Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil
by Middleton, William
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375415432
- ISBN 13
- 9780375415432
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 2018. xiii, 760 pages; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small remainder mark (ink dot)/tail edge. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A near-fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "The first and definitive biography of the celebrated collectors Dominique and John de Menil, who became one of the greatest cultural forces of the twentieth century through groundbreaking exhibits of art, artistic scholarship, the creation of innovative galleries and museums, and work with civil rights. Dominique and John de Menil created an oasis of culture in their Philip Johnson-designed house with everyone from Marlene Dietrich and Ren Magritte to Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. In Houston, they built the Menil Collection, the Rothko Chapel, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel, the Cy Twombly Gallery, and underwrote the Contemporary Arts Museum. Now, with unprecedented access to family archives, William Middleton has written a sweeping biography of this unique couple. From their ancestors in Normandy and Alsace, to their own early years in France, and their travels in South America before settling in Houston. We see them introduced to the artists in Europe and America whose works they would collect, and we see how, by the 1960s, their collection had grown to include 17,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, rare books, and decorative objects. And here is, as well, a vivid behind-the-scenes look at the art world of the twentieth century and the enormous influence the de Menils wielded through what they collected and built and through the causes they believed in." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 111929
- Title
- Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil
- Author
- Middleton, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0375415432
- ISBN 13
- 9780375415432
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2018
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Patronage / Individual Collectors; American / 6. Late Modern, 1945-1999;
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