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Item Number: 56283
Title: Art and Activism: Projects of John and Dominique de Menil
Author: Helfenstein, Josef; Laureen Schipsi (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780300123777
Description: New Haven: Yale University Press, for The Menil Collection, 2010. 29cm., hardcover, 344pp., 156 color, 188 b&w illus. Summary: This lavishly illustrated book is the first to examine the significant contributions of John and Dominique de Menil to art, architecture, and the civil and human rights movements. The de Menils, who moved to Houston from France in 1941, amassed one of the world’s great private art collections and became passionately involved in the cause of human rights. The volume includes a discussion of the building of the de Menils’ art collection; their patronage of modern architecture in Houston; their embrace of modernism; their leadership in Houston’s civil rights movement and in human rights projects worldwide; their commissioning of works of art and catalogue raisonnés; and their establishment of the Rothko Chapel, the Menil Collection, the Cy Twombly Gallery, the Dan Flavin Installation, and the Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum. Vintage photographs, many taken by Henri Cartier Bresson, previously unpublished correspondence with artists, and an illustrated chronology all add to this textured tribute to the de Menils’ extraordinary achievements.

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