Architecture and Imagery: Four New Buildings; Museum of Modern Art Bulletin, Vol. 26, No. 2, 1959
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1959. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. [2], 20, [2] including covers. Cover illustration. Illustrations. Cover has some wear and soiling. Four buildings are described here, which reflect the influences of the time, "But they also go beyond them in one particular interesting respect: they evoke images of natural or man-made objects. The buildings are National Opera House Sydney, Australia Jorn Utzon, Architect, and Ove Arup, Engineer; Notre Dame de Royan, Royan France, Guillaume Gillet, Architect and Bernard Laffaille and Rene Sarger, Engineers; First Presbyterian Church Stamford, Connecticut, Harrison and Ambramovitz, Architects, Felix J. Samuely, Engineer, and Gabriel Loire executed the stained glass; and Trans-World Airlines Terminal, Idlewild Airport,m New Your, Evro Saarinen & Associates, Architects and Ammann & Whitney, Engineers. The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art was published under various titles from June 1933 through May 2002. As the premier institution devoted to modern and contemporary art, architecture, design, photography, film, and new media, the Bulletin is a key record of Museum activity, and by extension, modernism itself. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in New York City. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, and includes over 200,000 works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated and artist's books, film, as well as electronic media. The institution was conceived in 1929 by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Lillie P. Bliss, and Mary Quinn Sullivan. it opened just days after the Wall Street Crash. Alfred H. Barr Jr. as its first director. Under Barr's leadership, the museum's collection rapidly expanded, beginning with an inaugural exhibition of works by European modernists. John D. Rockefeller Jr. eventually donated the land for its permanent site. In 1939, the museum moved to its current location designed by architects Philip L. Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone. A new sculpture garden, designed by Barr and curator John McAndrew, also opened that year. From the 1930s through the 1950s, MoMA became a host to several landmark exhibitions, including Barr's influential "Cubism and Abstract Art" in 1936. Nelson Rockefeller became the museum's president in 1939, playing a key role in its expansion and publicity. David Rockefeller joined the board in 1948 and continued the family's close association with the museum until his death in 2017. In 1953, Philip Johnson redesigned the garden, which subsequently became the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. Major expansions in the 1980s and the early 21st century, including the selection of Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi for a significant renovation, nearly doubled MoMA's space for exhibitions and programs. The museum has been instrumental in shaping the history of modern art, particularly modern art from Europe. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Sydney Opera House, Jorn Utzon, Notre Dame de Royan, Guillaume Gillet, First Presbyterian Church Stamford, Trans-World Airlines Terminal, Evro Saarinen
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