Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780865590779
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, Volume 12, Number 1
Author: Museum Studies
Author: Seurat and La Grande Jatte
Author: Robert BurleighPublisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810948112
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An analysis of the noted painting "Sunday on La Grande Jette, 1884" by French painter Georges Seurat. The discussion includes information on technique and meaning of the painting.
The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report
Author: Art Institute of ChicagoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Museum Education at the Art Institute of Chicago
Author: Art Institute of ChicagoPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780865592025
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
This special issue of Museum Studies explores the broad history and practice of art education at the Art Institute, charting the museum's past, present, and future vision of what museum education can be and do. Drawing from a rich trove of archival, oral, and photographic resources, authors offer a lively account of museum education as an evolving profession, an outlet for aesthetic and political programs, and a crucial element of the Art Institute's public mission from the moment of its founding in 1879. The project, sponsored by the Woman's Board of The Art Institute of Chicago to commemorate its fiftieth anniversary, also explores that group's signal commitment to education and volunteerism at the museum, which has ranged from creating suburban community associations to sponsoring a corps of volunteer docents, from establishing a pioneering children's museum to planning celebrations that open the Art Institute's doors to the widest possible public. A pathbreaking effort, this publication constitutes an important, unique contribution to the history of education in American cultural institutions.
Speaking of Objects
Author: Constantine PetridisPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300254326
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A lavishly illustrated selection of highlights from the Art Institute of Chicago’s extraordinary collection of the arts of Africa Featuring a selection of more than 75 works of traditional African art in the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection, this stunning volume includes objects in a wide variety of media from regions across the continent. Essays and catalogue entries by leading art historians and anthropologists attend closely to the meanings and materials of the works themselves in addition to fleshing out original contexts. These experts also underscore the ways in which provenance and collection history are important to understanding how we view such objects today. Celebrating the Art Institute’s collection of traditional African art as one of the oldest and most diverse in the United States, this is a fresh and engaging look at current research into the arts of Africa as well as the potential of future scholarship.
The Modern Wing
Author: James B. CunoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art museum architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
"This volume celebrates the construction of the largest expansion in the history of the Art Institute of Chicago. Designed by Renzo Piano, principal of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, with offices in Paris and Genoa, the Modern Wing adds a bold new Modernist structure to Chicago's downtown lakefront area, directly across the street from the successful Millennium Park and its major feature, the Jay Pritzker Pavilion designed by Frank Gehry." "The story of the Modern Wing - from its commissioning in 1999, to its groundbreaking in 2005, to its dedication in May 2009 - is told in this volume by the Art Institute's president and directory, James Cuno. In addition, well-known architecture critic Paul Goldberger places the Modern Wing in the context of the Art Institute's existing buildings and its many additions through the years. Throughout this book, the many remarkable features of the Modern Wing - its galleries and grand spaces, its "flying carpet" and its enclosed garden - are celebrated in the photographs of Paul Warchol." --Book Jacket.
The Painterly Print
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870992236
Category : Monotype (Engraving)
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago
Author: Art Institute of ChicagoPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780865592094
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
The culmination of a two-part project, this volume takes an extended look at recent, important acquisitions by the Art Institute of Chicago's departments of American Arts, Architecture, Asian Art, European Painting, and Prints and Drawings. Bringing the museum's collecting activities into wide public view, it showcases over forty notable works handpicked by Art Institute curators and the museum's director and president, James N. Wood. Together with its companion issue, which was published in Fall 2003, this publication explores art works acquired between 1992 and 2003, years that have brought significant additions to every area of the Art Institute's holdings. This volume surveys an impressive array of objects, including a glittering Empire card table from early nineteenth-century New York; a fragment of Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel, Tokyo (1923); and important paintings and works on paper by artists as diverse as Lee Krasner, Edvard Munch, Ni Zan, and Rembrandt van Rijn. Illuminated by striking, full-colour reproductions and a lively, accessible text, this is an indispensable guide to the newest and finest the Art Institute has to offer.
Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
Author: Art Institute of ChicagoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description