Author : Hilla Rebay
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,43 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892073276
This exhibition brings to light Rebay's multifaceted career as artist, curator and collector and honours her achievements as the first director of the Guggenheim Museum.
Author : Tracey R. Bashkoff
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 27,64 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN :
Considering in depth the origins of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum when it was first known as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, this volume reveals for the first time the museums complex and sometimes twisted architectural history and the ambitious exhibition programme organized by Hilla Rebay, the museums founding Director and Curator from 1939 to 1952. Through the extensive correspondence between Rebay and Rudolf Bauer the artist whose work Guggenheim collected exhaustively Karol Vail reveals the important role Bauer played in envisioning the collection and the museum. Fully illustrated throughout, and featuring extensive previously unpublished archival materials, this book provides essential reading and a rich reference of the Guggenheims multifaceted and fascinating history.
Author : Hilla Rebay
Publisher :
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 20,8 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Women artists
ISBN :
Artist, patron, and founding director and curator of the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, Hilla Rebay was hailed by her contemporaries as artistic guide of the era. This 1948 catalogue accompanied an exhibition displaying 38 years of her work in watercolor and collage. Complete with an introduction by Elise Ruffini, select reproductions in black and white, an exhibition checklist, and quotes from critics and Rebay herself, the catalogue offers a unique insight into Rebay's oeuvre and contemporary reception.
Author : Lauren Gunderson
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822233789
THE STORY: Love. Art. Defiance. The visceral and visual true story of forgotten modern artist Rudolf Bauer, struggling with his fading place in the history of art as his paintings are removed from the walls of the Guggenheim Museum.
Author : Wassily Kandinsky
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 20,43 MB
Release : 2012-04-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 048613248X
Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. 12 illustrations.
Author : Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Publisher : Guggenheim Museum
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 19,64 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892075263
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim, organized by Megan Fontanella, Curator, Collections and Provenance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, February 10-September 6, 2017."
Author : Francesco Dal Co
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,12 MB
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300226055
The captivating tale of the plans and personalities behind one of New York City's most radical and recognizable buildings Considered the crowning achievement of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan is often called iconic. But it is in fact iconoclastic, standing in stark contrast to the surrounding metropolis and setting a new standard for the postwar art museum. Commissioned to design the building in 1943 by the museum's founding curator, Baroness Hilla von Rebay, Wright established residence in the Plaza Hotel in order to oversee the project. Over the next 17 years, Wright continuously clashed with his clients over the cost and the design, a conflict that extended to the city of New York and its cultural establishment. Against all odds, Wright held fast to his radical design concept of an inverted ziggurat and spiraling ramp, built with a continuous beam--a shape recalling the form of an hourglass. Construction was only completed in 1959, six months after Wright's death. The building's initial critical response ultimately gave way to near-universal admiration, as it came to be seen as an architectural masterpiece. This essential text, offering a behind-the-scenes story of the Guggenheim along with a careful reading of its architecture, is beautifully illustrated with more than 150 images, including plans, drawings, and rare photographs of the building under construction.
Author : Hilma af Klint
Publisher : Guggenheim Museum
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 2018-10-04
Category :
ISBN : 9780892075430
A groundbreaking study of visionary artist Hilma af Klint. When Swedish artist Hilma af Klint died in 1944 at the age of 81, she left behind more than a thousand paintings and works on paper that she kept largely private during her lifetime. Believing the world was not yet ready for her art, she stipulated that it should remain unseen for another 20 years. But only in recent decades has the public had a chance to reckon with af Klint's radically abstract painting practice - one which predates the work of Vasily Kandinsky and other artists widely considered trailblazers of modernist abstraction. Accompanying the first major survey exhibition of the artist's work in the United States, Hilma af Klint represents her groundbreaking painting series while expanding recent scholarship to present the fullest picture yet of the artist's life and work. Essays explore the social, intellectual, and artistic milieu of af Klint's 1906 break with figuration and her subsequent development, placing her in the context of Swedish modernism and folk art traditions, contemporary scientific discoveries, and spiritualist and occult movements. A roundtable discussion among contemporary artists, scholars, and curators considers af Klint's sources and relevance to art in the 21st century. The volume also delves into her unrealized plans for a spiral-shaped temple in which to display her art - a wish that finds a fortuitous answer in the Guggenheim Museum's rotunda, the site of the forthcoming exhibition.
Author : Kristian Moen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 3030279316
This book reveals and explores the thriving animation culture in midtown Manhattan, the World’s Fair, art galleries and cinemas during a vibrant period of artistic, commercial and industrial activity in New York City. Alongside a detailed investigation of animated film at the time – ranging from the abstract works of Mary Ellen Bute and Norman McLaren to the exhibition practices of the Disney Studios and the New York World’s Fair – New York’s Animation Culture examines a host of other animated forms, including moving dioramas, illuminated billboards, industrial displays, gallery exhibitions, mobile murals, and shop windows. In this innovative microhistory of animation, Moen combines the study of art, culture, design and film to offer a fine-grained account of an especially lively animation culture that was seen as creating new media, expanding the cinema experience, giving expression to utopian dreams of modernity, and presenting dynamic visions of a kinetic future.
Author : Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Publisher : Guggenheim Museum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,96 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Abstract expressionism
ISBN : 9780892074693
The pioneering artists of the post-World War II era embraced artistic freedom and gesture-based styles, nontraditional materials and countercultural references. French art critic Michel Tapié even declared the existence of "un art autre" (art of another kind)--an art that entailed a radical break with all traditional notions of order and composition, in a movement toward something wholly "other." This catalogue accompanies the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum exhibition Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949-1960, which especially highlights works that entered into the collection during the tenure of then-director James Johnson Sweeney. Featuring nearly 100 works by Carla Accardi, Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Martin Barré, Harry Bertoia, Louise Bourgeois, Alberto Burri, Sam Francis, Grace Hartigan, Asger Jorn, Yves Klein, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Conrad Marca-Relli, Kenzo Okada, Jorge Oteiza, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, Pierre Soulages, Clyfford Still, Antoni Tàpies, Jean Tinguely, Cy Twombly, Takeo Yamaguchi and Zao Wou-Ki, among others, this collection-based exhibition and publication explore the affinities and differences between artists working continents apart, in a period of great transition and rapid creative development. The fully illustrated exhibition catalogue includes essays by Tracey Bashkoff, Megan M. Fontanella and Joan Marter; an illustrated chronology; and short biographies of the artists.
