The Fran and Ray Stark Collection of 20th Century Sculpture at the J. Paul Getty Museum - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892369043 ISBN 13: 9780892369041

Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008

Synopsis

This catalogue celebrates the recently installed collection of twentieth-century sculpture donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum after the deaths of Fran and Ray Stark. The book takes the reader on a visual tour of the Museum’s new sculpture gardens and installations, which feature twenty-eight works by artists including Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Fernand Léger, Roy Lichtenstein, René Magritte, Aristide Maillol, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, and Isamu Noguchi. The book offers essays on the curatorial decisions involved in establishing harmonious groupings; a history of European and American sculpture within built outdoor environments and gardens; and catalogue entries that discuss individual pieces within their broader art-historical contexts.

About this title

About the Author:

Antonia Boström is senior curator of sculpture and decorative arts at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Christopher Bedford is research assistant in the Department of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Penelope Curtis is curator of the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, England. John Dixon Hunt is professor of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. 

Review:

“The book has much to offer any reader with an interest in modern sculpture. Recommended.”—Choice 

About this edition

• Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0892369043
• ISBN 13: 9780892369041
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Boström Antonia