Detroit Institute of Arts

Treasures of the DIA: The Detroit Institute of Arts

Detroit Institute of Arts; Debra N. Mancoff; John Beal; Detroit Institute of Arts Staff

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After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting

Detroit Institute of Arts; High Museum of Art

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The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence

Detroit Institute of Arts; Cristina Acidini; Art Institute of Chicago; Palazzo Strozzi

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Degas and the Dance

Detroit Institute of Arts; Jill De Vonyar; Richard Kendall; Edgar Degas; Philadelphia Museum of Art

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L'ombra Del Genio: Michelangelo E L'arte a Firenze 1537-1631

Detroit Institute of Arts; Marco Chiarini; Art Institute of Chicago; Alan Phipps Darr; Cristina Giannini

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The Medici, Michelangelo, & the Art of Late Renaissance Florence

Detroit Institute of Arts; Art Institute of Chicago; Cristina Acidini; Palazzo Strozzi

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Gordon Newton: Selections from the James F. Duffy Jr. Gift

Detroit Institute of Arts; Gordon Newton; Mary Ann Wilkinson; Nancy Sojka; Judith Ruskin; the Detroit Institute of Arts

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Van Gogh Face to Face: The Portraits

Detroit Institute of Arts; Vincent Van Gogh; Judy Sund; Lauren Soth; Joseph J. Rishel; Roland Dorn; George T. M. Shackelford; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; George Keys

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The Fine Art of Wood: The Bohlen Collection

Detroit Institute of Arts; Bonita Fike; Mike Mendelson

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Terry Winters Prints 1982-1998: A Catalogue Raisonne

Detroit Institute of Arts; Terry Winters; Nancy Sojka; Nancy Watson Barr; Richard H. Axom

Terry Winters, a native of Brooklyn, is one of the leading painters and printmakers of his generation.

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American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: Works by Artists Born 1816-1847

Detroit Institute of Arts; Elizabeth Broun

A treasury of American masterpieces.

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Common Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings of Ben Shahn

Detroit Institute of Arts; Susan Chevlowe; Ben Shahn; Allentown Art Museum; N.Y.) Jewish Museum (New York; Diana L. Linden

Susan Chevlowe opens this beautifully illustrated book by situating Shahn's art in the context of his long and remarkable career, stimulating new critical and popular interest in his compelling late works. 32 color plates.

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American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts

Detroit Institute of Arts; Mary Black; Nancy Rivard Shaw; Founders Society

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Images in Ivory: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age

Detroit Institute of Arts; Md.) Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore

The exhibition catalog is the first survey of Gothic ivories in English. It contains essays by seven leading international scholars, including Peter Barnet (Gothic Sculpture in Ivory: An Introduction), Elizabeth Sears (Ivory and Ivory-Workers in Medieval Paris), Richard H. Randall, Jr. (Popular Romances Carved in Ivory), Harvey Stahl (Narrative Structure and Content in Some Gothic Ivories of the Life of Christ), Charles T. Little (Opera Francigeno et Germania: Gothic Ivory Carving in Germany), Danielle Gaborit-Chopin (Polychrome Decoration of Gothic Ivories), and Paul Williamson (Symbiosis across Scale: Gothic Ivories and Culture in Stone and Wood in the Thirteenth Century). Nearly one hundred of the most important examples of Gothic ivory carving from collections in Europe and the United States are catalogued by leading specialists. They are illustrated with mostly new photography and collateral photographs where appropriate. The publication conveys to the reader the major changes that occurred in art and society during the Gothic period and the rise of ivory carving for both religious and secular purposes. Organized chronologically, the catalog tells the story of the development of this art form; the people who carved, commissioned, and made use of ivories in the Middle Ages; and the impact historical developments had on the growth and eventual demise of the art form.

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The Dodge Collection: Of Eighteenth-Century French and English Art in the Detroit Institute of Arts

Detroit Institute of Arts; Alan Phipps Darr

Auto heiress Anna Thompson Dodge's unparalleled collection of furniture, sculpture, tapestries, porcelain, paintings and more.

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The Car and the Camera: The Detroit School of Automotive Photography

Detroit Institute of Arts; David Lanier Lewis; Bill Rauhauser; David L. Lewis

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African Form and Imagery: Detroit Collects

Detroit Institute of Arts

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Art of the American Indian Frontier: A Portfolio

Detroit Institute of Arts; David W. Penney

The art contained in this portfolio--all from the renowned Chandler-Pohrt Collection--includes colorful men's and women's clothing, buckskin and porcupine quill bags, woven sashes, jewelry, smoking pipes, and other decorative and ceremonial objects, all made between 1800 and 1920. The design and craftsmanship are witness to the creative spirit that endured even in the face of continual governmental attempts at forced assimilation. Replete with twenty-four beautifully printed, unbound, full-color plates, Art of the American Indian Frontier opens the door to the rich world of North American Woodlands and Plains Indian art.

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African Masterworks in the Detroit Institute of Arts

Detroit Institute of Arts; David W. Penney; Roy Sieber; Michael Kan; Helen M. Shannon; Mary Nooter Roberts

African Masterworks in the Detroit Institute of Arts showcases eighty-eight of the museum's finest works, representing the full range of major sub-Saharan sculptural traditions during the past three centuries: figures, masks, containers, carved stools, jewelry, and musical instruments. As noted in the introductory material, almost all African art has a functional base - each sculpture's primary justification is its effectiveness as a ritual or utilitarian object. Text accompanying each photograph describes not only the circumstances, when known, of the object's creation, but also the harmonious interplay of its aesthetic features and cultural and spiritual function. The catalogue also details the rituals surrounding the religious objects and the social importance of the secular works. Organized by region, from the western Sudan to southern Africa, the book includes essays on the history of each area, as well as maps and an extensive bibliography. Michael Kan, the curator of the collection, provides a history of the museum's African art acquisitions since 1900, and the introduction by Roy Sieber traces the evolution of Western appreciation for African art, describing also the value placed on the objects by the community from which they arose.

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Decorative Arts 1900: Highlights from Private Collections in Detroit

Detroit Institute of Arts; Peter Barnet; Mary Ann Wilkinson

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A Private View: American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection

Detroit Institute of Arts; Yale University; High Museum of Art

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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors

Detroit Institute of Arts

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Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection

Detroit Institute of Arts; David W. Penney; National Gallery of Art (U.S.); Buffalo Bill Historical Center

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American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: Works by Artists Born Before 1816

Detroit Institute of Arts; Mary Black; Nancy Rivard Shaw; Founders Society

Showcases great collection of American painting; Library Journal Starred review.

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Collaboration in Print: Stewart & Stewart Prints, 1980-1990

Detroit Institute of Arts; Stewart & Stewart

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