Selected and with a preface by James N. Wood
Commentaries by Debra N. Mancoff
Featuring over four hundred works of art, this is the most
comprehensive book ever published on one of America’s finest museums.
It represents cultures worldwide with objects in a variety of media,
dating from antiquity through the late twentieth century. The reader
will find not only many examples from the Art Institute’s encyclopedic
nineteenth-century French collection and its renowned
holdings of modern art, but also an extensive selection of African, Asian, and Classical art, American paintings, European and American
decorative arts and sculpture, photographs, prints and drawings,
textiles, and architectural drawings and models.
Each of the book’s
sections is organized by culture and chronology, and is accompanied by a
short, informative text and captioned images, all reproduced in full
color. Debra N. Mancoff’s introduction both summarizes the museum’s
history and examines the shifting definition, since the founding of the
Art Institute in the late nineteenth century, of what constitutes a
“treasure.” With its rich array of works, Treasures from the Art
Institute of Chicago allows audiences of all ages to enjoy, in one
volume, more of the museum’s holdings than ever before.
The Art Institute of Chicago, 2000
9 3/4 x 12 in; 344 pages; 449 color illustrations
Hardcover $34.95 ISBN 0-86559-202-0
Order online from the Art Institute Museum Shop or call 1-800-905-8537
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