Alexander Calder from the Collection of the Ruth and Leonard J. Horwich Family [Paperback]

Lynne Warren (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 24 pages
• Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art (November 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0933856350
• ISBN-13: 978-0933856356
• Product Dimensions: 12.2 x 9.2 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,633,025 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Lynne Warren is Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago where she has organized over 25 solo exhibitions of artists ranging from "Robert Heinecken: Photographist" of 1999 and 2004's "Dan Peterman: Plastic Economies." She served as the project director for the "Art in Chicago, 1945-1995" exhibition of 1996, which produced the first comprehensive book of Chicago's unique art history; project director and curator of the H.C. Westermann exhibition and catalogue raisonné projects; and curator for the 2010 exhibition "Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy" and edited the book of the same name. A number of her over 30 exhibition catalogues published by the MCA and such publishers as Harry N. Abrams and Thames and Hudson are collector's items, including "Alternative Spaces: A History in Chicago."

Warren has contributed to "Masterpieces of 20th Century Art," The Art Institute of Chicago (1988); the "Encyclopedia of Chicago," Newberry Library, Chicago and University of Chicago (2004); the Groves Dictionaries "Dictionary of Art" (1995); "Photography After Photography," Siemans AG, Munich, (1999); and is the editor for the three-volume reference book "The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography" published by Taylor and Francis Books, London and New York.

She has also authored essays in exhibition catalogues of Marcos Raya, Vera Klement, Lora Fosberg, Wesley Kimler, Phyllis Bramson, and others.

She published a volume of poetry in 2009 titled "Ballary Marvels" which features the pen-and-ink drawings of Ellen Lanyon, available at Printed Matter in New York, or on-line at the Museum of Contemporary Art bookstore