This publication features over fifty important medieval objects from the Art Institute of Chicago, including works from the early Christian era to the later Middle Ages, produced in Western Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world. These pieces originally adorned cathedrals, monasteries and chapels as well as courtly settings and homes, and many stand as expressions of religious faith. A catalogue section combines lavish color reproductions and short entries on a wide variety of works including glassware, carved ivories, illuminated manuscripts, metalwork, panel paintings, and sculpture.

Devotion & Splendor: Medieval Art At The Art Institute of Chicago

Arts & Photography

Nielsen, Christina

History & Criticism

Art Inst of Chicago

Painter, sculptor, and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett (b. 1915) played an influential role in America's African American and Mexico's revolutionary art communities in the mid-twentieth century. Catlett studied at the University of Iowa (where she briefly worked with Grant Wood), the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Art Students League in New York before moving to Mexico in 1947.Focusing on Catlett€™s evocative Negro Woman series from 1946€“47, this book reveals Catlett€™s commitment to social and political issues. All of the fifteen linoleum prints are beautifully reproduced and together address the harsh reality of black women€™s labor; renowned historical heroines such as Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and Phillis Wheatley; and the fears, struggles, and achievements of ordinary African American women. Other notable works by Catlett are also included, and an absorbing essay by distinguished scholar Melanie Anne Herzog analyzes the artist

Elizabeth Catlett: In the Image of the People

Herzog, Melanie Anne

This book is edited by Clare Phillips, Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, with essays by a team of leading jewellery historians. Their essays chart the transformation of the modest New York store, under Louis Comfort Tiffany, into a world leader; its artistic flowering under Louis Comfort Tiffany and the re-establishment of Tiffany as a great, international company following the Second World War. Full catalogue entries, all beautifully illustrated and many with specially commissioned photography, cover around two hundred pieces of jewellery dating from the 1850s to the 1980s.

Bejewelled by Tiffany 1837-1987

Recounting the biblical stories through visual images was the most prestigious form of commission for a Renaissance artist. In this book, Jules Lubbock examines some of the most famous of these pictorial narratives by artists of the caliber of Giovanni Pisano, Duccio, Giotto, Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, Donatello and Masaccio. He explains how these artists portrayed the major biblical events, such as: the Sacrifice of Isaac, the Annunciation, the Feast of Herod and the Trial and Passion of Jesus, so as to be easily recognizable and, at the same time, to capture our attention and imagination for long enough to enable us to search for deeper meanings. He provides evidence showing that the Church favoured the production of images that lent themselves to being read and interpreted in this way, and he describes the works themselves to demonstrate how the pleasurable activity of deciphering these meanings can work in practice. This book is richly illustrated, and many of its photographs have been specially taken to show how the paintings and relief sculptures appear in the settings, for which they were originally designed. Seen from these viewpoints, they become more readily intelligible. Likewise, the starting point and the originality of Lubbock's interpretations lies in his accepting that these works of art were primarily designed to help people to reflect upon the ethical and religious significance of the biblical stories. The early Renaissance artists developed their highly innovative techniques to further these objectives, not as ends in themselves. Thus, the book aims to appeal to students, scholars and the general public, who are interested in Renaissance art and to those with a religious interest in biblical imagery.

Storytelling in Christian Art from Giotto to Donatello

Lubbock, Jules

Bilingual (Spanish/English)José Guadalupe Posada (1851€“1913), one of Mexico€™s most important graphic artists, influenced the generation who lived through and pictured the Mexican Revolution. His powerful and visually arresting newspaper illustrations and woodcut broadsides€“€“whose subjects range from news to religion, from corridos (escapades of bandits and heroes) to calveras (skeletal figures associated with the Day of the Dead)€“€“reflect indigenous folk-art traditions. In these graphically powerful penny handbills, Posada responded to the political and social issues of his day, addressed cultural ills, and spread moral ideas.Focusing on the Art Institute of Chicago€™s impressive and previously unpublished collection of prints by Posada, this handsome book examines his work and places it in the larger context of Mexican printmaking in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With beautiful reproductions of Posada€™s for

Jose Guadalupe Posada And the Mexican Broadside/ Jose Guadalupe Posada Y La Hoja Volante Mexicana (English and Spanish Edition)

Miliotes, Diane

This book is the first in English devoted to Francois Duquesnoy, a central figure in seventeenth-century European sculpture, a rival to Bernini, and a leading light in an artistic milieu that included Poussin and Rubens. Estelle Lingo reconstructs Duquesnoy's pursuit in Rome of a modern artistic practice "in the Greek manner."Reconstruction of Duquesnoy's Greek ideal enables Lingo to offer new interpretations of his exquisite marble and bronze sculptures. Moreover, she demonstrates that the archeological and poetic vision of Greek art developed by Duquesnoy and his circle formed the basis of Johann Joachim Winclemann's influential Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture - thus overturning the long-held assumption that no meaningful distinction was made between ancient Greek and Roman art prior to Winckelmann's work in the eighteenth century. Examining in detail how Duquesnoy developed and employed his "Greek manner," Lingo brings to light the extent of his contributions to European culture and aesthetics, and to the rise of Neoclassicism.

Francois Duquesnoy and the Greek Ideal

Lingo, Estelle

Catalogue of an exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1991. Rich glazes, mottled patterns, delicate relief, and inventive shapes combine to instill English 18th-century pottery with considerable charms. In presenting a distinguished Chicago-area collection of English pottery, this exhibition and catalogue aim to make these attractions known to a wider public. The collection of Harry A. Root has been selected with sensitivity to the characteristic properties and appealing variety of these wares. The catalogue includes an essay by Mr. Root on how he came to begin his collection and is illustrated with beautiful color and black-&-white photographs.

Eighteenth-Century English Pottery: Selections From the Collection of Harry A. Root

Rita E. McCarthy

Rooted in Chicago: Fifty Years of Textile Design Traditions

Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies: Rooted in Chicago: Fifty Years of Textile Design Traditions.

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Art Institute Of Chicago

Crafts & Hobbies

Book by Josephson, Kenneth, Wolf, Sylvia, Lipscomb, Stephanie

Kenneth Josephson: A Retrospective

Josephson, Kenneth

Wolf, Sylvia

Lipscomb, Stephanie

Individual Artists

Museum Education at the Art Institute of Chicago explores the broad history and practice of art education, 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. Contributors include Danielle Rice, Director of Program at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Sylvia Rhor, art historian; Gregory Nosan, Museum Studies Editor; and Robert Eskridge, the Woman's Board Endowed Executive Director of Museum Education at the Art Institute.

MUSEUM EDUCATION AT ART INST IN CHICAGO

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