Description
Over 300 highlights illustrate the collectors' commitment to acquiring works that challenge, excite, confound, and amuse. Essays offer context for understanding the importance of the works as a group and illuminate the art world milieus in which the collectors immersed themselves. The book also includes an engaging interview with the collectors, providing a personal perspective on contemporary art acquisition.
Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art
Exhibition Schedule:
Whitney Museum of American Art
(11/20/15-03/06/16)
Centre Pompidou, Paris
06/16/16-01/2017
About the Author
Christine Macel is chief curator at the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Elisabeth Sussman is curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Elisabeth Sherman is assistant curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Book Information
ISBN 9780300214826
Author Christine Macel
Format Hardback
Page Count 352
Imprint Yale University Press
Publisher Yale University Press
Weight(grams) 2268g