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Pontus Hultén worked at Moderna Museet in Stockholm between 1958 and 1973. In 1960 he was appointed director. It was in this role that he built the collection and the Museum?s international reputation, with exhibitions such as Movement in Art (1961), American Pop Art. 106 Forms of Love and Despair (1964), She - A Cathedral (1966), and Andy Warhol (1968). In 2005 Pontus Hultén donated his private art collection, his library, and his archives to Moderna Museet. The Formative Years, is to focus on his practice as an exhibition curator and museum director and to explore the legacy of the legendary 1960s and its implications for the Museum today. In addition to the five articles the book contains archival photographs and documents as well as a previously unpublished text from 1962 by Pontus Hultén himself, outlining his ideas on how a modern art museum should be run.
Pontus Hultén was one of the major museum directors, nationally and internationally, in his time. He built up important art institutions, primarily Moderna Museet Stockholm, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and Palazzo Grassi, Venice. Hultén put on a series of pioneering exhibitions, introducing art of importance that was not always already established at Moderna Museet in the 1960s. The artists were among others Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely. As artistic director at Centre Georges Pompidou he curated major exhibitions in the 1980s, among them a series of exhibitions on early modernism in Paris in relation to the modernism of Moscow, New York and Berlin at the time.
"In 2005 Pontus Hultén donated his private art collection, his library, and his archives to Moderna Museet. The purpose of Moderna Museet's current research is to focus on his practice as an exhibition curator and museum director and to explore the legacy of the legendary 1960s and its implications for the Museum today. This book analyses and reconsiders some of the myths about the first decade that still informs the picture of Moderna Museet in many ways." -- Website des Verlags der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König
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Pontus Hult�n worked at Moderna Museet in Stockholm between 1958 and 1973. In 1960 he was appointed director. It was in this role that he built the collection and the Museum's international reputation, with exhibitions such as Movement in Art (1961), American Pop Art. 106 Forms of Love and Despair (1964), She - A Cathedral (1966), and Andy Warhol (1968).In 2005 Pontus Hult�n donated his private art collection, his library, and his archives to Moderna Museet. The Formative Years, is to focus on his practice as an exhibition curator and museum director and to explore the legacy of the legendary 1960s and its implications for the Museum today.In addition to the five articles the book contains archival photographs and documents as well as a previously unpublished text from 1962 by Pontus Hult�n himself, outlining his ideas on how a modern art museum should be run.