Mass Moca: From Mill to Museum (First Edition)

Jennifer Trainer (editor); Thompson, Joseph; Bruner, Simeon; Heon, John

ISBN 10: 0970073801 / ISBN 13: 9780970073808

Published by Mass Moca, North Adams, Mass., 2000

About this Item

Contributors: Joseph Thompson, Simeon Bruner, John Heon; Photographer: Nicholas Whitman. North Adams, MA: MASS MoCA Publications, 2000. First edition. First printing, Hardcover. Black cloth (no spine or cover lettering), as issued. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher s original price intact on jacket flap ($35.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean copy. Decorated endpapers. Oblong octavo, 122 pages. A visual and historical chronicle of the conversion of the industrial mill complex into the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Combines essays, architectural insights, and documentary photography to narrate the site's transformation. Guided by the founding director Joseph Thompson s perspective, Thompson s editorial framing, and Whitman s vivid imagery, the book offers readers a multifaceted look at adaptive reuse and cultural regeneration.

Seller Inventory # F100-Mass-Moca-Art

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mass Moca: From Mill to Museum (First Edition)
• Publisher: Mass Moca, North Adams, Mass.
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0970073801
• ISBN 13: 9780970073808
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art

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Synopsis

The result of more than a decade of careful planning, designing, and building, the newly opened Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art pays tribute to nearly a century's worth of industry, labor, and commerce. Located in the college town of North Adams in a series of old mill buildings that once housed a textile factory and later an electrical company, MASS MoCA is a stunning example of intelligent, civic-minded architectural gentrification and visionary planning.The story of how MASS MoCA came to be -- from its conception in 1986 to its opening in the summer of 1999 -- is eloquently told in words and pictures in this beautifully designed volume. More than 100 black and white and color photographs document the painstaking transformation of a 19th-century mill complex, listed on the national Historic Register, into a museum that would house the world's largest collection of contemporary art. Museum Director Joseph Thompson offers a fascinating history of the site and his struggles to get the project off the ground, as well as a curatorial essay that reveals how the AIA Award-winning complex blurs the traditional lines between production and exhibition space to offer unique opportunities for artists and visitors alike. A unique and triumphant story of successful interaction between postindustrial concerns and historic preservation. Mill to Museum is a lesson in how architects, artists, citizens and government can work together to transform not only a building-but the very way we experience art and architecture.

About the Author

Joseph Thompson is MASS MoCA's founding director who has spearheaded the project for twelve years.

Simeon Bruner is founding Principal of Bruner/Cott & Associates.

Nicholas Whitman is the author of A Window Back: Photography in a Whaling Port.