Patrons and architects : designing art museums in the twentieth century

Author

Coolidge, John

Document type

Livre

Language

English

Collection

The Anne Burnett Tandy lectures in American civilization ; Num. 2.

Source

Patrons and architects : designing art museums in the twentieth century. 1989, xii, 143 p., 109 ill.; plans; bibliogr. ref.; index

ISBN

0883600587

Publisher

Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Discusses 12 art museums, including the Isabella Gardner Museum, Boston; Louisiana Museum, Humlebæck, Denmark; the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; the Guggenheim, New York City; the Huntington Galleries, Huntington, West Virginia; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; National Gallery, Washington; Beaubourg, Paris; the Sackler Museum at Harvard, Cambridge, MA. Architects discussed include Philip Johnson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1945-present -- Architecture
• Museums
• United States
• 1900-2000
• Denmark
• Germany
• France
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum||Boston (MA, USA)
• Lousiana Museum of Modern Art||Humlebaek (DNK)
• Museum of Modern Art||New York (NY, USA)
• Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou||Paris (FRA)
• Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
• Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret), 1887-1965
• Gropius, Walter Adolf, 1883-1969
• Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969
• Patronage
• Architects
• Architecture
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum||New York (NY, USA)
• Yale University, Yale Center for British Art||New Haven (CT, USA)
• Huntington Galleries||Huntington (WV, USA)
• National Gallery of Art||Washington, DC (USA)
• Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum||Cambridge (MA, USA)

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1945-présent -- Architecture
• Musée
• Etats-Unis
• 1900-2000
• Danemark
• Allemagne
• France
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum||Boston (MA, USA)
• Lousiana Museum of Modern Art||Humlebaek (DNK)
• Museum of Modern Art||New York (NY, USA)
• Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou||Paris (FRA)
• Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
• Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret), 1887-1965
• Gropius, Walter Adolf, 1883-1969
• Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969
• Mécénat
• Architectes
• Architecture
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum||New York (NY, USA)
• Yale University, Yale Center for British Art||New Haven (CT, USA)
• Huntington Galleries||Huntington (WV, USA)
• National Gallery of Art||Washington, DC (USA)
• Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum||Cambridge (MA, USA)

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19910101-00448528

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