Notable Acquisitions At The Art Institute Of Chicago

Author : Art Institute of Chicago,James N. Wood,Gale A. Pearson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0865592098

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Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago by Art Institute of Chicago,James N. Wood,Gale A. Pearson Pdf

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.

Author : Art Institute of Chicago
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSC:32106011847834

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Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago Since 1980 by Art Institute of Chicago Pdf

Author : James Cuno
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781400839247

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Who Owns Antiquity? by James Cuno Pdf

Whether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the art world today, and it has pitted museums, private collectors, and dealers against source countries, archaeologists, and academics. Maintaining that the acquisition of undocumented antiquities by museums encourages the looting of archaeological sites, countries such as Italy, Greece, Egypt, Turkey, and China have claimed ancient artifacts as state property, called for their return from museums around the world, and passed laws against their future export. But in Who Owns Antiquity?, one of the world's leading museum directors vigorously challenges this nationalistic position, arguing that it is damaging and often disingenuous. "Antiquities," James Cuno argues, "are the cultural property of all humankind," "evidence of the world's ancient past and not that of a particular modern nation. They comprise antiquity, and antiquity knows no borders." Cuno argues that nationalistic retention and reclamation policies impede common access to this common heritage and encourage a dubious and dangerous politicization of antiquities--and of culture itself. Antiquities need to be protected from looting but also from nationalistic identity politics. To do this, Cuno calls for measures to broaden rather than restrict international access to antiquities. He advocates restoration of the system under which source countries would share newly discovered artifacts in exchange for archaeological help, and he argues that museums should again be allowed reasonable ways to acquire undocumented antiquities. Cuno explains how partage broadened access to our ancient heritage and helped create national museums in Cairo, Baghdad, and Kabul. The first extended defense of the side of museums in the struggle over antiquities, Who Owns Antiquity? is sure to be as important as it is controversial. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Author : Art Institute of Chicago,James N. Wood,Debra N. Mancoff
Publisher : Hudson Hills Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015050776825

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Treasures from the Art Institute of Chicago by Art Institute of Chicago,James N. Wood,Debra N. Mancoff Pdf

At last a comprehensive, full-color volume joins Hudson Hills Press's successful series of books on one of the world's greatest art museums.

Author : Constantine Petridis
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300254327

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Speaking of Objects by Constantine Petridis Pdf

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.

Author : Sarina Miller
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781648897429

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Perspective: Selected Essays on Space in Art and Design by Sarina Miller Pdf

'Perspective: Selected Essays on Space in Art and Design' explores the ways in which visual and physical space have been designed and experienced in different cultures. This book amplifies the significance of space as a design element by examining its implications in various contexts through a global perspective of art and design.

Author : James Cuno
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781400833047

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Whose Culture? by James Cuno Pdf

The international controversy over who "owns" antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are found. In his book Who Owns Antiquity?, James Cuno argued that antiquities are the cultural property of humankind, not of the countries that lay exclusive claim to them. Now in Whose Culture?, Cuno assembles preeminent museum directors, curators, and scholars to explain for themselves what's at stake in this struggle--and why the museums' critics couldn't be more wrong. Source countries and archaeologists favor tough cultural property laws restricting the export of antiquities, have fought for the return of artifacts from museums worldwide, and claim the acquisition of undocumented antiquities encourages looting of archaeological sites. In Whose Culture?, leading figures from universities and museums in the United States and Britain argue that modern nation-states have at best a dubious connection with the ancient cultures they claim to represent, and that archaeology has been misused by nationalistic identity politics. They explain why exhibition is essential to responsible acquisitions, why our shared art heritage trumps nationalist agendas, why restrictive cultural property laws put antiquities at risk from unstable governments--and more. Defending the principles of art as the legacy of all humankind and museums as instruments of inquiry and tolerance, Whose Culture? brings reasoned argument to an issue that for too long has been distorted by politics and emotionalism. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Kwame Anthony Appiah, Sir John Boardman, Michael F. Brown, Derek Gillman, Neil MacGregor, John Henry Merryman, Philippe de Montebello, David I. Owen, and James C. Y. Watt.

Author : Andrea Myers Achi
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588397713

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Africa and Byzantium by Andrea Myers Achi Pdf

Medieval art history has long emphasized the glories of the Byzantine Empire, but less known are the profound artistic contributions of Nubia, Egypt, Ethiopia, and other powerful African kingdoms whose pivotal interactions with Byzantium had an indelible impact on the medieval Mediterranean world. Bringing together more than 170 masterworks in a range of media and techniques—from mosaic, sculpture, pottery, and metalwork to luxury objects, panel paintings, and religious manuscripts—Africa and Byzantium recounts Africa’s centrality in transcontinental networks of trade and cultural exchange. With incisive scholarship and new photography of works rarely or never before seen in public, this long-overdue publication sheds new light on the staggering artistic achievements of late antique Africa. It reconsiders northern and eastern Africa’s contributions to the development of the premodern world and offers a more complete history of the region as a vibrant, multiethnic society of diverse languages and faiths that played a crucial role in the artistic, economic, and cultural life of Byzantium and beyond.

Author : Wolfram Koeppe,Noam Andrews,Florian Thaddäus Bayer,Jens Ludwig Burk,Wolfram Dolz,Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie,Karsten Gaulke,Michael Korey,Lothar Lambacher,Peter Plassmeyer,Paulus Rainer,Antje Scherner,Konrad Schlegel,Pamela H. Smith,Dirk Syndram
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588396778

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Making Marvels by Wolfram Koeppe,Noam Andrews,Florian Thaddäus Bayer,Jens Ludwig Burk,Wolfram Dolz,Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie,Karsten Gaulke,Michael Korey,Lothar Lambacher,Peter Plassmeyer,Paulus Rainer,Antje Scherner,Konrad Schlegel,Pamela H. Smith,Dirk Syndram Pdf

Featuring more than 150 treasures from several of the world’s most prestigious collections, Making Marvels explores the vital intersection of art, technology, and political power at the courts of early modern Europe. It was there, from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, that a remarkable outpouring of creativity and learning gave rise to exquisite objects that were at once beautiful works of art and technological wonders. By amassing vast, glittering collections of these ingeniously crafted objects, princes flaunted their wealth and competed for mastery over the known world. More than mere status symbols, however, many of these marvels ushered in significant advancements that have had a lasting influence on astronomy, engineering, and even international politics. Incisive texts by leading scholars situate these works within the rich, complex symbolism of life at court, where science and splendor were pursued with equal vigor and together contributed to a culture of magnificence.

Author : Eva Meyer-Hermann
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300230284

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Luc Tuymans by Eva Meyer-Hermann Pdf

This first volume in a catalogue raisonné of Tuymans's paintings surveys nearly 200 works from the vital early years of his career Credited with a key role in the revival of painting in the 1990s, Belgian artist Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) continues to produce subtle, and at times unsettling, works that engage with history, technology, and everyday life. This first volume in a catalogue raisonné of Tuymans's paintings surveys nearly 200 works that were vital to his artistic development. The years 1972 to 1994 witnessed the maturation of his signature method of painting from preexisting imagery--such as magazine images, Polaroids, and television footage--as well as his first solo exhibition. Also dating from this period are many of his seminal canvases, along with ten poignant portraits of the ailing human body and the enigmatic series Superstition that comprised his first works exhibited in the United States. The catalogue features brilliant new photography of each of the paintings and an illustrated chronology with archival images and installation shots of the works in this volume. This publication is a testament to Tuymans's persistent assertion of the relevance and importance of painting--a conviction that he maintains even in today's digital world, when his work continues to be a touchstone for artists and scholars.

Author : Art Institute of Chicago
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSC:32106011847750

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The Joseph Winterbotham Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago by Art Institute of Chicago Pdf

Author : Art Institute of Chicago
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art museums
ISBN : UCSD:31822036953990

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The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report by Art Institute of Chicago Pdf

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870994388

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Notable Acquisitions, 1984-1985 by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Kathryn Calley Galitz
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Painting
ISBN : 9781588392404

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Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Kathryn Calley Galitz Pdf

Author : Art Institute of Chicago
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300191882

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Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago by Art Institute of Chicago Pdf

Previous edition: Master paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago / selected by James Cuno. Chicago, Ill.: Art Institute of Chicago, 2009.