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Book Synopsis A Guide to Chicago's Murals by : Mary Lackritz Gray
Download or read book A Guide to Chicago's Murals written by Mary Lackritz Gray and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first definitive handbook to the treasures that can be found all over the city. Full-color illustrations of nearly two hundred Chicago murals and accompanying entries that describe their history, who commissioned them and why, how artists collaborated with architects, the subjects of the murals and their context.
Download or read book Urban Art Chicago written by Olivia Gude and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to the most visually stimulating and historically significant community public art projects in Chicago includes 130 full-color illustrations, with concise descriptions, historical background, and locations. Produced in cooperation with the Chicago Public Art Group, Urban Art Chicago effectively conveys the vibrancy of community public art (now a national phenomenon) and how it alters the relationship of artist to audience.
Book Synopsis A Guide to Chicago's Murals by : Mary Lackritz Gray
Download or read book A Guide to Chicago's Murals written by Mary Lackritz Gray and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering WPA murals to more current artwork, this handbook features full-color illustrations of nearly 200 Chicago murals with accompanying entries that describe their history. 204 color plates. 35 halftones.
Book Synopsis Guide to Chicago Murals by : Chicago Council on Fine Arts
Download or read book Guide to Chicago Murals written by Chicago Council on Fine Arts and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chicago Street Art by : Joseph J. Depre
Download or read book Chicago Street Art written by Joseph J. Depre and published by . This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art in Chicago written by Maggie Taft and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades now, the story of art in America has been dominated by New York. It gets the majority of attention, the stories of its schools and movements and masterpieces the stuff of pop culture legend. Chicago, on the other hand . . . well, people here just get on with the work of making art. Now that art is getting its due. Art in Chicago is a magisterial account of the long history of Chicago art, from the rupture of the Great Fire in 1871 to the present, Manierre Dawson, László Moholy-Nagy, and Ivan Albright to Chris Ware, Anne Wilson, and Theaster Gates. The first single-volume history of art and artists in Chicago, the book—in recognition of the complexity of the story it tells—doesn’t follow a single continuous trajectory. Rather, it presents an overlapping sequence of interrelated narratives that together tell a full and nuanced, yet wholly accessible history of visual art in the city. From the temptingly blank canvas left by the Fire, we loop back to the 1830s and on up through the 1860s, tracing the beginnings of the city’s institutional and professional art world and community. From there, we travel in chronological order through the decades to the present. Familiar developments—such as the founding of the Art Institute, the Armory Show, and the arrival of the Bauhaus—are given a fresh look, while less well-known aspects of the story, like the contributions of African American artists dating back to the 1860s or the long history of activist art, finally get suitable recognition. The six chapters, each written by an expert in the period, brilliantly mix narrative and image, weaving in oral histories from artists and critics reflecting on their work in the city, and setting new movements and key works in historical context. The final chapter, comprised of interviews and conversations with contemporary artists, brings the story up to the present, offering a look at the vibrant art being created in the city now and addressing ongoing debates about what it means to identify as—or resist identifying as—a Chicago artist today. The result is an unprecedentedly inclusive and rich tapestry, one that reveals Chicago art in all its variety and vigor—and one that will surprise and enlighten even the most dedicated fan of the city’s artistic heritage. Part of the Terra Foundation for American Art’s year-long Art Design Chicago initiative, which will bring major arts events to venues throughout Chicago in 2018, Art in Chicago is a landmark publication, a book that will be the standard account of Chicago art for decades to come. No art fan—regardless of their city—will want to miss it.
Book Synopsis Boarded Up Chicago: Storefront Images Days After the George Floyd Riots by : Zachary Slaughter
Download or read book Boarded Up Chicago: Storefront Images Days After the George Floyd Riots written by Zachary Slaughter and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first half of 2020, Americans endured the COVID_19 Crisis, quarantine, massive loss of lives and historic unemployment. Then the death of George Floyd, yet another unarmed black man, dead at the hands of police became too much for the citizens to bear. The people rioted across the country, property was looted and destroyed. Soon store owners would board up their looted or vulnerability businesses. Afterward, the local artist used those blank wooden boards as canvases to express themselves; here's what they had to say...
Book Synopsis “The” Art Institute of Chicago by : Wilson McBee
Download or read book “The” Art Institute of Chicago written by Wilson McBee and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Art Deco Chicago by : Robert Bruegmann
Download or read book Art Deco Chicago written by Robert Bruegmann and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expansive take on American Art Deco that explores Chicago's pivotal role in developing the architecture, graphic design, and product design that came to define middle-class style in the twentieth century Frank Lloyd Wright’s lost Midway Gardens, the iconic Sunbeam Mixmaster, and Marshall Field’s famed window displays: despite the differences in scale and medium, each belongs to the broad current of an Art Deco style that developed in Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century. This ambitious overview of the city’s architectural, product, industrial, and graphic design between 1910 and 1950 offers a fresh perspective on a style that would come to represent the dominant mode of modernism for the American middle class. Lavishly illustrated with 325 images, the book narrates Art Deco’s evolution in 101 key works, carefully curated and chronologically organized to tell the story of not just a style but a set of sensibilities. Critical essays from leading figures in the field discuss the ways in which Art Deco created an entire visual universe that extended to architecture, advertising, household objects, clothing, and even food design. Through this comprehensive approach to one of the 20th century’s most pervasive modes of expression in America, Art Deco Chicago provides an essential overview of both this influential style and the metropolis that came to embody it.
Book Synopsis The University of Chicago Magazine by :
Download or read book The University of Chicago Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Street Art World written by Alison Young and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Street art and graffiti are a familiar sight in all our cities. Giant murals commemorate historical events or proclaim the culture of a neighborhood, while tagged walls can function simultaneously as a claim to territory and a backdrop for an urban fashion shoot. Street Art World examines these divergent forms and functions of street art. This strikingly illustrated book explores every aspect of street art, from those who spray it into being to those who revel in it on Instagram, from its place under highway overpasses to one on the austere walls of high art museums. What exactly is street art? Is it the same as graffiti, or do they have different histories, meanings, and practitioners? Who makes it? Who buys it? Can it be exhibited at all, or does it always have to appear unsanctioned? Talking with artists, collectors, sellers, and buyers, author Alison Young reveals an energetic world of self-made artists who are simultaneously passionate about an authentic form of expression and ambivalent about the prospects of selling it to make a living—even a fabulously good one. Drawing on over twenty years of research, she juxtaposes the rise and fall of art markets against the vibrancy of the street and urban life, providing a rich history and new ways of contextualizing the words and images—some breathtakingly beautiful—that seem to appear overnight in cities around the world.
Download or read book Mural Manual written by Mark Rogovin and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Walls of Heritage, Walls of Pride by : James Prigoff
Download or read book Walls of Heritage, Walls of Pride written by James Prigoff and published by Pomegranate. This book was released on 2000 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIRTEEN COLONIES & THE LOST COLONY(tm) Take a step back and discover the thirteen colonies of Colonial America. From European exploration through the American Revolution, witness the unique history and character of each colony. Trace the role of each colony in the American Revolution and that colony's impact on the formation of our Constitution. Georgia - Using primary source documents that include the Charter of Georgia, a map of the colony circa 1725, period portraits, and newspaper articles, this fascinating book traces the history of the colony from its founding to its being the fourth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1788."Good organization, well-written text which reads like a story, numerous quotes and historic incidents, attractive format and well-designed pages, drawings, maps...all make this title a recommended source for studies in the colonial period of American history." - ASSOCIATION OF REG. XI SCHOOL LIBRARIANS, TEXAS
Book Synopsis Walls of Prophecy and Protest by : Jeff W. Huebner
Download or read book Walls of Prophecy and Protest written by Jeff W. Huebner and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walls of Prophecy and Protest is an illustrated history of the life, work, and legacy of famed Chicago muralist William Walker by Chicago arts journalist Jeff Huebner.
Book Synopsis The Wall of Respect by : Abdul Alkalimat
Download or read book The Wall of Respect written by Abdul Alkalimat and published by Second to None: Chicago Storie. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With vivid images and words, The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago tells the story of the mural on Chicago's South Side whose creation and evolution was at the heart of the Black Arts Movement in the United States.
Book Synopsis Painting the Gospel by : Kymberly N Pinder
Download or read book Painting the Gospel written by Kymberly N Pinder and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative and lavishly illustrated, Painting the Gospel offers an indispensable contribution to conversations about African American art, theology, politics, and identity in Chicago. Kymberly N. Pinder escorts readers on an eye-opening odyssey to the murals, stained glass, and sculptures dotting the city's African American churches and neighborhoods. Moving from Chicago's oldest black Christ figure to contemporary religious street art, Pinder explores ideas like blackness in public, art for black communities, and the relationship of Afrocentric art to Black Liberation Theology. She also focuses attention on art excluded from scholarship due to racial or religious particularity. Throughout, she reflects on the myriad ways private black identities assert public and political goals through imagery. Painting the Gospel includes maps and tour itineraries that allow readers to make conceptual, historical, and geographical connections among the works.
Download or read book Chicago Cable Cars written by Greg Borzo and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When most people hear "cable car" they think "San Francisco." Yet for almost one-quarter of a century Chicago boasted the largest cable car system the world has ever seen, transporting more than one billion riders. This gigantic public work filled residents with pride--and filled robber barons' pockets with money. It also sparked a cable car building boom that spread to twenty-six other U.S. cities. But after twenty-five years, the boom went bust, and Chicago abandoned its cable car system. Today, the fascinating story of the rise and fall of Chicago's cable cars is all but forgotten. Having already written the history of the "L," Greg Borzo guides readers through a stretch of Chicago's transit history that most people never knew existed--even though they have been walking past, riding over and even dining in remnants of it for years. . .
