Dreams and Echoes
Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780300196245,
Yale University Press,
A+D Series,
September 2013
224 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 180 colour images, 20 black&white illus.
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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Abelardo Morell
The Universe Next Door
ISBN: HB: 9780300184556,
Yale University Press,
A+D Series,
June 2013
176 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 55 colour illus., 75 duotone illus.
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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They Seek a City
Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910-1950
ISBN: HB: 9780300184532,
Yale University Press,
A+D Series,
March 2013
112 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 85 colour images, 10 black&white illus.
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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For Kith and Kin
Folk Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
ISBN: HB: 9780300179729,
Yale University Press,
A+D Series,
June 2012
112 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 90 colour images, 12 black&white illus.
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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Fashioning the Object
Bless, Boudicca and the Sandra Backlund
ISBN: PB: 9780300179743,
Yale University Press,
A+D Series,
May 2012
112 pp., 21,6x13,3 cm, 100 colour illus.
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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Jindrich Heisler
Surrealism Under Pressure, 1938-1953
ISBN: HB: 9780300179699,
Yale University Press,
A+D Series,
April 2012
144 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 80 colour illus.
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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Three Graces
Snapshots of Twentieth-century Women
ISBN: PB: 9780300177343,
Yale University Press,
A+D Series,
November 2011
160 pp., 21,0x15,2 cm, 150 colour illus.
160 pp., 21,0x15,2 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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Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life
Early Twentieth-Century European Modernism
ISBN: HB: 9780300166095,
Yale University Press,
A+D Series,
July 2011
160 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, 160 colour illus.
160 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, 160 colour illus.
Beginning around 1910, vanguard artists demanded that true art go beyond the intellectual and transform daily life. This volume highlights the work of six influential European artists who took this idea into the wider world, where it merged enthusias...
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Altered and Adorned
Using Renaissance Prints in Daily Life
ISBN: HB: 9780300169119,
Yale University Press,
A+D Series,
May 2011
104 pp., 31,0x23,4 cm, 10 black&white illus., 80 colour illus.
104 pp., 31,0x23,4 cm, 10 black&white illus., 80 colour illus.
Today Renaissance-era prints are typically preserved behind glass or in solander boxes in museums, but these decorative objects were once a central part of everyday life. "Altered and Adorned" is a delightful, surprising look at how prints were used...
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Public Notice 3
Jitish Kallat at the Art Institute of Chicago
The Swami Vivekananda's speech to the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893 is the centrepiece of Indian artist Jitish Kallat's new work, "Public Notice 3". The installation went on view at the Art Institute of Chicago on September 11, 2...
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