The Smart Museum of Art Bulletin
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Total Pages: 124
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David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago in Illinois, featuring over 7000 objects spanning five centuries of Western and Eastern civilizations. Provides information about exhibitions, events, the collection, educational programs, and membership. Posts contact information via mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail.
Vision and Communism
Author: Robert Bird
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2011-10-18
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1595588175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the last thirty years of the Soviet Communist project, Viktor Koretsky's art struggled to solve an enduring riddle: how to ensure or restore Communism's moral health through the production of a distinctively Communist vision. In this sense Koretsky's art demonstrates what an “avant-garde late Communist art” would have looked like if we had ever seen it mature. Most striking of all, Koretsky was pioneering the visual languages of Benetton and MTV at a time when the iconography of interracial togetherness was still only a vague rumor on Madison Avenue. Vision and Communism presents a series of interconnected essays devoted to Viktor Koretsky's art and the social worlds that it hoped to transform. Produced collectively by its five editors, this writing also considers the visual art, film, and music included in the exhibition Vision and Communism, opening at the Smart Museum of Art in September 2011.
The Allure of Matter
Author: Wu Hung
Publisher: Smart Museum of Art, the University of C
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780935573602
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This publication was produced by the Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, on the occasion of the exhibition The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China, curated by Wu Hung with Orianna Cacchione."
Feast
Author: Stephanie Smith
Publisher: Smart Museum of Art, the University of C
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780935573527
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe companion to a one-of-a-kind exhibition at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art explores the role of the meal in contemporary art. Feast offers the first survey of the artist-orchestrated meal: since the 1930s, the act of sharing food and drink has been used to advance aesthetic goals and foster critical engagement with the culture of the moment. Both exhibition catalogue and reader, this richly illus- trated book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the art of the meal and its relationship to questions about hospitality, politics, and culture. From the Italian Futurists' banquets in the 1930s, to 1960s and '70s conceptual and performative work, to the global prevalence of socially engaged practices today, Feast considers a diverse group of artists who have transformed the meal into a compelling artistic medium. After an introductory essay by curator Stephanie Smith, the book includes new interviews with over twenty contributing artists and reprinted excerpts of classic texts. It also features a selection of contextual essays contributed by an international group of critics, writers, curators, and scholars.
Beyond Green
Author: Stephanie Smith
Publisher: Smart Museum of Art, the University of C
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the ways in which sustainable development is being used by an emerging group of artists who combine fresh aesthetic sensibilities with constructively critical approaches to the production, dissemination, and display of their art, this book considers environmental issues in the context of art and design.
Claudia Wieser
Author: Rachel Adams
Publisher: Smart Museum of Art, the University of C
Published: 2021-01-05
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780935573633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClaudia Wieser's artistic practice draws from history, architecture, and design, often playing with time and space. Influenced by artists who embraced spirituality--such as Hilma af Klint, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee--she considers abstraction and physiological experience in her installations. The Berlin-based artist's practice includes hand-painted ceramics, carved wooden sculptures, tiled mirrored works, drawings, and site-specific wallpaper with images mined from her vast archive. Claudia Wieser: Generations highlights her first solo exhibition in the United States held at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and the Smart Museum of Art. Alongside images of her work, this publication features essays by curators Rachel Adams and Jennifer Carty and three interviews conducted by Maggie Taft, Igor Siddiqui, and Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy.
Drawings by Johann Michael Rottmayr (1654-1730)
Author: Edward Andrew Maser
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 144
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAwash in Color
Author: Chelsea Foxwell
Publisher: Smart Museum of Art, the University of C
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780935573510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCatalog of an exhibition held at Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Oct. 4, 2012 - Jan. 20, 2013.
Monster Roster
Author: John Corbett
Publisher: Smart Museum of Art, the University of C
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780935573480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMonster Roster: Existentialist Art in Postwar Chicago (on view at the Smart Museum in winter/spring 2016) will be accompanied by a comprehensive publication--the first of its kind--that includes an introductory essay by critic and collector Dennis Adrian; an overview of the Monster Roster by John Corbett; an essay about the historical context out of which the Monster Roster emerged by historian Thomas Dyja; a discussion of Monster Roster prints by art historian and curator Marc Pascale; an in depth look at Leon Golub's early work by art historian Jon Bird; and a personal response to the Monster Roster's work by contemporary artist Arlene Shechet. There will also be historic reprints of key texts including Franz Schulze's 1972 essay "Chicago: The Setting and the Group" from Fantastic Images: Chicago Art Since 1945 as well as Jean Dubuffet's lecture "Anticultural Positions" given at the Arts Club of Chicago in 1951. The publication will also contain full-color reproductions of all work on view in Monster Roster, a detailed chronology and exhibition history, and reproductions of ephemera and historical photographs.
