As part of the Smithsonian Institution, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden belongs to the nation. Its distinctive circular building on the Mall is a Washington landmark, holding one of the world's finest and most comprehensive collections of twentieth-century art. This sumptuous volume highlights 150 works in full-color reproductions, creating a survey of the century that begins with Auguste Rodin's monumental Burghers of Calais of 1884-89 and comes to the present. It also serves as an introduction to the pleasures of the museum itself. Stimulating commentaries on the individual works by the museum's curators offer a wealth of information in an easy, informal style. James T. Demetrion, the director, contributes a brief history of the museum and its collection and how it evolved out of one man's passion for collecting new art. Many internationally known artists of the twentieth century are included in this selection, together with contemporary and emerging ones. Europe and America are equally well represented, as are painting and sculpture. This book presents a great museum and provides an overview of a century of creative energy. It is written for the general reader, but students and scholars will also find much in it to interest them.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: 150 Works of Art

Arts & Photography

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

McAllister, Jane

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Hirschorn Museum & Sculpture

The Hirshhorn Collects: Recent Acquisitions 1992-1996

Eickel, Nancy

Clyfford Still: Paintings, 1944-1960

Individual Artists

The lavishly illustrated Regarding Beauty surveys late twentieth-century Western art to address why the timeless notion of beauty has recently been so hotly contested and, in the 1980's and 1990's in particular, so highly politicized.... Regarding Beauty argues that beauty has not disappeared from the dialogue of art and that, on the contrary, it has persisted as an essential element in the evolution of art as the 20th century passes into history.

Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century

Reference

Danto, Arthur Coleman

Benezra, Neal David

Viso, Olga M.

Gaßner, Hubertus

Foreign Language Study & Reference

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