Vastly more than brick & mortar : reinventing the Fogg Art Museum in the 1920s / Kathryn Brush.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fogg Art Museum.

Contributor:

Brush, Kathryn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fogg Art Museum--History.

Fogg Art Museum.

History.

Physical Description:

231 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Other Title:

Vastly more than brick and mortar

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Art Museums ; New Haven : Yale University Press, [2003]

Summary:

- This book accompanies an exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, from May 29 to August 22, 2004.- Distributed for the Harvard University Art Museums

Contents:

The old and the new Fogg: conception, direction, and patronage before and after World War I

A comprehensive "art laboratory" for teaching and research: fund-raising and planning, 1922-25

Constructing, inaugurating, and using the new Fogg, 1925-28

A contemporary counterpart in Germany: the Kunstinstitut at the University of Marburg

The new Fogg as model? National and international responses.

Notes:

" ... published in honor of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the opening of the second, and current, Fogg Art Museum building. The related exhibition celebrating that anniversary is organized by and on view at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 29-August 22, 2004"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1891771337

0300101767

OCLC:

52373480