Brancusi, Hardcover
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Scholars from the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Guggenheim Museums
offer a revealing portrait of the collections that have dramatically
shaped 20th-century art. 720 pages. 475 illustrations, 400 in full
color. 10" w x 12" h.
Your choice of cover: Brancusi's The Muse or Picasso's Woman with Yellow
Hair, from the museum's permanent collection.
Authors
Bernard Blistène and Lisa Dennison, Yve-Alain Bois, Stanley Cavell, Jean-Louis Cohen, and Mark C. Taylor
Description
This volume, published on the occasion of a major exhibition organized by the Centre George Pompidou (through its Musée national d’art moderne) and the Guggenheim Museum, surveys the history of Modern art, from the turn of the century to approximately 1970. This unique and unprecedented partnership brings together more than 300 paintings, sculptures, and drawings by over 150 artists, including Joseph Beuys, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Yves Klein, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Jackson Pollock.
The Musée national d’art moderne and the Guggenheim represent two distinct kinds of museums: a public, government-run institution and a private museum. The former is one institution within a multidisciplinary cultural center, and the latter has grown from a private collection of non-objective painting into a network of international museums of Modern and contemporary art. One originally celebrated almost exclusively the Modern art produced in France, the other various abstract painters from the European avant-garde. Thus, Rendezvous allows a dialogue between two museums renowned for their contributions to the history of Modernism.
Through essays by leading scholars and large full-color reproductions, the catalogue provides a comparison of American and European approaches to collecting, and explores the relationship between the two dominant art capitals of the 20th century, Paris and New York. The natural affinities and distinctions between the two museums regarding their philosophies, their holdings, their unique landmark buildings, and their exhibition programming are also addressed. This book also includes entries on each of the 345 masterpieces reproduced, and succinct biographies of each artist represented.
Contents
18--Monuments for a Mass Cult, Jean-Louis Cohen
40--Better Late than Never, Yve-Alain Bois
48--From Simplicity to Complexity: Changing Museum Architectures, Mark C. Taylor
64--The World as Things: Collecting Thoughts on Collecting, Stanley Cavell
90--Pompidou/Guggenheim: A Dialogue for an Exhibition, Bernard Blistène and
Lisa Dennison
106--Catalogue, with texts by Craig Houser
560--Artist Biographies and Catalogue Entries, edited by Susan Hapgood
706--Index of Catalogue Reproductions
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