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This volume celebrates one of America's great museums.
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From the Houston Public School Art League of 1900 through the 1924 public opening as the first art museum founded in Texas, to the present Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the collection of over 20,000 objects represented here exemplifies the taste of its eight decades of patrons. Showy instead of scholarly, self-important instead of substantial, this is a glossy example of the "outstanding hits" format rather than a serious collection catalog. All departments, from Tribal Arts to Photography, Ancient to 20th Century Art, are represented by excellent illustrations and pedestrian commentaries. The dynamic institution delineated here may well be "one of America's great museums," but if so, it is not well served by this oversized bit of public relations.
-Paula Frosch, Metropolitan Museum of Art Lib., New York
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Cloth. Condition: Fine Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Condition. First Edition. 366 pages of lavishly photographed and reproduced images of the masterworks of art in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Insightful essays on works in all media, including paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, drawings, prints, and photographs. Stunningly beautiful works from the Antiquities, Asia, and Pre-Columbian times. Bound in aqua blue cloth with silver stamping on the spine. Both binding and dustjacket are in fine condition. Book. Seller Inventory # 002622
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A Permanent Legacy. 150 Works from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Introd. by Peter C. Marzio.
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Condition: Gut. 366 Seiten; zahlr. farbige, zumeist großformatige Illustrationen; 31 cm; fadengeh. Orig.-Leinenband m. farb. illustr. Orig.-Umschlag. Gutes Exemplar; der Umschlag etwas berieben u.m. kl. Aufkleber. - Englisch. - The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is one of America's great museums, with an encyclopedic collection of more than 20,000 works of art in which all cultures and all periods are represented by numerous masterpieces. The collection has exceptional strength and depth in such areas as Renaissance art, English and early American decorative arts (the latter at a noted adjunct facility, Bayou Bend, formerly Ima Hogg's private estate), late nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and American art, and fine-art photography. This magnificent volume, the very first to cover the full range of the museum's riches, presents 150 masterworks in full-page colorplates, each facing an individual essay about the artist, the work, and its cultural and historical contexts. The volume is organized by departments of the museum: Art of the Americas and Tribal Arts, Near and Far Eastern Art, Ancient and Early European Art, Later European Art, Prints and Drawings, Decorative Arts, American Art, Photography, and Twentieth-Century Art. In all, six continents and four millennia are represented, including treasures by many of the most acclaimed artists in history: old masters Giovanni di Paolo, Fra Angelico, van der Weyden, Memling, Claude, Dürer, Fragonard, and Canaletto; nineteenth-century Europeans Chardin, Delacroix, Corot, Renoir, Cassatt, Cezanne, van Gogh, Gauguin, Gericault, Redon, and Degas; Americans Copley, Peale, Stuart, Hicks, Kensett, Church, Whistler, Homer, and Sargent; photographers Steichen, Weston, Kertesz, and Stieglitz; and twentieth-century masters Modigliani, Picasso, Klee, Brancusi, Braque, Matisse, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Leger, O'Keeffe, Pollock, Giacometti, Rothko, Diebenkorn, Baselitz, and Johns. An introduction by museum director Peter C. Marzio details the history of the institution, its building (including portions designed by Mies van de Rohe as part of his master plan), its collections, and its leading patrons. (Verlagstext) ISBN 1555950221 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 2000. Seller Inventory # 1212057
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