Title & Author:

The Guggenheim : Frank Lloyd Wright and the making of the modern museum.

Publication:

New York ; London : Guggenheim Museum, ©2009.

Description:

228 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
The Guggenheim Museum : the New York context / Hilary Ballon -- Wright's Guggenheim Museum and later modernist architecture / Joseph M. Siry -- Competing visions of the modern art museum and the lasting significance of Wright's Guggenheim / Neil Levine -- Hybridized history : the Guggenheim Museum, the ziggurat, and the skyscraper / Luis E. Carranza -- Color, form, and meaning in the Guggenheim Museum / Gillermo Zuaznabar -- Furniture, patterns, and perfection : the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's interiors / Pat Kirkham and Scott W. Perkins -- Spaces for the display of fine art / Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer -- The museum as catalyst : artist installations at the Guggenheim / Nancy Spector -- Keeping faith with an idea : a time line of the Guggenheim Museum, 1943-59 / Angela Starita -- Updating Wright's masterpiece : the Guggenheim restoration, 2005-08 / Angela Starita.

Summary:

Published on the occasion of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's 50th anniversary, and in association with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780892073856 (hbk.)
0892073853 (hbk.)
9780892073818 (pbk.)
0892073810 (pbk.)

Subject:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Wright, Frank Lloyd 1867-1959
Wright, Frank Lloyd.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
New York (N.Y.) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Added entries:

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 262373
Call No.: BIB 193477
Status: Available