Print Publications

• 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.
• 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.
• Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection
• The Modern Wing: Renzo Piano and the Art Institute of Chicago
• The Prairie School: Design Vision for the Midwest (Museum Studies)
  Emerging in Chicago around 1900, the Prairie School was an architectural movement inspired by the flat, expansive landscape of the Midwest. This fascinating publication serves as a fine introduction to this widely influential vision of American design.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The Age of French Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago
• 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.
• 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.
• For Hearth and Altar: African Ceramics from the Keith Achepohl Collection
• Fashioning the Object: Bless, Boudicca, and Sandra Backlund
• The Holy Cow and Other Animals: A Selection of Indian Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago
  Within any collection of Indian paintings a great percentage will contain animal imagery. The aim of this book is to provide an account of the fascinating interaction between the realms of the animals and of the mortals and the immortals.