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

"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 exhibi...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Indianapolis Museum of Art (Host institution)
Other Authors: 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)
Language:English
Published: Indianapolis, [Indiana] : Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, 2021.
Subjects:
Chicago Imagists (Group of artists) > Exhibitions.
Art, American > Illinois > Chicago > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Figurative art, American > Illinois > Chicago > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Arts, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Painters > Illinois > Chicago > Exhibitions.
Sculpture > Illinois > Chicago.
Painting, American.
Figurative art, American.
Chicago Imagists (Group of artists)
Art, American.
Illinois > Chicago.
1900-1999
Exhibition catalogs.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:208 pages : color illustrations ; 29 x 24 cm
Variant Title:
Imagist impulse in Chicago art
Format: Book
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.