Art in Chicago

by Cozzolino, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780943836294
• ISBN10: 0943836298
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-05
• Publisher: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine

Summary

Chicago is known as a center of innovation in architecture, literature and music, but Art in Chicagois the first broad overview of its twentieth-century fine art. It focuses on three distinct but overlapping generations of Modernists between 1913 and 1985--not just postwar artists such as Leon Golub and June Leaf, or later stars like Ed Paschke and Jim Nutt and the 1960s Hairy Who--not any one clique, but the links between them. Through the decades, Chicago's art world has had a predilection for variety and the authenticity of personal vision, which it consistently privileges over the emulation of trends or established styles. Art in Chicagoplaces this penchant within the context of the larger culture of Modernism, and examines both a cradle of artistic excellence and the issue of "regionalism" in Modern art and criticism. With illustrations of historically important paintings, some reproduced for the first time.

Table of Contents

Lenders to the Exhibition	p. 4
Foreword	p. 5
Introduction and Acknowledgments	p. 6
Chicago's Modernism	p. 9
Plates	p. 25
A Selected Bibliography of Chicago Modernism	p. 73
Works of Art in the Pennsylvania Academy	p. 78
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