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The Essential Guide Art Institute of Chicago
The Essential Guide Art Institute of Chicago Author:The Art Institute of Chicago This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Guide features 320 works of art, almost 150 of them new additions to the book, The entries, chosen by President and Eloise W, Martin Director James Cuno, represent some of the finest pieces from-and were selected with the assistance of-the museum's ten curatorial departments: African and Amerind... more »ian Art, American Art, Architecture and Design, Asian and Ancient Art, Contemporary Art, European Decorative Arts, Medieval through Modern European Painting and Sculpture, Photography, Prints and Drawings, and Textiles, Each work is reproduced in full color and discussed in a brief and lively entry, With an emphasis on modern and contemporary art, which will be featured in the Art Institute's new Modern Wing, opening in May 2009, this convenient volume offers the reader a generous sampling of the celebrated works of one of the country's most highly esteemed museums,« less