The Guggenheim
Subtitle: Frank Lloyd Wright and the making of the modern museum
Publisher: Guggenheim Museum
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780892073856; 9780892073818
Subjects: New York (NY); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Description: Published on the occasion of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's 50th anniversary, and in association with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Guggenheim Museum : the New York context / Hilary Ballon; title: Wright's Guggenheim Museum and later modernist architecture / Joseph M. Siry; title: Competing visions of the modern art museum and the lasting significance of Wright's Guggenheim / Neil Levine; title: Hybridized history : the Guggenheim Museum, the ziggurat, and the skyscraper / Luis E. Carranza; title: Color, form, and meaning in the Guggenheim Museum / Gillermo Zuaznabar; title: Furniture, patterns, and perfection : the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's interiors / Pat Kirkham and Scott W. Perkins; title: Spaces for the display of fine art / Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer; title: The museum as catalyst : artist installations at the Guggenheim / Nancy Spector; title: Keeping faith with an idea : a time line of the Guggenheim Museum, 1943-59 / Angela Starita; title: Updating Wright's masterpiece : the Guggenheim restoration, 2005-08 / Angela Starita.