Art Institute of Chicago
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For more than seventy years, The Art Institute of Chicago has stewarded one of the most remarkable assemblages of East Asian art in the United States. Renowned collections of ancient Chinese bronzes and jades, Japanese woodblock prints and early Buddhist paintings, and Chinese and Korean ceramics all contain masterpieces that exemplify the peak of these venerable, sophisticated art forms. Scroll and screen paintings, stone sculpture, and metal-work...
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"The Art Institute's holdings of twentieth-century painting and sculpture is one of the most important in the world. Now, for the first time, this outstanding collection is surveyed in this stunning, full-color volume celebrating a century of innovation and creativity." "Included are over one hundred and forty masterpieces by the most celebrated American and European artists of the period, spanning such diverse movements as Cubism, Surrealism, Abstract...