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Designed by Miko McGinty and Rita Jules, and featuring Retina by Frere-Jones Type, Prospect 4. The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp by Trevor Schoonmaker was published by DelMonco Books/Prestel in 2017. The cover typeface is LTC Kennerley.

Accompanying the…

FOR MUCH OF the twentieth century, regional juried exhibitions hosted by encyclopedic museums throughout the United States constituted the dominant civic model for recognizing local artmaking. From 1897 to 1985 the Art Institute of Chicago punctuated its annual exhibition calendar with the series “Chicago and Vicinity.” Other examples abound: When I began my work as […]