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Frederick Kiesler : lost in history : Art of This Century and the modern art gallery / by Shirley Haines-Cooke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haines-Cooke, Shirley.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Modern--20th century.
- Art, Modern.
- Art museums--History--20th century.
- Art museums.
- Art of This Century (Gallery).
- Kiesler, Frederick--Criticism and interpretation.
- Kiesler, Frederick.
- Genre:
- Libros electrónicos.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (215 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.
- Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The material for this book has been taken from the 2006 thesis, Frederick Kiesler's Art of This Century in New York, (1942-1947), in the Context of the Twentieth Century Art Museum. The prime objective was to establish why so few people remember Art of This Century, which Kiesler designed for Peggy Guggenheim in 1942, and she ruthlessly closed in 1947. A second aim was to investigate why there has been so research carried out on the Gallery, when it was acknowledged as a work of art in it...
- Contents:
- pt. I. The politics in museum design
- pt. II. Kiesler a multidisciplinary oeuvre
- pt. III. Art of This Century, 1942-1947
- pt. IV. Kiesler : in the context of late twentieth and twenty-first century art museum design.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Descripción basada en metadatos suministrados por el editor y otras fuentes.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-219).
- ISBN:
- 1-282-19200-0
- 9786612192005
- 1-4438-0837-7
- OCLC:
- 1183835048
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