it were, of contemporary portraiture. This catalog do...

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History of Art

Classical Collection of the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago

Ferrari Gloria, Nielsen Christina M., Olson Kelly

ISBN: PB: 9780935573251, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, May 1999
256 pp., 26.5x20.9 cm, 22 colour illus., 329 black&white illus.

The Smart Museum's Classical collection began developing in the 1890s and now consists of approximately eight hundred pieces, including large-scale statuary and floor mosaics, vases, figurines, coins, lamps, and other utensils. The first extensive st...

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History of Art

Still More Distant Journeys The Artistic Emigrations of Lasar Segall

D'Alessandro Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9780935573190, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, February 1998
284 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 137 colour plates, 168 halftones

The first major retrospective of the work of Lasar Segall, this catalog explores the artist's changing cultural and artistic identities as demonstrated in over 224. Segall was an influential artist who infused Brazilian modernism with the color, ps...

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