The Art Institute of Chicago
Museum Studies
Volume 19, no. 2 (Fall 1993)
Edited by Michael Sittenfeld
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, published twice annually, presents articles on the collections and history of the Art Institute. The objects discussed in this issue have been selected by James N. Wood, Director and President of the Art Institute, and are representative of the many important acquisitions made by the museum since 1980. One essay explores the history of Golden Bird, the renowned masterpiece by Constantin Brancusi. Another essay examines five recent Japanese acquisitions, including a portrait of Daruma, the first patriarch of Zen Buddhism, and three prints by Katsushika Hokusai. Other essays discuss the rich iconography of a West African drum by a Senufo master sculptor; a superb late nineteenth-century upright piano by the British designer Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott; and an intriguing still life by the American photographer Paul Strand.
Articles in this publication:
Anita J. Glaze, “Call and Response: A Senufo Female Caryatid Drum”
Margherita Andreotti, “Brancusi’s Golden Bird: A New Species of Modern Sculpture”
Ghenete Zelleke, “Harmonizing Form and Function: Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott and the Transformation of the Upright Piano”
James T. Ulak, “Japanese Works in the Art Institute of Chicago: Five Recent Acquisitions”
David Travis, “Paul Strand’s Fall in Movement”
207 pages, 8 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.
ISBN-13: 9780865591080
ISBN-10: 0865591083
