Vol. 32, no.1
Featuring more than forty objects handpicked by President and Eloise
M. Martin Director James Cuno, this special issue of Museum Studies
continues the Art Institute's ongoing attempt to bring its collecting
activities into wide, public view. The publication takes an extended
look at important acquisitions made by each of the museum's ten
curatorial departments in 2004 and 2005, surveying a dazzling range of
works by artists both ancient and modern, ranging from architectural
models, rare books, and decorative arts to paintings, photographs, and
digital video installations.
Among the objects
highlighted are an imposing bronze ritual vessel from early
ninth-century China; a delicately rendered sixteenth-century nativity
scene by Fra Bartolommeo; Roy Lichtenstein's innovative, arresting
Mirror in Six Parts (1971); and paintings and works on paper by noted
artists such as Claude Monet, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Jasper Johns,
and Son Man-jin. Illuminated by generous, full-color reproductions and
a lively, accessible text, this is an indispensable guide to the newest
and finest the Art Institute has to offer.
The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006
8 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.; 96 pages; 65 illustrations
Softcover
$16.95 ISBN 0-300-11258-0
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