Research Catalog

Title

M+ Collections : highlights / edited by Doryun Chong, Lesley Ma, Pauline J. Yao, and Ikko Yokoyama.

Publication

• London ; New York : Thames & Hudson, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chong, Doryun
• Ma, Lesley
• Yao, Pauline J.
• Yokoyama, Ikko

Description

503 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm

Summary

At the heart of Hong Kong's new museum of visual culture are the M+ Collections - the result of a carefully considered programme of collection-building that began with the inception of M+ in 2011. The first of their kind in Asia, the collections comprise four different holdings: the M+ Collection, made up of 6,000-plus works and objects from the worlds of visual art, moving image, and design and architecture, the museum's core areas of interest; the M+ Sigg Collection, consisting of 1,510 works of contemporary Chinese art; the M+ Collection Archives, composed of over 45,000 items; and the M+ Library Special Collection, with 400-plus items. Together, the holdings serve to embody the bold and ambitious mission with which M+ was founded: to become a multidisciplinary museum of contemporary visual culture, rooted in Hong Kong and Asia but with an international outlook. M+ Collections: Highlights presents the work of more than 300 artists, designers, film-makers, photographers and architects specially selected to represent the collections as a whole, from Zhang Peili and Charlotte Perriand to Nam June Paik, Zaha Hadid, and Shigeru Ban. Organized into seven chapters, each encompassing a different decade of the collections' span - from the 1950s to the 2010s - the book consists of individual entries on the featured makers composed of one or more of their works and an insightful analysis by an M+ curator. Interspersed among these entries are 24 thematic essays intended to illuminate some of the movements, tendencies and ideas around which the collections have grown, including modernism in Asian art and the future of painting in a digital world. Full of unexpected connections and new perspectives, M+ Collections: Highlights represents not only an invaluable introduction to M+'s unrivalled storehouse of visual culture but also an indispensable work of reference.

Alternative Title

M Plus Collections

Subject

• M+ (Museum : Hong Kong, China) > Catalogs
• 2000-2099
• Art museums > China > Hong Kong > Catalogs
• Art, Modern > 21st century > Catalogs
• Art, Modern
• Art museums
• China > Hong Kong

Genre/Form

Catalogs.

Note

• Includes index.
• "With over 700 illustrations."

Call Number

JQF 22-941

ISBN

• 9780500024362
• 0500024367

OCLC

1295109433

Title

M+ Collections : highlights / edited by Doryun Chong, Lesley Ma, Pauline J. Yao, and Ikko Yokoyama.

Publisher

London ; New York : Thames & Hudson, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Chong, Doryun editor.

Ma, Lesley, editor.

Yao, Pauline J., editor.

Yokoyama, Ikko, editor.

Research Call Number

JQF 22-941