Title & Author:

The Menil Collection : a selection from the Paleolithic to the modern era.

Edition:

Newly updated ed.

Publication:

New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1997.

Description:

324 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
"This publication has been conceived and produced on the occasion of the inauguration of The Menil Collection, a museum established by the Menil Foundation and other benefactors in Houston, Texas ... opened to the public on June 7, 1987"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Dominique de Menil -- Introduction / Walter Hopps -- I. Art of Ancient Cultures -- A Statue of Eannatum, Prince of Lagash / Pierre Amiet -- Two Iron Age Brooches from the Tyrol / Ruth and Vincent Megaw -- Phalera / Ruth and Vincent Megaw -- Two Egyptian Funerary Portraits from the Fayum / Bertrand Davezac -- II. Medieval and Byzantine Art -- A Gold Byzantine Reliquary / Bertrand Davezac -- The Legend of Saint George and the Miracle of the Dragon / Bertrand Davezac -- III. European Painting, Sixteenth-Eighteenth Century -- An Equestrian Portrait by Francois Clouet / Charles Sterling -- A City in Ruins at Night by Francois de Nome / Charles Sterling -- Four Vases of Flowers in a Niche by Tomas Hiepes / Charles Sterling -- Landscape with Giant Tree by Marco Ricci / Charles Sterling -- IV. Image of the Black in Western Art -- An Oinochoe Handle / Jean Leclant -- Saint Philip Baptizing the Ethiopian Eunuch by Aelbert Cuyp / Seymour Slive -- Study of a Black Man by Joshua Reynolds / Ellis K. Waterhouse -- V. Colonial Art in the New World -- VI. Art of the Tribal Cultures -- African Aesthetics and the Art of the Ancient Mali / Susan Vogel -- Southern Cross, A Reflection on Oceanic Art / Remo Guidieri -- Deeply Carved, Art of the Northwest Coast / Edmund Carpenter -- VII. Twentieth Century Art -- A Suprematist Composition by Kasimir Malevich / Pontus Hulten -- Max Ernst, A Succession of New Beginnings / Werner Spies -- Golconde by Rene Magritte / David Sylvester -- Printemps by Francis Picabia / William A. Camfield -- Oradour-sur-Glane by Jean Fautrier / Dominique de Menil -- The Magic Mirror by Jackson Pollock / Walter Hopps -- What is the Poetic Object / David Shapiro -- VIII. The Rothko Chapel -- IX. The Menil Collection.

Summary:

"The Menil Collection: A Selection from the Paleolithic to the Modern Era presents works of art from the extraordinary private collection of Dominique and John de Menil, which was assembled over the last forty years. This book, and the new museum built to house the collection in Houston, Texas, for the first time make available to the public the content of The Menil Collection. The nearly 250 works shown here in color reproductions are, of course, only a fraction of the collection's 10,000 items that include paintings, drawings, prints and photographs, rare books, sculpture, and precious objects." "The Collection has particular concentration in four areas: antiquities from the European, Mediterranean, and Near Eastern worlds, such as the paleolithic Bone with Incised Reindeer, and the Violin Idol from the Cycladic Islands, Greece; Byzantine objects, such as the magnificent gold reliquary; art of tribal cultures, particularly African art but also artifacts from Oceania and the Americas, including headdresses and figures from Mali and Nigeria, effigies and masks from Polynesia and Melanesia, and a splendid Curtain with Thunderbird and Whale (Nitinat people) from western Canada; and modern art."--Jacket

ISBN:

0810914409 (clothbound)
9780810914407 (clothbound)
0810923300 (pb)
9780810923300 (pb)

Subject:

Menil, John de Art collections.
Menil, Dominique de Art collections.
Menil, Dominique de
Menil, John de
Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.)
Houston (Tex.) The Menil Collection.
Art Private collections Texas Houston.
Art Collections privées Texas Houston.
Art Private collections
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Texas Houston

Added entries:

Menil Foundation.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 128199
Call No.: ID N576.H68.M46; ID:97-B1553
Status: Available