Jasper Johns: Gray

Jasper Johns (born 1930), one of today’s most acclaimed and influential artists, is rarely considered in relation to monochromatic art. Yet single-color experimentations have figured prominently in his production since 1955, and within that significant subset of his work, the majority of monochromes are gray. In fact, every one of his iconic, serialized forms has been articulated in gray. In conjunction with the exhibition Jasper Johns: Gray, this catalogue, spanning Johns’s full career, examines this singular preoccupation, presenting a revolutionary new understanding of and appreciation for the artist as an accomplished tonalist. The book features paintings, sculptures, drawings, lithographs, silk-screens, etchings, and aquatints—created in a wide array of gray media—as well as recent works published for the first time. Anchoring this essential publication are compelling essays which enrich our perspective on this prolific artist’s entire oeuvre.

CONTEMPORARY ART
2008, 10 x 13 inches, 320 pp, color illus
Hardcover, ISBN 978-0-300-11949-7
code: aic gray B-4
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Douglas Garofalo

Chicago-based architect Douglas Garofalo is one of the country's leading voices in the digital education and practice of architecture. One of the most prolific designers in this genre, his broad range of projects includes single-family residences, institutional buildings, and urban-scale designs. Garofalo's work illustrates how new typologies are changing the way architecture is fabricated and perceived in the twenty-first century. This catalogue accompanies Garofalo's solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, and features an essay by exhibition curator Joseph Rosa, the Institute’s John H. Bryan Curator of Architecture and Design.

ARCHITECTURE
2006, 8 x 5 inches, 95 pp, 72 color illus.
Softcover, ISBN 0300120583, ISBN-13: 9780300120585
code: aic gar J-1

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Young Chicago

Since the early Twentieth Century, Chicago has been a city that has continually fostered young design talent. This handsome exhibition catalogue—marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of what is today the Art Institute's Department of Architecture and Design—features 16 young architects and designers who showcase the depth and breadth of the city's design culture. The featured artists and their firms, including UrbanLab, JNL Graphic Design, Studio Blue, and Qua'Virarch, reflect exciting talents in industrial, furniture, and graphic design, as well as fashion and architecture—and represent the generation that is leading the city into the 21st century. This lavishly illustrated catalogue includes an essay by Joseph Rosa that traces the evolution of design in Chicago from its origins to today's "Young Chicago" and provides a fascinating and up-to-date look at contemporary architecture and design.

ARCHITECTURE/DESIGN
2006, 5 x 8 inches, 104 pp, 70 color illus
Softcover, ISBN: 9780300120677
code: aic yc J-1

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The Art of Indonesian Textiles

This beautiful Museum Studies catalogue showcases over seventy remarkable examples of Indonesian textile art, a recent gift to the Art Institute from the E. M. Bakwin Collection. The featured works—including batiks, ikats, and other textiles—represent the finest examples of Indonesia’s rich textile production. Brigitte Khan Majlis, Indonesian textile expert, explores these objects not only as works of art––stunning products of both individual creativity and a long aesthetic tradition––but also as important artifacts that illuminate the history, beliefs, and lives of the people who make and treasure them.

TEXTILES
2007, Volume 33, number 2, 8 x 10 inches, 112 pp, 130 color illus
Softcover, ISBN 9780300119466
code: aic ind J-1

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Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago

Featuring more than 40 objects handpicked by President and Eloise M. Martin Director James Cuno, this volume continues the Art Institute's ongoing attempt to bring its collecting activities into public view. The publication takes an extended look at important acquisitions made by the museum's curatorial departments and research library in 2006 and 2007, surveying a dazzling range of examples by artists both ancient and modern. Among the works highlighted are a voluptuous sandstone sculpture of a goddess from 12th-Century Cambodia; a spectacular figure of a vulture made by the Meissen manufactory for the personal “porcelain menagerie“ of its royal founder; a poplar and leather armchair designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for use in his home and studio; and Searching for Mountains No. 2, an elegant painting by the contemporary Chinese artist Wucius Wong. Enlivened by full-color reproductions and an engaging, accessible text, this is an indispensable guide to the newest and finest that the Art Institute has to offer.

ANCIENT ART/CONTEMPORARY ART
2008, 8.5 x 10 inches, 96 pp, 95 color illus. Softcover, ISBN 978-0-86559-225-4
code: aic acq J-6

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What’s New, Prague: Contemporary Photography from Czechoslovakia

The cultural intensity and the social contradictions of Prague’s recent past have combined to create a photography so great in its variety that it seems to contain in microcosm all the possibilities of the medium’s history. The Velvet Revolution of 1989 swept the Communists out of power and brought about the first freely elected government the Czechs have had since the period between the world wars. Until 1989, photography was, in fact, an art form the authorities tried to close off to the outside world much as they did Czech society at large. In this presentation of a group of contemporary photographers, curator Colin Westerbeck often places examples of works made before the revolution next to works made since. What these comparisons reveal is not how much the work has changed, but how little. Indeed, these artists have formed their views largely as a reaction to Communist oppression and are still working through feelings instilled in that period.

PHOTOGRAPHY
1992, 9 x 11 inches, 33 pp, b&w images
Softcover, ISBN 0-86559-114-8
code: aic czec J-6