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Building a masterpiece : Milwaukee Art Museum

Title: Building a masterpiece : Milwaukee Art Museum / introduction by Russell Bowman ; with an essay by Franz Schulze.
Author: Milwaukee Art Museum.
Publication: New York : Hudson Hills Press ; Milwaukee, Wis. : Milwaukee Art Museum ; [Lanham, MD] : Distributed in the U.S. by National Book Network, ©2001.

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Schulze, Franz, 1927-2019

Description

233 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm

Summary

"Backed by a distinguished history beginning in 1888, the Milwaukee Art Museum recently inaugurated a spectacular new addition, the $100 million Quadracci Pavilion designed by world-renowned architect Santiago Calatrava. The new building complements and extends the museum's solid foundations - expressed in the original imposing Eero Saarinen War Memorial Center building of 1957 and the David Kahler-designed 1975 addition. In his essay discussing Calatrava's past and present work, internationally recognized architectural historian Franz Schulze examines Milwaukee's launch of this ambitious project and the architect's stunning accomplishment." "Building a Masterpiece has been published to showcase the collections. The museum curators, assisted by outside scholars, have carefully explicated 166 works of art that meaningfully demonstrate what the museum has accomplished over the many years of its commitment and role within Milwaukee and the larger art community. Works of art from antiquity to the present are each represented by a full-color reproduction and a carefully researched, lively text. The wealth of Renaissance decorative arts, the European and American art collections, works on paper, photography, and folk and outsider objects, present a broad spectrum of the history of art. Special attention is given to American decorative arts and the twentieth-century and contemporary collections because of their exceptional strength. Director Russell Bowman's introduction to Building a Masterpiece gives an overview of the institution's history and the character of its collections."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Milwaukee Art Museum

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Genre/Form

Catalog
v – Catalogs.
catalogs (documents)
Catalogs.
Catalogues.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

An introduction to the Milwaukee Art Museum: past and future / Russell Bowman -- Disclosing Santiago Calatrava's Milwaukee masterpiece / Franz Schulze -- Highlights of the collection / Margaret Andera [and others] : Ancient, Asian, and African art ; Early European painting, sculpture, and decorative arts ; Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American painting, sculpture, and decorative arts -- Early twentieth-century European painting, sculpture, and decorative arts ; Early twentieth-century American painting, sculpture, and decorative arts ; Contemporary art ; Prints and drawings ; Photographs ; Folk, self-taught, and Haitian art.

ISBN

1555952011
9781555952013
155595202X
9781555952020

LCCN

2001039177

OCLC

ocm47081393
47081393
SCSB-8978396

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library