Private eye : the imagist impulse in Chicago art / texts by John Corbett, Jim Dempsey, Thea Liberty Nichols, Dennis Adrian.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Corbett, John, 1963- writer of supplementary textual content, interviewer.

Dempsey, Jim (Art gallery owner), writer of supplementary textual content, interviewer.

Nichols, Thea Liberty, writer of supplementary textual content.

Adrian, Dennis, 1937-2018, writer of supplementary textual content.

Indianapolis Museum of Art, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chicago Imagists (Group of artists)--Exhibitions.

Chicago Imagists (Group of artists).

Art, American--Illinois--Chicago--20th century--Exhibitions.

Art, American.

Figurative art, American--Illinois--Chicago--20th century--Exhibitions.

Figurative art, American.

Arts, Modern--20th century--Exhibitions.

Arts, Modern.

Painters--Illinois--Chicago--Exhibitions.

Painters.

Sculpture--Illinois--Chicago.

Sculpture.

Painting, American.

Illinois--Chicago.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

208 pages : color illustrations ; 29 x 24 cm

Other Title:

Imagist impulse in Chicago art

Place of Publication:

Inidanapolis, [Indiana] : Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, 2021.

Summary:

"Brash, brilliant and funny, the Chicago Imagists--from the Hairy Who and Nonplussed Some to False Image and Marriage Chicago Style--receive a full appraisal in this electrifying volume. This amply illustrated catalog surveys the work of the group of artists known as the Chicago Imagists, who exhibited together in the late 1960s, and whose influence continues to spread 50 years later. Drawing from a collection of rarely seen works, the book presents work from the 17 artists who comprise the original Imagist exhibition groups--the Hairy Who, Nonplussed Some, False Image and Marriage Chicago Style--as well as a number of independent Chicago artists. These artists and their historic work, which is brash, brilliant and often humorous, have seen increased attention over the last decade. Scholars, collectors and younger artists have been magnetized by the paintings of Jim Nutt, Christina Ramberg, Roger Brown, Gladys Nilsson and Karl Wirsum, but there are few large-scale, high-quality books documenting their work. In addition to a reprint of an important and little-known piece by Dennis Adrian, the book features original essays that provide a big-picture view of the vibrant Chicago art ecosystem and explore the relationship between Imagism and abstraction and between historical Imagist art and its offspring. Also included are an interview with the collectors, biographical "snapshots" of seven key artists and a timeline plotting major works in the collection against important historical events in the art world. With this comprehensive range of material, Private Eye: The Imagist Impulse in Chicago Art adds substantively to the topic's scholarship." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Director's note / Charles L. Venable

Foreword / Michael J. Robertson and Christopher A. Slapak

Mommy, what's an imagist? A primer on Chicago School painting with tengents, exogenous points of reference, and exceptions that prove the rule / John Corbett

"Hitherto unsuspected affinities" : contemporary artists in the Robertson/Slapak Collection of Chicago Imagism / Thea Liberty Nichols

Plates

Drs. Chicago : an interview with collectors Michael Robertson and Christopher Slapak / conducted by John Corbett and Jim Dempsey

Aspects of form among some Chicago artists / Dennis Adrian

The whos in whoville : seven snapshots of Chicago Imagists / Jim Dempsey

Timeline 1950-1980 / John Corbett and Jim Dempsey

Checklist of the exhibition.

Notes:

Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, May 21-December 5, 2021.

ISBN:

1646570146

9781646570140

OCLC:

1235467737