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South Side Venus

The Legacy of Margaret Burroughs

By: Mary Ann Cain

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South Side Venus

The Legacy of Margaret Burroughs

By: Mary Ann Cain

The extraordinarily productive life of curator, artist, and activist Margaret Burroughs was largely rooted in her work to establish and sustain two significant institutions in Chicago: the South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC), founded in 1940, and the DuSable Museum of African American History, founded in her living room in 1961. As Mary Ann Cain's South Side Venus: The Legacy of Margaret Burroughs reveals, the primary motivations for these efforts were love and hope. Burroughs was spurred by her love for Chicago's African American community—largely ill served by mainstream arts organizations—and by her hope that these new, black-run cultural centers would welcome many generations of aspiring artists and art lovers. This first, long–awaited biography of Burroughs draws on interviews with peers, colleagues, friends, and family, and extensive archival research at the DuSable Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Chicago Public Library. Cain traces Burroughs's multifaceted career, details her work and residency on Chicago's South Side, and highlights her relationships with other artists and culture makers. Here, we see Burroughs as teacher and mentor as well as institution builder. Anchored by the author's talks with Burroughs as they stroll through her beloved Bronzeville, and featuring portraits of Burroughs with family and friends, South Side Venus will enlighten anyone interested in Chicago, African American history, social justice, and the arts.

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216

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Northwestern University Press

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0810137968

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9780810137967

Edwin Dickinson

Dreams and Realities

By: Douglas Dreishpoon,Edwin Walter Dickinson,Francis V. O'Connor,Mary Ellen Abell

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Edwin Dickinson

Dreams and Realities

By: Douglas Dreishpoon,Edwin Walter Dickinson,Francis V. O'Connor,Mary Ellen Abell

This work surveys Edwin Dickinson's life and career, both of which revolved around Cape Cod, Buffalo, and New York's Finger Lakes region. It covers the artist's influential career as a teacher, and analyzes Dickinson's self-portraits and major symbolic paintings.

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300

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Hudson Hills

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1555952143

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9781555952143

A Guide to Chicago's Murals

By: Mary Lackritz Gray

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A Guide to Chicago's Murals

By: Mary Lackritz Gray

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.

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524

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University of Chicago Press

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0226305996

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9780226305998

Birds of a Feather

Joseph Cornell's Homage to Juan Gris

By: Mary Clare McKinley

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Birds of a Feather

Joseph Cornell's Homage to Juan Gris

By: Mary Clare McKinley

Between 1953 and 1966, New York assemblage artist Joseph Cornell created more than twenty works in homage to Juan Gris, specifically inspired by the Cubist’s collage masterpiece, The Man at the Café(1914). Cornell’s Gris boxes have as their centerpiece the image of a bird, the great white-crested cockatoo, whose delightful and erudite connections to the Cubist’s oeuvre and to Cornell’s own hobbies, love of music, and distinctive approach to modern art are comprehensively documented here for the first time.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588396274

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9781588396273

Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

By: Lorraine Daston,Harvard Art Museums,Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art

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Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

By: Lorraine Daston,Harvard Art Museums,Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art

Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Harvard Art Museums, Sept. 6-Dec. 10, 2011, and the Block Museum of Art, Jan. 17-Apr. 8, 2012.

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442

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Harvard Art Museum.

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1891771582

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9781891771583

Brücke

German Expressionist Prints from the Granvil and Marcia Specks Collection

By: Reinhold Heller

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Brücke

German Expressionist Prints from the Granvil and Marcia Specks Collection

By: Reinhold Heller

This volume, published in conjunction with the Milwaukee Museum of Art's Granvil and Marcia Specks collection, presents a collection of the Museum's German Expressionist prints. German Expressionism refers to a creative movement beginning in Germany before the First World War that reached a peak in Berlin, during the 1920s. The author has included a body of imagery that reveals the myriad concerns of the age -- the joys and the pain of life in Germany from the 1890s to the 1930s. The prints of Kathe Kollwitz, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, George Grosz and Lionel Feininger are only a few of the wide range of artists whose work reflected the fragile years from the Second Empire to the rise of the Nazis. This work showcases etchings and drypoints of biting spontaneity and intensity, lithographs of corrosive ingenuity, and woodcuts to stir the soul heralded an era of individuality and democracy.

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321

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Mary & Leigh Block Gallery

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0941680088

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9780941680080

Mary Cassatt

By: Sophia Craze,Mary Cassatt

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Mary Cassatt

By: Sophia Craze,Mary Cassatt

This volume presents the life and works of American painter Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), with over 50 color plates of her artwork. In a Victorian age when most women were confined to the circumscribed world of marriage, homemaking and motherhood, Cassatt blazed like a shooting star across the firmament of the male dominated international art world. She was the only American, male or female, to become a member of the French Impressionists.

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120

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JG Press

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1572153407

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9781572153400

Eve's Daughter/Modern Woman

A Mural by Mary Cassatt

By: Sally Webster

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Eve's Daughter/Modern Woman

A Mural by Mary Cassatt

By: Sally Webster

Often regarded as merely the creator of sentimental images of mothers and children or an expatriate heavily influenced by Impressionism, Mary Cassatt is not typically regarded as an artist of radical convictions. This text re-evaluates these dismissals and presents a complete overview of her mural.

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182

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University of Illinois Press

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0252029062

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9780252029066

Book's by Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art

South Side Venus

South Side Venus

Edwin Dickinson

Edwin Dickinson

A Guide to Chicago's Murals

A Guide to Chicago's Murals

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather

Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

Brücke

Brücke

Mary Cassatt

Mary Cassatt

Eve's Daughter/Modern Woman

Eve's Daughter/Modern Woman

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