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:
Proceedings of the symposium "The East Building in Perspective," organized by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. The symposium was held Apr. 30-May 1, 2004 in Washington.
Architect of the East Building: I.M. Pei & Partners.
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.
British Library not licensed to copy 0.
Dust jacket; CCA mentioned on p. 231.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

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

Subject:

Pei, I. M., 1917-2019
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.
I.M. Pei & Partners
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.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Alofsin, Anthony.
Bergdoll, Barry
Brownlee, David Bruce
Calder, Barnabas
Cropper, Elizabeth, 1944-
Daniels, Maygene F., 1948-
Harris, Neil, 1938-
Legault, Réjean, 1956-
Newhouse, Victoria
Nitzan-Shiftan, Alona
Saint, Andrew
Treib, Marc
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.)
East Building in Perspective (Symposium) (2004 : Washington, D.C.)
Centre canadien d'architecture
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