Print Publications

• Richard Hawkins: Third Mind
• 1945: Creativity and Crisis, Chicago Architecture and Design of the World War II Era
  This publication outlines the work of several architects, many of whom worked in and around the Chicago area, during and immediately after the war.
• 2001: Building for Space Travel
  This book accompanied a pathbreaking exhibition devoted to exploring the relationship between the products actually designed for space flight and the imaginary visions of such materials in science fiction, films, and television.
• Konstantin Grcic: Decisive Design
  This book highlights the hip, functional, and versatile furniture and products of Konstantin Grcic—widely recognized as one of the most important designers working today—and how they are transforming the landscape of contemporary design.
• Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life: Early Twentieth-Century European Modernism
  Beginning around 1910, vanguard artists demanded that true art go beyond the intellectual and transform daily life. This volume highlights the work of six influential European artists who took this idea into the wider world.
• Douglas Garofalo
  This handsome book presents the oeuvre of Douglas Garofalo, principal of Garofalo Architects, internationally renowned for its innovative residential, commercial, institutional, and public building projects.
• Benin: Royal Arts of a West African Kingdom
  The Kingdom of Benin, located in present-day southwestern Nigeria, has roots that stretch back as early as the 10th century. This volume features approximately 25 masterworks that reveal the breadth and depth of the kingdom’s artistic corpus.
• Ballplayers, Gods, and Rainmaker Kings: Masterpieces from Ancient Mexico
  Ballplayers, Gods, and Rainmaker Kings: Masterpieces from Ancient Mexico celebrates the bicentennial of Mexico’s independence from Spain and the centennial of the 1910 Revolution, which led to the creation of the modern Mexican republic.
• Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941–1945
  Windows on the War is a groundbreaking publication—the first in English to focus on posters designed by the Soviet Union’s TASS News Agency to bolster support for the Soviet war effort.
• Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977
  Photography played a critical role in conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s, as artists turned to photography as both medium and subject matter. Light Years offers the first major survey of the key artists of this period who used photography to new and inventive ends.
• Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention
  Bertrand Goldberg was a visionary Chicago architect whose designs for housing, urban planning, and industrial design made a distinctive mark in the modern era. Trace his development from his early Bauhaus training to his notable architectural achievements.
• Jasper Johns GRAY
  Jasper Johns: Gray aims to address the creation of both abstract and representational images imbued with the formal and conceptual associations of a single color.
• Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
• Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937–71
• The James VanDerZee Studio