Art Institute of Chicago

Mark Benjamin Godfrey

Offers a survey of the key artists of the 1960s and 1970s who used photography to new and inventive ends, including such acclaimed international artists as Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Mel Bochner, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman and Ed Ruscha.

Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977

Light Years

David Travis

Keith F. Davis

Elizabeth Siegel

One of Chicago's great cultural achievements, the Institute of Design was among the most important schools of photography in twentieth-century America. It began as an outpost of experimental Bauhaus education and was home to an astonishing group of influential teachers and students, including Lázló Moholy-Nagy, Harry Callahan, and Aaron Siskind. To date, however, the ID's enormous contributions to the art and practice of photography have gone largely unexplored. Taken by Design is the first publication to examine thoroughly this remarkable institution and its lasting impact. With nearly 300 illustrations, including many never-before published photographs, Taken by Design examines the changing nature of photography over this critical period in America's midcentury. It starts by documenting the experimental nature of Moholy's Bauhaus approach and photography's new and enhanced role in training the "complete designer." Next it traces the formal and abstract camera experiments under Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind, which aimed at achieving a new kind of photographic subjectivity. Finally, it highlights the ID's focus on conscious references to the processes of the photographic medium itself. In addition to photographs by Moholy, Callahan, and Siskind, the book showcases works by Barbara Crane, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Joseph Jachna, Kenneth Josephson, Gyorgy Kepes, Nathan Lerner, Ray K. Metzker, Richard Nickel, Arthur Siegel, Art Sinsabaugh, and many others. Major essays from experts in the field, biographies, a chronology, and reprints of critical essays are also included, making Taken by Design an essential work for anyone interested in the history of American photography. Contributors include: Keith Davis, Lloyd Engelbrecht, John Grimes, Nathan Lyons, Hattula Moholy-Nagy, Elizabeth Siegel, David Travis, Larry Viskochil, James N. Wood

Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971

Taken by Design

"David Adjaye, a major international figure in architecture and design, transforms complex ideas into approachable, innovative structures. The book contains an introduction by Okwui Enwezor and Zèoe Ryan; an essay by Adjaye himself; analyses of his master plans, transnational architecture, monuments and memorials, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.; and portfolios of his work, grouped by theme"--

Form, Heft, Material

David Adjaye

Brigitte Khan Majlis

This beautiful Museum Studies showcases over seventy remarkable examples of Indonesian textile art, a recent gift to the Art Institute from the E. M. Bakwin Collection. The featured works—including batiks, ikats, and other textiles—represent the finest examples of Indonesia’s rich textile production. Brigitte Khan Majlis, Indonesian textile expert, explores these objects not only as works of art––stunning products of both individual creativity and a long aesthetic tradition––but also as important artifacts that illuminate the history, beliefs, and lives of the people who make and treasure them.

The E.M. Bakwin Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago

The Art of Indonesian Textiles

Annual Report

Melanie Herzog

Elizabeth Catlett

Reveals Catlett's commitment to social and political issues. All of the fifteen linoleum prints are beautifully reproduced and address the harsh reality of Black women's labor.

In the Image of the People

Edward Hirsch

In this unique and lavishly illustrated gift book, famous writers, including John Updike, Wallace Stevens, Joyce Carol Oates, and Philip Levine, contribute poems and prose--most never before published--on artworks found in one of the country's preeminent museums. 70 illustrations, 63 in color.

Writers on Art

Transforming Vision

David Adler

Richard Guy Wilson

Pauline C. Metcalf

Kisho Kurokawa Gallery of Architecture

Ghenete Zelleke

A collection of photocopied articles published about the David Adler exhibition held at the Art Institute of Chicago, December 6, 2002 to May 18, 2003.

The Elements of Style

David Adler, Architect

Walter Hopps

Max Ernst

Werner Spies

William A. Camfield

Leven en werk tot 1927 van de Duitse schilder (1891-1976), een van de veelzijdigste kunstenaars uit de eerste helft van de twintigste eeuw.

Dada and the Dawn of Surrealism

Koenraad Brosens

Pascal-François Bertrand

Presents a catalog of the tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago, from the medieval age to Baroque, and explains designer and workshop attributions, design and source identifications, and provenance information.

European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago

James T. Ulak

The Art Institute of Chicago

Japanese Prints

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Nearly three hundred illustrations and a text reveal the entire range of the Vatican's artistic holdings, replete with priceless masterworks from all periods.

The Papacy and Art

The Vatican Collections

James B. Cuno

Martha Thorne

The Art Institute, Renzo Piano, Building for a New Century

Zero Gravity

An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago

Exhibition July 8 - September 11, 1978

European Portraits, 1600-1900, in the Art Institute of Chicago

Mrs. James Ward Thorne

American Rooms in Miniature

Handbook to the American Rooms in Miniature

Lisa Hostetler

Anne Tucker

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Addison Gallery of American Art

Kathleen V. Jameson

Museum of Photographic Arts (San Diego, Calif.)

"Louis Faurer was one of America's "quiet" photographers. Known for his raw, melancholy, and psychologically charged pictures of life on the street, and in particular for his evocative shots of 1940s and 1950s Times Square, New York, Faurer frequently drew on the film noir idiom to create memorable images. Photographs of moviegoers, box-office lines, ushers, and cinemas advertising B movies such as Force of Evil, Edge of Doom, and Ace in the Hole are recurrent themes." "Much of Faurer's best work, though, is of ordinary people, and he frequently haunted the streets of New York, finding poetry amid the crackle of the city. In an untitled picture taken in 1937 in Philadelphia, the trousers, jacket cuffs, and cane of a seated man are in sharp focus, as are a box of pencils and a sign announcing "I am totally blind." Hurrying past him are the blurred images of pedestrians. Other shots such as I Am Paralyzed, Daddy Warbucks, and Eddie combine a social and personal awareness that was rare for its time." "Faurer also worked as a fashion photographer for nearly thirty years, producing work for Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, and Flair, with a particular gift for highlighting his subject's ephemeral grace. He was a lasting influence on Robert Frank and other members of the New York school of photography." "This book, the first to examine Faurer's work in depth and bring it to a modern readership, draws together a great deal of previously unpublished material, as well as images not seen since they originally appeared in magazines in the 1940s and 1950s."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Louis Faurer

Art Institute of Chicago

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