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Featuring over 100 watercolors, 25 of which have rarely been seen, this comprehensive volume provides a new appreciation of Ho...

With works by El Greco, Rogier van der Weyden, and many others, this important volume documents the Art Institute’s significant collection of English, French, German, Netherlandish, and Spanish paintings created before 1600.

An intriguing and elegant look at Johns’s sustained exploration of the color gray in paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture over the past 50 years.

The Art Institute of Chicago has one of the largest and finest holdings of late 19th-century French art in the world. This lavishly illustrated book features over ninety paintings—nearly the entire collection—engagingly discussed in terms of the context in which so much memorable art was produced. It offers a fascinating overview of the Impressionist move...

With archival documents and photographs, this unique book analyzes conceptual artist Michael Asher’s 1979 and 2005 installations at the Art Institute and examines his challenging artistic process.

This fascinating book provides the first overview of Mel Bochner’s language-based works from the past 40 years and features many previously unpublished images and projects.

This two-part, artist-designed publication documents in detail Manders’s 2003 debut exhibition in American museums and surveys his remarkable and provocative oeuvre to date.

This beautiful volume showcases over 70 remarkable examples of Indonesian textile art that reflect the region’s rich ethnic and cultural complexity.

With astounding works by such artists as Watteau, Cézanne, Degas, Gauguin, Monet, Turner, Modigliani, Mondrian, Matisse, and Picasso, this book celebrates one of the country’s most impressive collections of drawings.

In this wide-ranging book, Victorian-era objects from the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago are explored in detail. Highlights include British and American furniture, paintings, textiles, photographs, and works on paper by such noted artists as Julia Margaret Cameron, John Everett Millais, and William Morris.

 

A provocative look at the complex and varied ways photographers Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Larry Sultan use their own daily experiences as inspiration for their art.

This fascinating volume investigates how conservation professionals unite research, craft, and technology, working to protect art objects and further art-historical knowledge. Highlighting conservation efforts at the Art Institute of Chicago, the authors discuss the challenges of the profession and present case studies on works ranging from books and furniture to paintings and sculpture.

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This book showcases the museum’s impressive collection of Old Master paintings, works on paper, tapestries, textiles, and sculptures––including recent acquisitions––and presents new discoveries and scholarship.

This striking book examines Posada’s powerful and visually arresting newspaper illustrations and broadsides, placing them in the context of life and art in late 19th- and early 20th-century Mexico.

Bilingual (Spanish/English)

Focusing on over 40 objects ranging from ancient to contemporary, this volume explores the historical and metaphorical significance of the Silk Road, an important early network of trade routes that extended from Asia to the Mediterranean Sea.

This new Museum Studies volume features significant acquisitions made by the Art Institute of Chicago over the past two years, bringing into wide public view the recent collecting activities of one of America’s most prestigious museums.

The forty highlighted works––which have been chosen by the museum’s director–range in date from ancient to moder...

Presenting over 100 unparalleled ceramic works largely produced in Iran and Iraq, this handsome book documents the extraordinary achievements in Islamic pottery from the 9th to 14th century.

With recent work by a range of contemporary international architects, designers, and studios––including Herzog & de Meuron and Zaha Hadid––this book explores the use of figurative characteristics in the design arts.

Featuring important and up-and-coming artists from Chicago, this book celebrates the depth and breadth of the city's design culture––from industrial, furniture, and graphic design to fashion and architecture.

A beautiful presentation of work to date by this principal of Garofalo Architects, internationally renowned for its innovative residential, commercial, public, and institutional projects.

This exquisite book presents an impressive group of African ceramics from the renowned Keith Achepohl collection. It features works spanning the entire continent and dating from the third to the mid-twentieth century. Together, they demonstrate the longstanding and intimate connection between pottery and village life, secular and sacred, in Africa.

 



 

This lavishly illustrated volume focuses on the unique ceramic works of the Casas Grandes-Paquimé of northwest Mexico and adjoining areas of New Mexico and Arizona. Ninety superb examples of these vessel—created from A.D. 1200–1400—are examined and placed within the native southwestern cultural tradition.

Presenting revelatory new information on the art and cultures of ancient Native Americans in the midwest and southeast United States, this book features a stunning selection of artworks, artifacts, and ritual objects, ranging from 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1500.

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With nearly 200 captivating photographs that span the entire scope of his artistic production––from fashion and commercial editorials to his iconic series of nudes and portraits––this stunning book examines Irving Penn’s remarkable career.

In the early twentieth century, a new generation of photographers found in Paris the perfect environment for innovation. This book is a tribute to the "City of Light" and the photography it inspired, drawing on the remarkable collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. The book includes works by Eugène Atget, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, and ot...

This prizewinning two-volume study presents the lithographic work of James McNeill Whistler in thorough technical and contextual detail. Volume I, a catalogue raisonné, contains entries for each of Whistler’s 179 lithographs and is illustrated with reproductions of near-facsimile quality. The essays situate Whistler’s work in lithography within a broader art-historical context.

This stunning book is the first publication devoted entirely to The Art Institute of Chicago’s exceptional holdings of Chinese textiles, and is an essential reference source for all those interested in the design and cultural significance of these brilliant artifacts. Richly illustrated with full-color reproductions, this book showcases approximately eighty important objects––inc...

For the first time in its long history, The Art Institute of Chicago has published a catalogue highlighting its extensive collection of American arts. Among the two hundred works featured in this landmark publication are paintings by Cassatt, Copley, Eakins, Homer, and Sargent; sculptures by Greenough and Saint-Gaudens; and decorative art pieces including furniture and silver from the colonial era...

This special, expanded issue of Museum Studies focuses on the museum’s increasing collection of works by African Americans. Essays on the work of such influential artists as Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Marion Perkins, and Lorna Simpson are presented along with an article on the Art Institute’s striking daguerreotype of Abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass. In addition to these e...

This striking publication features important works of medieval art ranging from the early Christian era to the later Middle Ages, from both Western Europe and Byzantium. An introductory essay by Christina Nielsen focuses on the Art Institute's history of notable medieval acquisitions, including items from the famous Guelph Treasure, which captivated American audiences in the 1930s.

American architect David Adler’s designs reflected the enormous range of his stylistic expression, from Stuart-style and English half-timber stately residences to a Colonial New England farm house. This book features seventeen important homes and a private club designed by Adler. Beautifully illustrated with new and archival photographs accompanied by architectural plans, the book also highl...

Featuring over four hundred works of art, Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago is the most comprehensive book ever published on one of the world’s foremost museums. In this lavish volume, cultures worldwide are represented by objects in many media and periods––from antiquity through the late twentieth century.

The Japanese photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto received his art education in the late 1940s and early 1950s at the Institute of Design in Chicago, where he studied under Harry Callahan. Ishimoto’s photographs of Chicago document a period of profound political and cultural change and record the character of the city from its lakefront beaches and downtown streets to its South Side neighborhoods....

This new edition of a favorite volume presents 149 of the Art Institute’s treasured European and American paintings, from the Renaissance to the 1990s, with each work reproduced in full color and accompanied by a short, engaging text. A generous sampling of the museum’s world-renowned collection of French Impressionist paintings is featured, along with many earlier European examples, f...

The Art Institute of Chicago’s collection of Impressionist and Postimpressionist art embraces the stylistic and thematic variety of these influential and much-loved movements. This book presents full-color reproductions of 150 oil paintings, watercolors, prints, drawings, and sculptures, each accompanied by a brief, informative entry. Selections range from early seascapes by Monet to Seurat&...

An overview of the Art Institute’s expanding collection of film, video, and new media art.

This book presents exquisite working drawings, preparatory sketches, and finished compositions from the Renaissance and Baroque periods by artists including Parmigianino and Raphael.

This book examines the extraordinary artworks––which range from cast bronze figures and altar heads to ivory tusks––from the African Kingdom of Benin, which flourished during the 15th century.

A lavishly illustrated presentation of previously unpublished medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque tapestries from the foremost European workshops.

A look at the notable projects and commissions of this London-based design firm, whose clients include the Tate museums and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.

Sixty-eight miniature models of European interiors from the 16th century on and American furnishings from the 17th century on are featured in this delightful book from the Art Institute of Chicago.