A Modernist Museum in Perspective: The East Building, National Gallery of ArtAnthony Alofsin This fascinating book is the first critical examination of the East Building, I. M. Pei's celebrated addition to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Distinguished contributors consider this iconic building from various historical vantage points, from the evolution of its design to its place in 20th-century museum architecture.
Essays by Neil Harris, Anthony Alofsin, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, and Réjean Legault discuss the building's relationship to the city of Washington, its critical and public reception, and the special nature of its use of materials. Barry Bergdoll and David Brownlee compare it to contemporary works by Marcel Breuer, Edward Larrabee Barnes, and other modernists. Victoria Newhouse, Marc Treib, Barnabas Calder, and Andrew Saint consider it in the context of museum architecture, exploring the relationship between art installations and museum design, museum additions by other well-known architects, and the challenges of building and supporting an art museum outside a major metropolitan area. Drawings, models, and photographs provide a visual history of the building's development.
Published by the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts / Distributed by Yale University Press |
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... walls for the presentation of art . The largest exterior wall of Peter Eisenman's Wexner Center for the Arts ( 1989 ) in Colum- bus , Ohio , is glazed and therefore rules out placing art on it , as do the concave interior walls of Peter ...
... wall colors , each indicating a different period in the artist's stylistic evolution . Installations of the ... wall , has been replaced by Ellsworth Kelly's sixteen canvases of 1978 , Color Panels for a Large Wall . ) The origi- nal ...
... wall , are brought flush with the walls at the top and isolated by a shadow gap to remind us that neither the wall panel nor the skirting is structural , and that each is an independent component in a partition wall ( fig . 12 ) .36 ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Reinventing the National Gallery | 23 |
Acclaim and Critique | 47 |
Copyright | |
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