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The Guggenheim : Frank Lloyd Wright and the making of the modern museum / by Hilary Ballon ... [et al.]. - New York ; London : Guggenheim Museum, 2009. - 228 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 228).

The Guggenheim Museum : the New York context / Hilary Ballon -- Wright's Guggenheim Museum and later modernist architecture / Joseph M. Siry -- Competing visions of the modern art museum and the lasting significance of Wright's Guggenheim / Neil Levine -- Hybridized history : the Guggenheim Museum, the ziggurat, and the skyscraper / Luis E. Carranza -- Color, form, and meaning in the Guggenheim Museum / Gillermo Zuaznabar -- Furniture, patterns, and perfection : the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's interiors / Pat Kirkham and Scott W. Perkins -- Spaces for the display of fine art / Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer -- The museum as catalyst : artist installations at the Guggenheim / Nancy Spector -- Keeping faith with an idea : a time line of the Guggenheim Museum, 1943-59 / Angela Starita -- Updating Wright's masterpiece : the Guggenheim restoration, 2005-08 / Angela Starita.

ISBN: 9780892073856 (hbk.) 0892073853 (hbk.) 9780892073818 (pbk.) 0892073810 (pbk.)

Subjects--Personal Names:
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

LC Class. No.: N 620 .S63 A84 2009