Chicago Makes Modern
How Creative Minds Changed Society
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Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Walter E. Massey
Acknowledgments
Mary Jane Jacob and Justine Jentes
Walter E. Massey
Acknowledgments
Mary Jane Jacob and Justine Jentes
Introduction
Mary Jane Jacob and Jacquelynn Baas
Mary Jane Jacob and Jacquelynn Baas
Modern Minds
Like Minded: Jane Addams, John Dewey, and László Moholy-Nagy
Mary Jane Jacob
Better Than Before: László Moholy-Nagy and the New Bauhaus in Chicago
Maggie Taft
Moholy’s Upward Fall
Ronald Jones
Designers in Film: Goldsholl Associates, the Avant-Garde, and MidcenturyAdvertising Films
Amy Beste
Modern Mind and Typographic Modernity in György Kepes’s Language of Vision
Michael J. Golec
From Chicago to Berlin and Back Again
Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Buckminster Fuller in Chicago: A Modern Individual Experiment
Tricia Van Eck
Keck and Keck: The Chicago Modern Continuum
Andreas Vogler and Arturo Vittori
Mies Is in Pieces
Ben Nicholson
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle’s Reckonings with Mies
Elizabeth A. T. Smith
Artists’ Mind
My Modern: Experiencing Exhibitions
Kate Zeller
Incomplete Final Checklist (Unconfirmed)
Marcos Corrales
Lightplaying
Helen Maria Nugent and Jan Tichy
Mies as Transparent Viewing Cabinet for Pancho’s Crazy Façade
Ângela Ferreira
Bioline: Activating the Mundane
Walter Hood
Minding
J. Morgan Puett
End Notes
Narelle Jubelin and Carla Duarte
Modernity Retired
Staffan Schmidt
Design with Conviction
Charles Harrison interviewed by Zoë Ryan
Life as Art
Anna Halprin interviewed by Jacquelynn Baas
City of Art
Michelangelo Pistoletto interviewed by Mary Jane Jacob
An Outbreak of Peace
Jitish Kallat interviewed by Madhuvanti Ghose
Raising the Roof
Ai Weiwei interviewed by Jacquelynn Baas
Integrating Art and Life
artway of thinking interviewed by Mary Jane Jacob
Contributors
Index
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