Art and activism
Subtitle: projects of John and Dominique de Menil
By: edited by Josef Helfenstein and Laureen Schipsi ; [essays by] Suzanne Deal Booth ... [et al.].
Contributors: Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.)
Series: Menil collection series; Menil collection series
Publisher: Menil Collection; Distributed by Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houston; New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780300123777
Subjects: Art; Art collections; Human rights workers; Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.); Collectors and collecting; Art patronage
Notes: "Selections from the Menil Archives Film and Media Collection": p. [320]-323.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-327 ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Living to create :; title: a memoir  -- Dorothea Tanning; title: Aesthetics as a vocation  -- Pamela G. Smart; title: On the nature of the de Menil Collections  -- Walter Hopps; title: Two museums and two universities :; title: toward The Menil Collection  -- William A. Camfield; title: Living and learning with Mrs. D.  -- Suzanne Deal Booth; title: Lessons in development :; title: John and Dominique de Menil and the media arts  -- Gerald O'Grady; title: The Menil advocacy for human rights :; title: a personal account  -- Francesco Pellizzi; title: John and Dominique de Menil and the Houston Civil Rights Movement  -- Alvia J. Wardlaw; title: In good faith :; title: remembering John de Menil  -- Deloyd Parker; title: Losing one's head :; title: John and Dominique de Menil as collectors  -- Kristina Van Dyke; title: The Rothko Chapel :; title: toward the infinite  -- Pia Gottschaller; title: Regard the light :; title: the Dan Flavin installation at Richmond Hall  -- Clare Elliott; title: The Byzantine fresco chapel :; title: Lysi in the art history of Cyprus  -- Annemarie Weyl Carr; title: John and Dominique de Menil as patrons of architecture, 1932-97  -- Stephen Fox; title: Working with light :; title: a portrait of Dominique de Menil  -- Renzo Piano; title: The porosity of The Menil Collection  -- Richard Ingersoll; title: Lightness and gravity :; title: the Cy Twombly Gallery  -- Paul Winkler; title: Matisse's Vence Chapel with John de Menil and Father Couturier  -- Christophe de Menil; title: Dominique de Menil :; title: sketch for a portrait  -- Bertrand Davezac; title: From surprise to marvel :; title: Dominique de Menil as curator  -- Simone Swan; title: Memoranda :; title: John and Dominique de Menil and the Dream of Black Mountain  -- Thomas McEvilley; title: Mrs. D. and me -- Mel Chin.