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Bücher Gruppe : Designmuseum: Museum of Modern Art, Pinakothek Der Moderne, Museum Für Angewandte Kunst, Vitra Design Museum, Museum Für Gestaltung Zürich (German Edition)
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Author: Bücher Gruppe
Title: Designmuseum: Museum of Modern Art, Pinakothek Der Moderne, Museum Für Angewandte Kunst, Vitra Design Museum, Museum Für Gestaltung Zürich (German Edition)
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Published in: English
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 86
Date: 2010-07-22
ISBN: 1158935560
Publisher: Books LLC
Weight: 0.3 pounds
Size: 5.98 x 9.02 x 0.2 inches
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Kapitel: Museum of Modern Art, Pinakothek Der Moderne, Museum Für Angewandte Kunst, Vitra Design Museum, Museum Für Gestaltung Zürich, Marta, Porzellanikon, Kragstuhlmuseum, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Kunstindustrimuseet, Design Museum London, Cooper Hewitt Museum, Die Neue Sammlung, Klingspor-Museum, Schriftmuseum Rudolf Blanckertz, Red Dot Design Museum, Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been singularly important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. The museum's collection offers an unparalleled overview in modern and contemporary art, including works of architecture and design, drawings, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books and artist's books, film, and electronic media. MoMA's library and archives hold over 300,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, as well as individual files on more than 70,000 artists. The archives contain primary source material related to the history of modern and contemporary art. It also houses an award-winning fine dining restaurant, The Modern, run by Alsace-born chef Gabriel Kreuther. The idea for The Museum of Modern Art was developed in 1928 primarily by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (wife of John D. Rockefeller Jr.) and two of her friends, Lillie P. Bliss and Mary Quinn Sullivan. They became known variously as "the Ladies", "the daring ladies" and "the adamantine ladies". They rented modest quarters for the new museum and it opened to the public on November 7, 1929, nine days after the Wall Street Crash. Abby had invited A. Conger Goodyear, the former president of the board of trustees of the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, to become president of the new museum. Abby became tr...http://booksllc.net/?l=de
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