Author: Helfenstein, Josef (and) Laureen Schipsi (and) Suzanne Booth
Title: Art and Activism: Projects of John and Dominique de Menil
Description: Houston, Menil Collection, 2010. Hardcover. A beige fabric casebound book. There is a dust jacket with the title in white down a gray spine. Pages: (10), 11-342, (1). Profusely illustrated with color images. Contents are as follows: Living to create : a memoir / Dorothea Tanning -- Aesthetics as a vocation / Pamela G. Smart -- On the nature of the de Menil Collections / Walter Hopps -- Two museums and two universities : toward The Menil Collection / William A. Camfield -- Living and learning with Mrs. D. / Suzanne Deal Booth -- Lessons in development : John and Dominique de Menil and the media arts / Gerald O'Grady -- The Menil advocacy for human rights : a personal account / Francesco Pellizzi -- John and Dominique de Menil and the Houston Civil Rights Movement / Alvia J. Wardlaw -- In good faith : remembering John de Menil / Deloyd Parker -- Losing one's head : John and Dominique de Menil as collectors / Kristina Van Dyke -- The Rothko Chapel : toward the infinite / Pia Gottschaller -- Regard the light : the Dan Flavin installation at Richmond Hall / Clare Elliott -- The Byzantine fresco chapel : Lysi in the art history of Cyprus / Annemarie Weyl Carr -- John and Dominique de Menil as patrons of architecture, 1932-97 / Stephen Fox -- Working with light : a portrait of Dominique de Menil / Renzo Piano -- The porosity of The Menil Collection / Richard Ingersoll -- Lightness and gravity : the Cy Twombly Gallery / Paul Winkler -- Matisse's Vence Chapel with John de Menil and Father Couturier / Christophe de Menil -- Dominique de Menil : sketch for a portrait / Bertrand Davezac -- From surprise to marvel : Dominique de Menil as curator / Simone Swan -- Memoranda : John and Dominique de Menil and the Dream of Black Mountain / Thomas McEvilley -- Mrs. D. and me / Mel Chin. VG/VG: Sticker on the dust jacket at the base of the spine. Stamp on front free end page. Stamp and due date card on back pasted end page.

Keywords: European Artists ; de Menil Collection ; ; Collections - European Art


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