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David A. Hanks

Partners in Design

Alfred H. Barr Jr. and Philip Johnson

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The 1920s and 1930s saw the birth of modernism in the United States, a new aesthetic, based on the principles of the Bauhaus in Germany: its merging of architecture with fine and applied arts; and rational, functional design devoid of ornament and without reference to historical styles. Alfred H. Barr Jr., the then 27-year-old founding director of the Museum of Modern Art, and 23-year-old Philip Johnson, director of its architecture department, were the visionary young proponents of the modern approach. Shortly after meeting at Wellesley College, where Barr taught art history, and as Johnson finished his studies in philosophy at Harvard, they… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Albrecht, Donald / Bergdoll, Barry / Kinchin, Juliet
  • ISBN: 978-1-58093-433-6
  • EAN: 9781580934336
  • Produktnummer: 17762159
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 232 S.

Über den Autor


David A. Hanks is a design historian and curator of the Liliane and David M. Stewart Program for Modern Design. His previous books include American Streamlined Design and Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection. Donald Albrecht is curator of architecture and design at the Museum of the City of New York. Barry Bergdoll is the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History at Columbia University and the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art. Juliet Kinchin is a curator of architecture and design at MoMA.

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