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Commemorative booklet for an exhibition of paintings by German artist Jorg Immendorff at the Arts Club of Chicago, September 22-December 17, 2004. Includes images of the works exhibited. Some paintings include German-language text. Introduction by Arts Club director Kathy Cottong; commentary by University of Illinois art history professor Jonathan Fineberg.

Catalog of photographs by Chicago artist Douglas Fogelson, focusing on the elements of his art that are about the intersection and layering of time and individuals. Includes curriculum vitae.

Catalog of an exhibition in 2007 of works at the Hyde Park Art Center focusing on destruction and/or deconstruction of books, pages or texts.

Record of all works presented at "Takeover," an exhibit at the Hyde Park Art Center from April 24-June 11, 2006. The concept of the exhibit was that artists were "asked to assume control of the building as a medium for an artwork or series of artworks. Artists were invited to correspond, utilize, or deconstruct the art center" (from curator's introduction). Includes wide variety of contemporary art created in various media.

Catalog from a 2004 exhibition on the works of Richard Pousette-Dart at the Valerie Carberry Gallery. Includes exhibition checklist and list of one-person exhibitions.

A comprehensive documentation of all works given to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Society for Contemporary Art, one of the Institute's subsidiary divisions, on the sixtieth anniversary of the same. List of artist contributors is partial.

Plates of paintings by Franz Kline from an exhibition at Richard Gray Gallery in 2003. Includes an essay by Susan Davidson, curator at the Guggenheim Museum, and a biographical chronology of Kline.

A portfolio of the works of artist Melville Price, with a biographical essay by his wife, Barbara G. Price.

Surrealistic comic about the life of a soap saleswoman who divides into two physical selves, the observer and the observed.

Guide to an exhibition of work by Chicago-born artist Claire Prussian, held at the Illinois Art Gallery (James R. Thompson Center) in Chicago from January 20-March 17, 1995. Includes paintings, drawings, block prints, mixed-media, and lithograph. Commentary on the erotic aspect of Prussian's art is provided by art critic and professor Joanna Frueh. Exhibition items were photographed by Michael Tropea and the book layout was by JNL Graphic Design, Chicago.