The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Art, Modern--20th century.

Art, Modern.

Art--New York (State)--New York.

Art.

New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

89 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Guggenheim Museum Publications : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Abrams, 1995.

Summary:

This book celebrates the Guggenheim from its inception to the present. In a highly informative essay, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Vice President and Director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, traces an odyssey that began in 1943 with a letter imploring Wright to build a "temple of spirit" for a small museum of non-objective paintings. The project endured delays and upsets for sixteen years before construction was completed in 1959, only months after Wright's death. After a major restoration and expansion project, completed in 1992, the architect's original vision has now truly been fulfilled. This beautiful volume also includes fascinating photographs taken during the museum's construction, a portfolio of photographs interpreting Wright's structure as a work of art, and images of exhibition installations within the newly restored building.

Contents:

Preface / Thomas Krens

A temple of spirit / Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer

The construction / photographs by William H. Short

The restoration and expansion / photographs by Lee B. Ewing and David Heald

The Museum as a work of art / photographs by David Heald

The Museum as a place for art / photographs by Lee B. Ewing and David Heald.

ISBN:

0810968894

1854371983

0892071265

OCLC:

35797856