Title & Author:

A modernist museum in perspective : the East Building, National Gallery of Art / edited by Anthony Alofsin.

Publication:

Washington [D.C.] : National Gallery of Art ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, [2009]
©2009

Description:

248 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.

Series:

Studies in the history of art, 0091-7338 ; 73. Symposium papers ; 50

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reinventing the National Gallery / Neil Harris -- Opening of the East Building : acclaim and critique / Anthony Alofsin -- Pei, painting, and sculpture : the perception of art in the East Building / Victoria Newhouse -- I.M. Pei's East Building and the postwar culture of materials / Réjean Legault -- I.M. Pei, Marcel Breuer, Edward Larrabee Barnes, and the new American museum design of the 1960s / Barry Bergdoll -- Toward a modernist civic monument : Pei's East Building and the city of Washington / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan -- Adding on / Marc Treib -- Abstract abstraction? : the associations of modernism at the end of the twentieth century / David B. Brownlee -- Thoughts from Walsall / Andrew Saint -- "Never so serious" : Venturi's Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery, London / Barnabas Calder -- Documents of the East Building / Maygene F. Daniels.
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Resources:
Table of contents
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ISBN:

9780300121599 (alk. paper)
0300121598 (alk. paper)

Subject:

East Building of the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.) Congresses.
East Building of the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.)
National Gallery of Art Washington, DC
National Gallery of Art (Wash.). East Building congrès.
Washington (D.C.) National Gallery of Art.
Washington (D.C.) National Gallery of Art East Building.
International style (Architecture) Washington (D.C.) Congresses.
Art museum architecture Washington (D.C.) Congresses.
Style international (Architecture) Washington (D.C.) Congrès.
Architecture des musées d'art Washington (D.C.) Congrès.
Art museum architecture
Buildings
International style (Architecture)
International style (Architecture) Washington (D.C.)
Art museum architecture Washington (D.C.)
architecture musée 20e s. congrès.
Konstmuseer Förenta staterna.
Washington (D.C.) Buildings, structures, etc. Congresses.
Washington (D.C.)
National Gallery of Art East Building
Washington (D.C.) Buildings, structures, etc.
2009

Form/genre:

Bildband.
Proceedings.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Alofsin, Anthony, editor.
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) ; 73.
Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.). Symposium papers ; 50.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261555
Call No.: NA44.P377.25 E15 2009
Status: Available