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The Show To End All Shows
Peter Reed
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Description for The Show To End All Shows
Paperback. Correspondence detailing the collaboration-cum-collision between Frank Lloyd Wright and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, about the staging of a retrospective work, and the publication of a book to accompany it, is published here for the first time, including a controversial piece by Walter Curt Behrendt. Series: Studies in Modern Art. Num Pages: 240 pages, 115 illus. BIC Classification: AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 962.
In 1940, The Museum of Modern Art staged a retrospective of the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, the great American architect, then in his 70s, who had experienced a professional rebirth over the previous decade after many years of relative invisibility. Wright was a full collaborator in the organization of the project, which he intended, he said, to be the show to end all shows. To accompany the exhibition, the Museum planned a publication in the form of a Festschrift, commissioning essays from many of the best-known architecture figures of the day--Alvar Aalto, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Richard Neutra, Mies ... Read more
In 1940, The Museum of Modern Art staged a retrospective of the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, the great American architect, then in his 70s, who had experienced a professional rebirth over the previous decade after many years of relative invisibility. Wright was a full collaborator in the organization of the project, which he intended, he said, to be the show to end all shows. To accompany the exhibition, the Museum planned a publication in the form of a Festschrift, commissioning essays from many of the best-known architecture figures of the day--Alvar Aalto, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Richard Neutra, Mies ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Museum of Modern Art United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Series
Studies in Modern Art
Condition
New
Weight
959g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780870700552
SKU
V9780870700552
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