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A modern patronage : de Menil gifts to American and European museums
- Title
- A modern patronage : de Menil gifts to American and European museums / Marcia Brennan, Alfred Pacquement, Ann Temkin ; with an introduction by Josef Helfenstein.
- Author
- Brennan, Marcia.
- Publication
- Houston, Tex. : Menil Foundation ; New Haven, Conn. : Distributed by Yale University Press, [2007], ©2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | N576.H68 B74 2007 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 120 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm
- Summary
- "This illustrated book showcases some of the fifty works that the de Menils acquired over the decades, including pieces by such major twentieth-century artists as Lee Bontecou, Christo, Max Ernst, Rene Magritte, Jackson Pollock, Jean Tinguely, and Andy Warhol, as well as an important group of African, Oceanic, and pre-Columbian works."--BOOK JACKET.
- Alternative Title
- De Menil gifts to American and European museums
- Subjects
- Note
- Catalog of the exhibition held at the de Menil Collection, Houston, June 8-Sept. 16, 2007.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Seeing the unseen : James Johnson Sweeney and the de Menils / Marcia Brennan -- Sharing a vision : the de Menils and the modern / Ann Temkin -- Dynamism is contagious : Dominique de Menil and the birth of the Centre Pompidou / Alfred Pacquement -- List of plates.
- ISBN
- 9780300123791 (hbk.)
- 0300123795 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 2006936664
- OCLC
- ocm80331811
- 80331811
- SCSB-9253150
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries