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The long curve : 150 years of visionary collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Title
The long curve : 150 years of visionary collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery / organized by Douglas Dreishpoon ; with contributions by Holly E. Hughes, Mariann W. Smith, Susana Tejada.
Author
Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
Publication
Milano : Skira ; Buffalo, N.Y. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 2011, ©2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Dreishpoon, Douglas.
  • Hughes, Holly E. (Holly Elizabeth)
  • Smith, Mariann.
  • Tejada, Susana.
  • Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
Description
265 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits (some color); 29 cm
Summary
"An exquisite volume devoted to a distinguished collection of masterpieces from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Collection. This full-colour catalogue accompanies an international tour that features 70 twentieth-century paintings and sculptures from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Collection, including masterpieces by Salvador Dal , Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo and many others. Rich in illustrations the volume emphasizes the remarkable vitality, salience, and subversiveness of the twentieth-centurys best art. Insightful essays by leading scholars of twentieth-century art are illustrated with archival imagery and superb works from other areas of the Albright-Knox collection.
Alternative Title
  • 150 years of visionary collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
  • One hundred fifty years of visionary collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Subject
  • Albright-Knox Art Gallery > Catalogs
  • Albright-Knox Art Gallery > History > Exhibitions
  • Albright-Knox Art Gallery
  • Albright-Knox Art Gallery > History
  • Albright-Knox Art Gallery
  • Art museums > Exhibitions > New York (State) > Buffalo
  • Art, Modern > Exhibitions
  • Art, Modern
  • Art museums > Exhibitions
  • New York (State) > Buffalo
Genre/Form
  • catalogs (documents)
  • Catalogs
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • History
  • Catalogs.
  • Catalogues.
Note
  • Catalogue of the exhibition by the same name, held at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Nov 4, 2011-Mar 4, 2012.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographic references (p. 254-255) and index.
Contents
Foreword / Louis Grachos -- Preface / Douglas Dreishpoon -- Collecting history / Douglas Dreishpoon -- The impermanent collection: The Room of Contemporary Art, 1939-1971 / Susana Tejada -- Plates with notes on the works / Mariann W. Smith -- Visionary collecting: 150 years in the making / Holly E. Hughes -- Works in the exhibition -- Selected Bibliography / Susana Tejada and Gabriela Zoller.
ISBN
  • 9781887457118
  • 1887457119
  • 9788857210407
  • 8857210405
LCCN
2011910425
OCLC
  • ocn760918578
  • 760918578
  • SCSB-1591583
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library