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With its glittering panels and sweeping curves, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, is one of the most stunning museums in the world. Created specifically to house modern art, the Guggenheim attracts more than one million visitors per year. Discover more about this incredible museum and its collections in The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, a Museums of the World book.
Preface and Acknowledgments / Thomas Krens -- The Genesis of a Museum: A History of the Guggenheim / Thomas Krens -- Frank Lloyd Wright and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum / Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer -- Paintings of Modern Life and Modern Myths: Late-Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Representations of Gender, Class, and Race in the Thannhauser Collection / Andrea Feeser -- 1912 / Lisa Dennison -- Technology and the Spirit: The Invention of Non-Objective Art / Michael Govan -- Peggy's Surreal Playground / Jennifer Blessing -- Art of This Century and the New York School / Diane Waldman -- Against the Grain: A History of Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim / Nancy Spector -- The Institution as Frame: Installations at the Guggenheim / Clare Bell.
This book celebrates the Guggenheim from its inception to the present. In a highly informative essay, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Vice President and Director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, traces an odyssey that began in 1943 with a letter imploring Wright to build a "temple of spirit" for a small museum of non-objective paintings. The project endured delays and upsets for sixteen years before construction was completed in 1959, only months after Wright's death. After a major restoration and expansion project, completed in 1992, the architect's original vision has now truly been fulfilled. This beautiful volume also includes fascinating photographs taken during the museum's construction, a portfolio of photographs interpreting Wright's structure as a work of art, and images of exhibition installations within the newly restored building.
The text is by the museum's curators as well as prominent authors and scholars, including Dore Ashton, Gary Garrels, and Rosalind Krauss."--BOOK JACKET.
Few people today realize that almost everything associated with the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation--its mission, its collection of central European and early American modern art, and its landmark home--are realizations of the efforts of Hilla Rebay. Vrachopoulos (visual culture, CUNY and Parsons School of Design) and Angeline (Parsons School of Design and School of Visual Arts) attempt to remedy this situation with their study of Rebay's career as an artist, curator, patron and museum director. By placing Rebay in the sphere in which she moved and which she influenced, they convey a sense of American Modernism in the period between the wars. They conclude with an examination of Rebay's historical persona as it is portrayed in newspapers, magazines and academic sources. Annotation :2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Originally, Solomon R. Guggenheim donated works from his collection to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which he began in 1937 to support and promote non-objective art. Then, in 1939, he established the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, which was renamed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1952, and its signature Frank Lloyd Wright building opened on New York's Fifth Avenue in 1959. Over time, the Guggenheim has expanded the type of art that it exhibits and collects through the addition of other great collections - notably, those of Karl Nierendorf, Peggy Guggenheim, Justin and Hilde Thannhauser, and Giuseppe Panza di Biumo - as well as through opportunities that resulted from the insti...