Softcover
1998 · Pars
by Blistene, Bernard and Lisa Dennison
Pars: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1998. Softcover. VG (minor shelf wear, otherwise all pages clean and intact). Color illustrated wraps with red and tan lettering on cover and spine, 709 pp., color and bw illustrations throughout. "A joint Guggenheim and Centre Pompidou initiative, Rendezvous reunites several masterpieces of twentieth-century art for the first time, including final paintings and their studies, and several works in a series. Unique parallels between the works of different artists, linked across the Atlantic by subject, form, and spirit, are established." - from preface. Contents Include: Monuments for a Mass Cult / Jean-Louis Cohen -- Better Late than Never / Yve-Alain Bois -- From Simplicity to Complexity: Changing Museum Architectures / Mark C. Taylor -- The World as Things: Collecting Thoughts on Collecting / Stanley Cavell -- Pompidou/Guggenheim: A Dialogue for an Exhibition / Bernard Blistene and Lisa Dennison -- Catalogue / Craig Houser -- Artist Biographies and Catalogue Entries / Susan Hapgood.
(Inventory #: 180720)