The Art Institute of Chicago
Museum Studies
Volume 34, no. 1 (Spring 2008)
Edited by Gregory Nosan
Featuring more than fifty objects specially selected by President and Eloise M. Martin Director James Cuno, this issue of Museum Studies continues the Art Institute’s project of bringing its collecting activities into wide public view. Here, the museum’s curators and researchers take an extended look at important acquisitions made in 2006 and 2007, surveying an impressive range of works from the antique to the contemporary. Among the objects highlighted are a brilliantly painted female effigy from ancient Mexico; a sumptuous silk textile made by Muslim weavers in fifteenth-century Spain; a cubelike armchair that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for his own home; and a pair of expressive early canvases by Cy Twombly. Also included are important designs, paintings, photographs, and works on paper by artists as diverse as Piero di Cosimo and Nan Goldin. Filled with beautiful color illustrations and lively, accessible text, this publication is an indispensable guide to the newest and finest the Art Institute has to offer.
Articles in this publication:
“African and Amerindian Art”
“American Art”
“Architecture and Design”
“Asian Art”
“Contemporary Art”
“European Decorative Arts”
“Medieval through Modern European Painting and Sculpture”
“Photography”
“Prints and Drawings”
“Textiles”
96 pages, 8 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.
ISBN-13: 9780865592254
ISBN-10: 086559225X
