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Indlæser... Philip Johnson and the Museum of Modern Art (Studies in Modern Art)af John Elderfield
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Late last year I wrapped up writing a book devoted to landscape designs. One of the 100 projects included in the book is MoMA's famous garden, known officially as the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. Although very well known and frequently visited, it seemed like most research yielded fairly superficial histories. So to get a better handle on the details behind its realization I discovered and bought this issue of MoMA's "Studies in Modern Art" series on Philip Johnson's relationship with the museum. It consists of four essays, one of them is devoted to the sculpture garden: Mirka Benes's "A Modern Classic." (The other three essays are about Johnson as a donor to the museum, as a curator, and as the museum's architect.) Benes's nearly 50-page essay is an excellent background on the space, from its days as an outdoor gallery designed by curators John McAndrew and Alfred Barr to Johnson's design and its changes up to the turn of the century. With Yoshio Taniguchi's renovation and expansion of the museum in 2004, the garden and its boundaries would change once again, but the basics of Johnson's design (pools, bridge, asymmetrical plan with plantings) have remained intact for all of its sixty-plus years. Johnson may be known to the wider public for buildings like the AT&T Building (now Sony Tower) not far from MoMA, but the small outdoor space he designed for the museum is one of his best and most lasting designs in any form. ( ) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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This sixth volume in the Studies in Modern Art series focuses on the unusual 60-year relationship between one of America's prominent contemporary architects, Philip Johnson, and a leading cultural institution, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Johnson has served as curator, patron, and the museum's unofficial architect from the late 1940s to the early 1970s, and illustrated here are paintings and sculptures selected from the more than 2,200 works of all kinds he has contributed to the museum, as well as documentary photographs.A discussion of the series of unprecedented exhibitions that Johnson organized in the early 1930s -- including Modern Architecture -- International Exhibition and Machine Art -- is followed by a thorough examination of his various architectural projects for the museum, including The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. The closing essay traces the evolution of the sculpture garden, a New York landmark, within the context of international trends in landscape architecture. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Indlæser... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)709.04The arts Modified subdivisions of the arts History, geographic treatment, biography By Period 20th CenturyLC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit:
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