Reconstructing the Garrick: Adler & Sullivan’s Lost Masterpiece, published by Alphawood Foundation in 2021, has been shortlisted for the 2022 Alice Award. Edited by John Vinci with Tim Samuelson, Eric Nordstrom, and Chris Ware, and designed by Chris Ware, Reconstructing the Garrick documents the enormous salvaging job undertaken to preserve elements of the Garrick Theater, Adler & Sullivan’s magnificent architectural masterpiece in Chicago’s theater district. It also presents the full life story of the Garrick, featuring history and architectural photographs, essays by prominent architectural and art historians, interviews, drawings, ephemera from throughout its lively history, and details of its remarkable ornamentation – a significant resource and compelling tribute to one of Chicago’s finest lost buildings. (The building was replaced by a parking garage, and its demolition ignited the historic preservation movement in Chicago.)
The Alice Award, created in 2013, is administered by Furthermore grants in publishing, and is given to a book that represents excellence in all aspects of the work—from idea to design to quality of production.
The other shortlisted publications are:
Pòtoprens: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince (Pioneer Works Press);
Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900 (Cleveland Museum of Art);
Ray Johnson c/o (Art Institute of Chicago in 2021); and
Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction (Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Kunstmuseum Basel).
The Award will be announced on Thursday, September 15 on the Furthermore website (www.furthermore.org). The Alice Award is being presented in a program at the Strand Book Store, Monday, October 24 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. The presentation of the awards will be streamed through the Strand Bookstore.
To Purchase a copy of this book, please visit https://tickets.wrightwood659.org/publications/reconstructingthegarrick