The Art Institute of Chicago
Museum Studies
Volume 10, 1983
Edited By Susan F. Rossen
The Art Institute of Chicago Centennial Lectures commemorates the 100th anniversary of Chicago’s great museum. Sponsored by the Art Institute’s Auxiliary Board, it includes 18 essays on a fascinating range of subjects, all of which reflect in some way the museum’s outstanding and richly varied collections and curatorial departments. Whatever your interests– be they early 20th-century photography, Thomas Eakins or Grant Wood, Nigerian art, Greek mythology, Japanese woodblock prints, Renaissance drawings, the plan of Chicago, the legacy of the Art Institute’s early and farsighted patrons–you will find many stimulating and insightful articles in this deluxe commemorative volume.
Articles in this publication:
John Boardman, “Atalanta”
Karl Schefold, “Roman Visions and Greek Inventions at the Foot of Mount Vesuvius”
John Shearman, “The Organization of Raphael’s Workshop”
Sydney J. Freedberg, “A Fugue of Styles: Roman Drawings of the Sixteenth Century”
Ellis Waterhouse, “Earlier Paintings in the Earlier Years of the Art Institute: The Role of the Private Collectors”
Wendy Hefford, “The Chicago Pygmalion and the ‘English Metamorphoses’”
Gilliam Wilson, “A Late Seventeenth-Century French Cabinet at the J. Paul Getty Museum”
Lorenz Eitner, “Géricoult’s Compositional Method: Sketches for the Farrier’s Signboard in the Art Institute”
Jeffrey Weidman, “William Rimmer: Creative Imagination and Daemonic Power”
Evan Turner, “Thomas Eakins: The Quest for Truth”
John W. Reps, “Burnham Before Chicago: The Birth of a Modern American Urban Planning”
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, “Michael Asher and the Conclusion of Modernist Sculpture”
Pratapaditya Pal, “The Divine Image and Poetic Imagery in Gupta India”
Roger Keyes, “Hokusai’s Illustrations for the 100 Poems”
Susan Mullin Vogel, “Rapacious Birds and Severed Heads: Early Bronze Rings from Nigeria”
358 pages, 8 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.
ISBN-13: 9780226028118
ISBN-10: 0226028119
