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Art of this century : the Guggenheim Museum and its collection.

By: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Contributor(s): Krens, Thomas [contributor , writer of preface ] | Waldman, Diane [contributor ] | Spector, Nancy [contributor ] | Govan, Michael [contributor ] | Blessing, Jennifer [contributor ].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Guggenheim Museum Publications, [1993]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 339 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 34 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0892070722 (hardback); 0892070730 (paperback).Subject(s): Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979 | Guggenheim, Solomon R. (Solomon Robert), 1861-1949 | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum -- History | Art, Modern -- 20th century | Art -- Collectors and collectingDDC classification: 708.13
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Publishers Weekly Review

This impressive portrait of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens with a lackluster essay by museum director Krens, who surveys past acquisitions and outlines plans for the Guggenheim's future as a constellation of branches (such as the outpost in Manhattan's Soho district and the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice). Krens's piece reads like the soft sell of an annual report, as though his intended audiences are trustees and potential donors. The rest of the book is more analytically rigorous, however, its essays and reproductions examining the strengths of the museum's extensive holdings of late-19th- and 20th-century art. There is a detailed account of the construction of the Manhattan Guggenheim, which opened in 1959, from the commissioning of the aged but ever-grandiose and obstinate Frank Lloyd Wright to subsequent modifications to better display artworks within the corkscrew design of the structure. The work of living artists is also included here, among them Jenny Holtzer, whose rings of LED display boards flashing digital messages are perhaps the most spectacular art to have taken Wright's spiral edifice as its specific site. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

School Library Journal Review

Named for Peggy Guggenheim's New York gallery, which originally opened in 1942, this spectacular publication celebrates the Guggenheim Foundation, the museum, and its world-renowned collections. The text chronicles the museum's history from 1936 to the present, highlighting the vision of Solomon Guggenheim and his niece, Peggy. Also covered are the artistic leadership and guidance of each museum director since its founding and the museum's expansion and satellite collections in Venice (existing), Salzburg (in the planning stage), and Bilbao, Spain (scheduled to open in 1997). Chapters range from Frank Lloyd Wright's designs for the notable museum to the exceptional Thannhauser Collection of late 19th- and early 20th-century works, which includes Manet, Degas, Gauguin, and Picasso, as well as the surrealist collection of Peggy Guggenheim. Art of This Century is overflowing with reproductions of the most notable artists of the 20th century and supplemented by beautiful photographs of this modern architectural wonder. Essential for any collection.-Stephen Allan Patrick, East (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.