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This revised and expanded edition of the Essential Guide features more than three hundred objects that span the breadth of the museum’s esteemed collection. Each work is reproduced in full color and discussed in a brief and lively entry.
A rich and unprecedented exploration of Chicago’s embrace of Claude Monet’s modernism.
This publication, the first devoted exclusively to the Art Institute’s growing collection of film and video, will both record the emergence of a new medium over the last four decades and capture the current, quickly evolving state of the art.
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