Books by Art Institute of Chicago
Yasuhiro Ishimoto: A Tale of Two Cities
by Colin Westerbeck, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Arata Isozaki, Fuminori Yokoe, Art Institute of Chicago
Although he is a Japanese photographer who has lived in Tokyo for more than 45 years, Yasuhiro Ishimoto received his art education in the late 1940s and early 1950s at the Institute of Design in Chicago, where he studied under Harry Callahan. Ishimoto's photographs of Chicago document a period of profound social, political, and racial change and record the character of the city from its lakefront beaches and downtown streets to its South Side neighborhoods. Ishimoto returned to Japan in 1953 and began a documentation of Tokyo. In his work, Tokyo and Chicago have become sister cities in the personal vision of an artist whose patience as a photographer and tenacity of observation have enabled him to produce the extraordinary body of work evident in such books as Someday Somewhere and Chicago, Chicago. He has also produced two books on Katsura villa, another on flowers, and several others on Japanese subjects.Large as is the range of Ishimoto's tale of two cities, in recent years another side of his sensibility has come to the fore in very subtle studies of rotting leaves, footprints in snow, cloud formations, and wind-ruffled water at his feet. Now 77, Ishimoto is revealing a meditative dimension that has brought him recognition as a Person of Cultural Distinction in Japan and serious regard worldwide for his artistic achievements.
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Lo Que Puede Venir El Taller de Gráfica Popular Y El Grabado Político Mexicano
by Art Institute of Chicago, Diane Helen Miliotes
Established in Mexico City in 1937, the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Art Workshop) sought to create prints, posters, and illustrated publications that were popular and affordable, accessible and politically topical, and above all formally compelling. Founded by the printmakers Luís Arenal, Leopoldo Méndez, and American-born Pablo O'Higgins, the TGP ultimately became the most influential and enduring leftist printmaking collective of its time.
The workshop was admired for its prolific and varied output and for its creation of some of the most memorable images in midcentury printmaking. Although its core membership was Mexican, the TGP welcomed foreign members and guest artists as diverse as Josef Albers and Elizabeth Catlett. The collective enjoyed international influence and renown and inspired the establishment of similar print collectives around the world. This bilingual publication features twenty-four works representing the finest linocuts and lithographs from the heyday of this important workshop. These arresting images are drawn from the significant holdings of TGP works in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Color the Classics: The Art Institute of Chicago: (Adult Coloring Book) (Adult Coloring Books)
Color Your Own Masterpiece!
Color the Classics lets you put your own creative spin on 30 masterpieces—including Grant Wood's American Gothic and Claude Monet's Water Lilies—from the Art Institute of Chicago's vast collection. Replicate the classics or add your own creative flair to masterpieces admired for centuries.
Featured artists include Pablo Picasso, Georgia O'Keeffe, Katsushika Hokusai, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, and many more.
Relieve the stress of your day with this beautiful coloring book, and make your own classics!
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