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Braun and Cie Mulhouse Paris / James Johnson Sweeney : The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum : 1071 Fifth Avenue New York [Early Pictorial Guide to the Museum's modern Art Collection, paintings, drawings, Sculpture, Major Masters in It's Collection, a Book By Master French Printers Braun + Cie, Pocket Sized guide]

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Art History / Reference / Biography. Paperback : soft cover edition in good to better condition, a typical used book with slight wear to edges and spine. Overall good / nice copy of this scarce title. Excellent reading on the subject. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand for yourself. Or would make a GREAT GIFT for the fan / reader in your life. Reading is one of the great pleasures in life. About the MUSEUM: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, founded in 1937, is a modern art museum located on the Upper East Side in New York City. It is the best known of several museums owned and/or operated by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and is often called simply The Guggenheim. It is one of the best known museums in New York City. The main part of the building is a very unusual shape, and was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. History An interior view of a museum on a busy day. Originally called ; The Museum of Non Objective Painting,; the Guggenheim was founded to showcase avant garde art by early modernists such as Rudolf Bauer, Hilla Rebay, Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian. It moved to its present location, at the corners of 89th Street and Fifth Avenue (overlooking Central Park) , in 1959, when Frank Lloyd Wright's design for the site was completed. The distinctive building, Wright's last major work, instantly polarized architecture critics upon completion,[1] though today it is widely revered. From the street, the building looks approximately like a white ribbon curled into a cylindrical stack, slightly wider at the top than the bottom. Its appearance is in sharp contrast to the more typically boxy Manhattan buildings that surround it, a fact relished by Wright who claimed that his museum would make the nearby Metropolitan Museum of Art ; look like a Protestant barn.; Internally, the viewing gallery forms a gentle spiral from the ground level up to the top of the building. Paintings are displayed along the walls of the spiral and also in viewing rooms found at stages along the way. The skylight in the center of the museum.Most of the criticism of the building has focused on the idea that it overshadows the artworks displayed within, and that it is particularly difficult to properly hang paintings in the shallow windowless exhibition niches that surround the central spiral. Although the rotunda is generously lit by a large skylight, the niches are heavily shadowed by the walkway itself, leaving the art to be lit largely by artificial light. The walls of the niches are neither vertical nor flat (most are gently concave), meaning that canvasses must be mounted proud of the wall's surface. The limited space within the niches means that sculptures are generally relegated to plinths amid the main spiral walkway itself. Prior to its opening, twenty one artists, including Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell, signed a letter protesting the display of their work in such a space. A 1966 U.S. postage stamp honoring Frank Lloyd Wright, with the Guggenheim visible in the background.In 1992, the building was supplemented by an adjoining rectangular tower, taller than the original spiral, designed by Gwathmey Siegel and Associates Architects. By that point, the building had become iconic enough that this augmentation of Wright's original design was itself controversial. In October 2005, Lisa Dennison, a longtime Guggenheim curator, was appointed director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Dennison resigned in July 2007 to work at the auction house Sotheby's. From October 2005 to February 2008, Thomas Krens remained director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, having won a decisive victory over billionaire philanthropist and board member Peter Lewis. A significant contributor to the Guggenheim Foundation, Lewis resigned in 2005 in a dispute with the board over the direction and leadership of the Foundation. Despite this, Krens and Lewis nevertheless continue to agree in describing the building itself as ; the most important piece of art in the. Illustr.: Fully Illustrated. Book

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