Cloth, 324 pages, colour illustrations; 29 cm. First published 1987. Newly Updated Edition 1997. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** Art collections of Dominique and John de Menil. The Menils are best known for their very urbane collection of Surrealism (Magritte on cover) as well as their patronage of Earthworks and Post-Minimalism, but this book shows that their appetite for art is very broad indeed. Texas oil money buys a whole bunch of art. *** "The Menil Collection: A selection from the Paleolithic to the Modern Era presents works of art from the extraordinary private collection of Dominique and John de Menil, which was assembled over the last forty years. This book, and the new museum built to house the collection in Houston, Texas, for the first time make available to the public the content of The Menil Collection. The nearly 250 works shown here in color reproductions are, of couse, only a fraction of the collection's 10,000 items that include painting, drawings, prints and photographs, rare books, sculpture, and precious objects." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: 22 critical essays . . . art of ancient cultures; Medieval and Byzantine art; European painting, sixteenth-eighteeneth century; Image of the Black in Western art; Colonial art in the New World; Art of the tribal cultures; Twentieth Century art. Size: 4to.

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Title

The Menil Collection: A Selection from the Paleolithic to the Modern Era

Publisher

Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York

Publication Date

1997

Language

English

ISBN 10

0810914409

ISBN 13

9780810914407

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

2nd.

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

Book Type

Collectible

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Shows selections from the art and sculpture of the new museum in Houston, including works by Warhol, Johns, Rauschenberg, Calder, Rothko, Dubuffet, Picasso, and Ernst

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