The catalogue for an exhibit at the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, February to June 1992. Lists, illustrates, and describes nearly 300 artworks created 1840-1940 as facsimiles of ancient Irish artifacts, or in their style. The pieces include painting and sculpture, jewe

Imagining an Irish Past: The Celtic Revival 1840-1940

Arts & Photography

David and Alfred Smart Museum Of Art

History & Criticism

Smart Museum Of Art, The University Of C

From Blast to Pop: Aspects of Modern British Art, 1915-1965 charts the complex trajectory of modernism in Britain, from the 1914 Vorticist manifesto published in the short-lived journal Blast to the emergence of British Pop art in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This catalog of an exhibition shown at the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, includes entries by Richard A. Born on 100 paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures; an essay by Keith Hartley of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; and a bibliography, as well as 13 color and 101 black-and-white illustrations.

From Blast to Pop: Aspects of Modern British Art, 1915-1965

Born, Richard A.

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, psychological intensity, and spatial distortion characteristic of the German tradition. He later became concerned with a spiritualism rooted in a universal humanism and communion with nature. Documenting the Diaspora of the Jews and embodying modern notions of "exoticism" and "primitivism" in modern art, Segall's work presents a range of issues significant to today's global culture and politics.

Still More Distant Journeys: The Artistic Emigrations of Lasar Segall

D'Alessandro, Stephanie

Individual Artists

Looking to Learn, an exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, challenges the decontextualized approach to images and learning by setting ritual, functional, and intentionally aesthetic objects side by side, together with inventories, technical viewing devices, photographs of ceremonial practices deploying the objects, printed materials representing them, and records and fragments of some of the environments to which they have belonged. The resulting installations probed the ways in which objects, artifacts, and images have been collected, deployed, and exhibited in teaching, research, and self-representation from the earliest days at the University.

Looking to Learn: Visual Pedagogy at The University of Chicago

Seidel, Linda

Taylor, Katherine

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 documents the exhibition and helps to facilitate viewers' reflections and responses about the spaces, sights, and selves that enable us to construct and question our identity.

Space/Sight/Self

Bloom, Elizabeth

Letinsky, Laura

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 study of the Smart's collection, this catalogue presents a selection of the museum's antiquities and provides a historiographical introduction that traces the formation of the collection in relationship to the pedagogical ideas of the University of Chicago. Serving as a factual and functional guide, this catalogue serves classicists and art historians, as well as the museum's many visitors.

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

Architecture

Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century is a groundbreaking and timely exhibition organized by The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Chicago. Guest curator Wu Hung, a leading expert on ancient and contemporary Chinese art, identified three critical aspects of current artistic production in China and tightly focused the exhibition to explore those themes—"Demystification," "Ruins," and "Transience." With its concentration on individual artists through close readings of specific works, Transience constitutes a new voice in the current discussion about contemporary Chinese art and its place in post-national cultural understanding.

Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, Revised Edition

Hung, Wu

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 antiquity on a broad spectrum of artistic production in Europe, from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. They include investigations of proto-scientific imagery, Ovidian myth, allegorical devices, the papal banquet, and the growing importance of Greece to understandings of the ancient world. Together, these essays reveal much about the continual remaking of the antique in the visual culture of Europe.

The Place of the Antique in Early Modern Europe

ROWLAND

Craig Hanson

Allie Terry

The late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are frequently labeled the age of theater. Throughout western Europe, the dramatic arts attained new heights of cultural prestige, political importance, and commercial success. This series of essays investigates the dialogue between the newly invigorated theater and the plastic arts. Discussed are the interactions between spectator and spectacle, social performance and the staging of the individual, the shaping of space and time, and the debates over the relationship that visual and theatrical representations have to the objects they portray.

The Theatrical Baroque

In their ongoing search for divinity, Western European Christians followed many different paths to a personal connection with the eternal, including the intimacies of private prayer, the spectacle of the Mass, and the veneration of saintly relics. Along the way, art objects and artifacts served as companions, guides, and comforts. The essays in this catalogue consider the central role objects and images played in these spiritual journeys. They investigate imagery's critical role in the development of personal devotions, in the organization of liturgical worship, and in practices surrounding the institution of the Eucharist and the cult of saints.

Pious Journeys: Christian Devotional Art and Practice in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance

Religion & Spirituality

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