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
ISBN-13: 9780226389561
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Modernism (Art); Arts; Artists; Interviews; Modern movement (Architecture); History
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.