Two Visionary Brothers: David and Alfred Smart

David and Alfred Smart were the Chicago-based founders of Esquire magazine, launched in 1933. Among brothers other passions was collecting modern art. This fully illustrated biography chronicles the Smarts' lives and professional innovations and their desire to put their success to philanthropic means, which culminated in the opening of the Smart Museum.

ART HISTORY
PB, 38 pp., illus.
2003, ISBN 0-935573-37-2
code: sma 2 L-5
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Blunt Objects

Blunt Objects features both well-known and emerging contemporary sculptors from Europe and the United States, who explore a recent shift in object making from the large-scale and epic to the vernacular, spunky, and blatant. Includes works by Tom Friedman, Charles Long, Franz West, Sarah Whipple, and Alan Wiener.

SCULPTURE
PB, 36 pp., illus.
1998, ISBN 0-935573-26-7
code: sma blu L-8

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Confronting Identities in German Art

The identity of an individual in a society is a state of understanding between tradition, shared memory, and experience. "Confronting Identities" explores how German artists created a visual culture in their homeland, visualizing an identity for German society through the last 200 years of its tumultuous history.

INTERNATIONAL ART
PB, 180 pp., illus. 2003, ISBN 0-935573-36-4
code: sma con L-7

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From Blast to Pop: Aspects of Modern British Art, 1915 - 1965

While Americans are familiar with Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Winston Churchill and the Beatles, they are less aware of British artists of the same era. From Blast to Pop works to rectify this oversight, introducing names like Helen Saunders, William Trumbull, and Eduardo Paolozzi in chapters that follow each successive British art movement in at their raucous excitement.

CONTEMPORARY ART
1997, 136 pp, illus code: sma fro L-8

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Robert Laurent: American Figurative Sculpture 1910-1960

This survey of Laurent's oeuvre traces the relationship between the artist's innovative approach and the emergence of American Figurative Sculpture in the early 20th Century. A pioneer in the concepts and techniques of "primitivism," direct carving, and abstraction made Laurent an important link between European Modern Art and avant-garde developments in America.

SCULPTURE
PB, 54 pp., illus.
19994, no ISBN
code: sma lau L-7

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Looking to Learn

Students of the University of Chicago, home to the Smart Museum, created an visual anthropology of their school's history. By addressing the ways in which objects, artifacts, and images have been collected, deployed, and displayed in teaching and academic research, the students display that way in which this museum keeps abreast of ever-evolving cultural trends.

ART HISTORY
PB, 64 pp., b&w illus.
1998, ISBN 0-935573-21-6
code: sma loo L-9

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Pious Journeys: Christian Devotional Art and Practice in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance

In fundamental ways, our modern habits of viewing historical artwork differ from those of the people who would have beheld of Christian spiritual objects and images in the later Middle Ages. "Pious Journeys" investigates the development of personal devotion, liturgies, and the cult of saints in religious art through the progress of centuries.

ART HISTORY, RELIGIOUS ART
PB, 90 pp., illus.
2001, ISBN 0-935573-30-5
code: sma pio L-7

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The Place of the Antique in Early Modern Europe

This book highlights the various contexts in which the rediscovery of the arts and culture of Ancient Greece and Rome inspired three centuries of European artists. Essays explore how the evolving conception of Antiquity influenced a range of artistic production from the 16th to 18th Century.

ART HISTORY
PB, 109 pp., illus.
1999, ISBN 0-9335573-28-3
code: sma pla L-7

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Post-Pop, Post-Pictures

Eleven young painters reveal a shift in abstraction away from the heroic brushwork emotional concerns ofthe '50s to a new style of painting that is more self-conscious and culturally-informed. All have forgone traditional materials in favor of mass-produced items in oil enamel, Varathane, spray paint, and Xerox paper.

PAINTING
PB, 31 pp., illus.
1997, ISBN 0-935573-20-8
code: sma po L-6

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See America First: The Prints of H.C. Westermann

This is the first catalogue raisonne of the prints of H.C. Westerman, a major figure in the post WWII artworld. Named for his most famous series of work, which features 18 caricatures of the all-encompassing American landscape and the endlessness of human desire. Please note: there are cartoon references to adult content.

PRINTMAKING
2001, 232 pp, illus
Softcover, ISBN 0-935573-34-8
code: sma see L-6

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The Theatrical Baroque

The intersections between theatre and the visual arts in 17th and early 18th Century Europe resulted in an intense interest in the power of illusion, as the arts of both stage and canvas tested the boundaries between reality and the imagination.

THEATER, ART HISTORY
PB, 70 pp., illus.
2001, ISBN 0-935573-29-1
code: sma the L-7

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Weimar Bodies: Fantasies about the Body in Weimar Art, Science, and Medicine

After WWI, German citizens were left with questions about their new identity and place within the world. Weimar Bodies brings together art and other imagery to explore the range of popular ideas that provide a sense of how Germany saw itself in the cracked mirror of history.

ART HISTORY
PB, 21 pp., b&w illus.
1998, ISBN 0-935573-23-2
code: sma wei L-7

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The Chicago Imagist Print: Ten Artists’ Works, 1958-1987

Appearing along with the exhibition Chicago Imagist Prints, this catalogue documents the total production of these prints and related posters and printed ephemera for the first time, and establishes a catalogue raisonné of ten artists’ printmaking. These artists—Roger Brown, Art Green, Philip Hanson, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Suellen Rocca, Barbara Rossi, and Karl Wirsum—are considered part of the post- World War II Chicago Imagist Movement that centers around a series of 1960s exhibitions at Chicago’s Hyde Park Art Center. The catalogue includes introductions to each of the artists along with an essay on printmaking in Chicago.

PRINTMAKING
1987, 8 x 11 inches, 216 pp, 20 color plates, 467 b&w images
Softcover, ISBN 0935573011
code: sma ten L-7

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Paper Museums: The Reproductive Print in Europe, 1500-1800

As relatively inexpensive, transportable, and storable objects, prints occupied an important place in early modern European culture. Many of them reproduced other works of art and we now call them "reproductive" prints. They were often considered to be of lower status than so-called "original" prints, yet in their initial historical and cultural context, reproductive prints were crucial to the forging of a common visual culture. Paper Museums offers an important interpretive survey of these remarkable works. The contributors to the volume explore the diverse range of uses for reproductive prints, including establishing printmakers' reputations as truthful and authoritative artists, promoting an artist's oeuvre or the holdings of a collector, and enabling the public to enjoy original works vicariously. The volume also analyzes issues such as the culture of the print workshop and, in particular, the status of female printmakers; truth and authenticity ascribed to the printed form; and the dissemination of antique forms through prints.

PRINTMAKING
2005, 8 x 11 inches, 168 pp, 8 color plates, 113 halftone illustrations
Softcover, ISBN 0935573402, ISBN-13: 9780935573404
code: sma repr L-8

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Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century

This catalogue accompanied the groundbreaking 1999 exhibition documenting major trends in current Chinese experimental art. Like the exhibition, the catalogue presents the paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos, and installations in three thematically linked sections: “Demystification,” “Ruins,” and “Transience”. The twenty-one featured artists come from different parts of mainland China or are living abroad in Europe and the United States, and their styles and modes of expression vary. Many of these artists derive materials, techniques, and concepts from both western and traditional Chinese aesthetics as they address the relationship between regionalism and globalization in contemporary art.

CONTEMPORARY ART
1999, 7 x 11 inches, 214 pp, 50 color plates and 65 b&w photographs
Softcover, ISBN 0226360717, ISBN-13: 9780226360713
code: sma trans L-6

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Transforming Images: The Art of Silver Horn and His Successors

This exhibition acknowledged the work of the important Kiowa artist Silver Horn (1860-1940), whose life spanned a remarkable period of change on the Southern Plains, from the nomadic existence of Native peoples following huge herds of bison to a new modern world of railroads, highways, and telephones after a brief era of forced settlement on reservations. The essays included in this exhibition catalogue situate Silver Horn’s works both within the context of other Kiowa warrior-artists of his generation, and as a key element of the legacy of this late nineteenth-century tradition among modern and contemporary Kiowa artists who work within a Euro-American cultural framework.

DRAWING
2000, 9 x 12 inches, 216 pp, 68 color plates and images, 8 b&w images
Softcover, ISBN 0935573313, ISBN-13: 9780935573312
code: sma horn L-7