This survey examines the work of 150 artists who have either lived or worked in Chicago, and ranges from painting, sculpture, photography and drawing to film, video and performance art. Essays by a range of art critics and historians consider the institutions, movements, attitudes and ideas that have shaped Chicago over the past 50 years, while ...
With its title taken from a signature work by Bruce Nauman, Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain presents a selection of approximately 190 works from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. A wide-ranging, insightful survey, arranged in roughly chronological order, it features work by such artists as Vito Acconci, Magdalena ...
H. C. Westermann's sculpture was heavily influenced by his experiences as a gunner's mate in World War II. This volume considers not only his work but the man himself--his love of the sea and his cabinetmaking skills.
Following the Senate rejection of US membership in the League of Nations, diverse groups of American internationalists launched a campaign to reverse this defeat of their ideals. This text traces their efforts during the interwar period; their political struggle and massive public opinion lobbying.
A photographic innovator and conceptual artist, Robert Heinecken played an important role in the development of contemporary art practice. That role is critically assessed in this exhibition catalog, which accompanies a major traveling retrospective organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. This volume, the first comprehensive book on ...
The "Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography" brings together this rich history in three volumes. It explores the vast international scope of twentieth-century photography and explains that history with a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary manner. This unique approach covers the aesthetic history of photography as an evolving art and ...
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