Title & Author:

Partners in design : Alfred H. Barr Jr. and Philip Johnson / edited by David A. Hanks ; essays by Donald Albrecht, Barry Bergdoll, Paul Galloway, David A. Hanks, Juliet Kinchin.

Publication:

New York : The Monacelli Press, 2015.
©2015

Description:

239 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Catalogue of an exhibition opening at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in April 2016, and travelling to the Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Boston, and Grey Art Gallery, New York University, in 2016-2017.
"The Liliane and David M. Stewart Program for Modern Design"--Title page.
Published also in French under title: Partenaires en design : Alfred H. Barr Jr. et Philip Johnson.
Includes bibliographical references (page 227) and index.
The Bauhaus : Mecca of Modernism / David A. Hanks -- The High Bohemia of 1930s Manhattan / Donald Albrecht -- Laboratories for Modernism : The Johnson and Barr Apartments / David A. Hanks -- Modernists Abroad -- Modern Architecture : International Exhibition / Barry Bergdoll -- Machine Art : Elements of a New Beauty / Juliet Kinchin -- Spreading the Gospel of Modern Design / David A. Hanks.
Includes reproductions of CCA collection material.

Summary:

"The story of Alfred Barr and Philip Johnson, two young men, now acknowledged as giants in the history of modernism, who changed the course of design in the United States. In the 1920s and 1930s a new aesthetic emerged in the United States, based on the principles of the Bauhaus in Germany: rational, functional design devoid of ornament and without reference to historical styles. Alfred H. Barr Jr., founding director of the Museum of Modern Art, and Philip Johnson, director of its architecture department, were the leading proponents of the modern approach. Using as their laboratories both MoMA and their own apartments in New York, Barr and Johnson experimented with new ideas in museum ideology, extending the scope beyond painting and sculpture to include design and film; with exhibitions of ordinary objects elevated to art by their elegant design; and with installations in dramatically lit galleries with smooth, white walls"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781580934336 (hardback)
1580934331 (hardback)

Subject:

Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981 Influence.
Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005 Influence.
Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981.
Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005.
Barr, Alfred H. 1902-1981
Johnson, Philip 1906-2005
Bauhaus Influence.
Bauhaus.
Design 2016
Design United States History 20th century.
Modernism (Aesthetics) United States History 20th century.
Design États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Modernisme (Esthétique) États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
21.82 industrial design.
DESIGN Decorative Arts.
ARCHITECTURE History Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
DESIGN History & Criticism.
Design.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Architektur
Design historia.
Modernism historia.
Influenser.
Design United States History 20th century Exhibitions.
Modernism (Aesthetics) United States History 20th century Exhibitions.
United States.
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
History.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Hanks, David A., editor, contributor.
Albrecht, Donald, contributor.
Bergdoll, Barry, contributor.
Galloway, Paul, 1977- contributor.
Kinchin, Juliet, contributor.
Hanks, David A. editor.
Albrecht, Donald author.
Bergdoll, Barry author.
Galloway, Paul author.
Kinchin, Juliet author.
Bolton, Bruce D. writer of preface.
Bondil, Nathalie writer of preface.
Lambert, Phyllis writer of foreword.
Liliane and David M. Stewart Program for Modern Design
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal host institution.
Davis Museum and Cultural Center host institution.
Grey Art Gallery host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291315
Call No.: NA44.J68.9 P37 2015
Status: Available