Chicago makes modern
Subtitle: how creative minds changed society
By: edited by Mary Jane Jacob and Jacquelynn Baas
Publisher: School of the Art Institute of Chicago; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780226389561
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Modernism (Art); Arts; Artists; Interviews; Modern movement (Architecture); History
Description: "Chicago is a city dedicated to the modern—from the skyscrapers that punctuate its skyline to the spirited style that inflects many of its dwellings and institutions, from the New Bauhaus to Hull-House. Despite this, the city has long been overlooked as a locus for modernism in the arts, its rich tradition of architecture, design, and education disregarded. Still the modern in Chicago continues to thrive, as new generations of artists incorporate its legacy into fresh visions for the future. Chicago Makes Modern boldly remaps twentieth-century modernism from our new-century perspective by asking an imperative question: How did the modern mind—deeply reflective, yet simultaneously directed—help to dramatically alter our perspectives on the world and make it new?Returning the city to its rightful position at the heart of a multidimensional movement that changed the face of the twentieth century, Chicago Makes Modern applies the missions of a brilliant group of innovators to our own time. From the radical social and artistic perspectives implemented by Jane Addams, John Dewey, and Buckminster Fuller to the avant-garde designs of László Moholy-Nagy and Mies van der Rohe, the prodigious offerings of Chicago's modern minds left an indelible legacy for future generations. Staging the city as a laboratory for some of our most heralded cultural experiments, Chicago Makes Modern reimagines the modern as a space of self-realization and social progress—where individual visions triggered profound change. Featuring contributions from an acclaimed roster of contemporary artists, critics, and scholars, this book demonstrates how and why the Windy City continues to drive the modern world."--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Modern minds. Like minded: Jane Addams, John Dewey, and László Moholy-Nagy / Mary Jane Jacob; title: Better than before: László Moholy-Nagy and the New Bauhaus in Chicago / Maggie Taft; title: Moholy's upward fall / Ronald Jones; title: Designers in film: Goldsholl Associates, the avant-garde, and midcentury advertising films / Amy Beste; title: Modern mind and typographic modernity in György Kepes's language of vision / Michael J. Golec; title: From Chicago to Berlin and back again / Kathleen James-Chakraborty; title: Buckminster Fuller in Chicago: a modern individual experiment / Tricia van Eck; title: Keck and Keck: the Chicago modern continuum / Andreas Vogler and Arturo Vittori; title: Mies is in pieces / Ben Nicholson; title: Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle's reckonings with Mies / Elizabeth A.T. Smith; title: Artists' mind. My modern: experiencing exhibitions / Kate Zeller; title: Incomplete final checklist (unconfirmed) / Marcos Corrales; title: Lightplaying / Helen Maria Nugent and Jan Tichy; title: Mies as transparent viewing cabinet for Pancho's crazy façade / Ângela Ferreira; title: Bioline: activating the mundane / Walter Hood; title: Minding / J. Morgan Puett; title: End notes / Narelle Jubelin and Carla Duarte; title: Modernity retired / Staffan Schmidt; title: Design with conviction / Charles Harrison interviewed by Zoë Ryan; title: Life as art / Anna Halprin interviewed by Jacquelynn Baas; title: City of art / Michelangelo Pistoletto interviewed by Mary Jane Jacob; title: An outbreak of peace / Jitish Kallat interviewed by Madhuvanti Ghose; title: Raising the roof / Ai Weiwei interviewed by Jacquelynn Baas; title: Integrating art and life / artway of thinking  interviewed by Mary Jane Jacob.