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  • Arms and Armor in the Art Institute of Chicago

    • ASIN: 0821222058
    • ISBN: 0821222058
    • Brand: Brand: Bulfinch Press
    • Manufacturer: Bulfinch Press

    The Art Institute of Chicago's George F. Harding Collection of arms and armor is one of the most popular exhibits in the museum, as well as one of the greatest collections of arms and armor in North America. Now, for the first time, these renowned treasures are presented in this handsome volume celebrating the richness of a lost art.This book is a ... [Read More]

  • Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago

    • ASIN: 0300151039
    • ISBN: 0300151039
    • Manufacturer: Art Institute of Chicago

    Presents 149 of the Art Institute's treasured European and American paintings, from the Renaissance to the 1990s, with each work reproduced in full colour and accompanied by a short, engaging text. This title also features a sampling of the museum's world-renowned collection of French Impressionist paintings.

  • Miniature Rooms: The Thorne Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago

    • UPC: 884933886852
    • ASIN: 0300141599
    • ISBN: 0300141599
    • Manufacturer: Art Institute of Chicago

    The Thorne Rooms, sixty-eight miniature models of European interiors from the 16th century on and American furnishings from the 17th century on, have entranced generations of visitors to the Art Institute of Chicago. This charming book showcases these rooms, featuring full-color views of each one as well as eight two-page spreads of some of the mos... [Read More]

  • Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America

    • ASIN: 0944092691
    • ISBN: 0944092691
    • Brand: Brand: Twin Palms Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Twin Palms Publishers

    The Tuskegee Institute records the lynching of 3,436 blacks between 1882 and 1950. This is probably a small percentage of these murders, which were seldom reported, and led to the creation of the NAACP in 1909, an organization dedicated to passing federal anti-lynching laws. Through all this terror and carnage someone-many times a professional phot... [Read More]

  • 111 Places in Los Angeles That You Must Not Miss Updated and Revised (111 Places in .... That You Must Not Miss)

    • ASIN: 3954518848
    • ISBN: 3954518848
    • Brand: Emons Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Emons Publishers

    Go beyond the glitz and glamour of Hollywood to discover the quirky culture of The City of AngelsPart of the international 111 Places/111 Shops series with over 150 titles and 1 million copies in print worldwide"In Los Angeles, everyone is a star." - Denzel WashingtonAdventures beckon!For more than a century, seekers of sun and celebrity from aroun... [Read More]

  • Art Deco Chicago: Designing Modern America

    • ASIN: 0300229933
    • ISBN: 0300229933
    • Manufacturer: Chicago Art Deco Society

    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... [Read More]

  • Fodor's Chicago (Full-color Travel Guide)

    • ASIN: B07MMZQ45J
    • Manufacturer: Fodor's Travel

    Written by locals, Fodor’s Chicago is the perfect guidebook for those looking for insider tips to make the most out their visit. Complete with detailed maps and concise descriptions, this Chicago travel guide will help you plan your trip with ease.Fodor's Chicago is the perfect companion for a trip to this quintessential American city. With color... [Read More]

  • Edward Hopper: The Art and The Artist

    • ASIN: 0393315770
    • ISBN: 0393315770
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    This sumptuous book presents the full range of Edward Hopper's work and offers greater access to Edward Hopper, the man, than any other single volume. Hopper is generally considered the major twentieth-century realist. Such paintings as House by the Railroad, Early Sunday Morning, and Nighthawks seem to embody the very character of our time. Yet fe... [Read More]

  • Hieronymus Bosch. Complete Works

    • ASIN: 3836526298
    • ISBN: 9783836526296
    • Brand: Fischer Stefan
    • Manufacturer: TASCHEN

    In the midst of the realist-leaning artistic climate of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516) was more than an anomaly. Bosch’s paintings are populated with grotesque scenes of fantastical creatures succumbing to all manner of human desire, fantasy, and angst. One of his greatest inventions... [Read More]

  • O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection

    • ASIN: 0500092990
    • ISBN: 0500092990
    • Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson

    The first exploration of the art that Georgia O'Keeffe retained for her personal collection, including works that have never been publicly exhibited. Georgia O'Keeffe was one of America's preeminent artists and one of the first to experiment with abstract form, though she never abandoned her deep response to and observation of nature. An enormously... [Read More]

  • 100 Years of Architecture in Chicago: Continuity of Structure and Form : Exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

    • ASIN: 0695808370
    • ISBN: 0695808370
    • Brand: Brand: Wilcox n Follett Book Co
    • Manufacturer: Wilcox & Follett Book Co

    Book by Grube, Oswald W.

  • Hudson River School: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

    • UPC: 884160360156
    • ASIN: 0300101163
    • ISBN: 9780300101164
    • Manufacturer: Yale University Press

    Hudson River School paintings are among America’s most admired and well-loved artworks. Such artists as Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, and Albert Bierstadt left a powerful legacy to American art, embodying in their epic works the reverence for nature and the national idealism that prevailed during the middle of the nineteenth century. This book fe... [Read More]

  • American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago: From World War I to 1955

    • ASIN: 0300117388
    • ISBN: 0300117388
    • Manufacturer: Art Institute of Chicago

    The first publication to focus on the Art Institute’s outstanding collection of American modernism, this volume includes over 175 important paintings, sculptures, decorative-art objects, and works on paper made in North America between World War II and 1955. Together they fully reflect the history of American art in these decades, including exam... [Read More]

  • Recarving China's Past: Art, Archaeology and Architecture of the "Wu Family Shrines" (American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum S)

    • ASIN: 0300107978
    • ISBN: 0300107978
    • Manufacturer: Other Distribution

    The “Wu Family Shrines,” one of the most important cultural monuments of early China, comprise approximately fifty stone slabs from the so-called Wu cemetery in Shandong province. Depicting emperors and kings, heroic women, filial sons, and mythological subjects, these famous carved and engraved reliefs may have been intended to reflect such ba... [Read More]

  • Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)

    • ASIN: 0300098804
    • ISBN: 0300098804
    • Manufacturer: Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • Weekends in Chicago: The Best in Arts, Entertainment, Eating, Drinking and More from the Chicago Tribune

    • ASIN: B00EN8P474
    • Manufacturer: Agate Digital

    Nearly 40 million people visit Chicago every year, but how many of them make a visit to Navy Pier and "The Bean" and call it quits? How many local residents and tourists from out of town scramble to make a compact itinerary of all Chicago has to offer? In a city with over 7,000 restaurants (including many of which that are world-class), more than 5... [Read More]

  • Waking Dreams: The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites from the Delaware Art Museum

    • ASIN: 0883971372
    • ISBN: 0883971372
    • Manufacturer: Art Services Intl

    Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include companion materials, may have some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, may not include CDs or access codes. 100% money back guarantee.

  • Expo - Magic of the White City

    • ASIN: B004S77VGW

  • Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set - Volume I & II: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs

    • ASIN: 0810935333
    • ISBN: 0810935333
    • Brand: Brand: Harry N. Abrams
    • Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams

    A lavish two-volume boxed set is a definitive catalogue of the artist's collection at the National Gallery of Art and is published to coincide with a major traveling exhibition.

  • Wandkings® Skyline wall sticker wall decal - 48.8 x 8.7 inch in black - Your city selectable - CHICAGO

    • ASIN: B015JA4WTU
    • Brand: Wandkings
    • Size: Chicago
    • Manufacturer: Wandkings

    Wandkings® Skyline wall sticker wall decal - 48.8 x 8.7 inch in black - Chicago You want to show each person for which city your heart beats? Then our unique Skylines are just the right thing for you. Whether you are looking for your place of residence, choose your favorite capital such as Boston, or if you want to stick your dream destination li... [Read More]

  • Top 10 museums in Chicago (Art Institute, Shedd Aquarium, Field Museum, and more)

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