The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
"This book celebrates the Guggenheim from its inception to the present. In a highly informative essay, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Vice President and Director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, traces an odyssey that began in 1943 with a letter imploring Wright to build a "temple of spirit" for a small museum of non-objective paintings. The project endured delays and upsets for sixteen years before construction was completed in 1959, only months after Wright's death. After a major restoration and expansion project, completed in 1992, the architect's original vision has now truly been fulfilled. This beautiful volume also includes fascinating photographs taken during the museum's construction, a portfolio of photographs interpreting Wright's structure as a work of art, and images of exhibition installations within the newly restored building."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1995
Guggenheim Museum Publications : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Abrams, New York, 1995
89 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
9780810968899, 9781854371980, 9780892071265, 0810968894, 1854371983, 0892071265
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Preface / Thomas Krens
A temple of spirit / Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
The construction / photographs by William H. Short
The restoration and expansion / photographs by Lee B. Ewing and David Heald
The Museum as a work of art / photographs by David Heald
The Museum as a place for art / photographs by Lee B. Ewing and David Heald