Product Description: During the economic boom of the 1990s, art museums expanded dramatically in size, scope, and ambition. They came to be seen as new civic centers: on the one hand as places of entertainment, leisure, and commerce, on the other as socially therapeutic institutions...read more

Product Description: This book appears in conjunction with an exhibition organized by The Art Institute of Chicago that focuses on the late work of photographer Edward Weston. Taken between1938 and 1948, these images reveal his shift from his formalist style, characterized by technological virtuosity and innovative compositions, to one that accommodated a greater psychological component...read more

Product Description: At last a comprehensive, full-color volume joins Hudson Hills Press's successful series of books on one of the world's greatest art museums.

Product Description: The Art Institute of Chicago owns one of America's finest collections of Impressionist art, and its greatest masterpiecees are now brought together in one volume. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Here, all in full color and accompanied by individual essays, are 149 European and American masterpieces from one of the world's great museums. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This revised, expanded, and redesigned edition of a best-selling book from the Art Institute of Chicago features many favorite paintings from the collection—approximately 150 works from Europe and the Americas, ranging from the 15th to the early 21st century...read more

Product Description: This volume presents 149 of the museum's greatest European and American paintings from 1400 to the 1980s. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With this attractively designed little volume, even the most confirmed armchair traveller can tour one of the world's finest art collections. The 300 full-colour illustrations have been carefully chosen by the museum's director to highlight the very best of this outstanding collection...read more

Product Description: One of the world's great collections of modern art in a full-color treasury.

Product Description: From the Director of the Art Institute of Chicago comes a fascinating and handsomely illustrated miniature book which presents well-loved masterpieces of modern art. 300 full-color illus.