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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Nelson, Mark (1967-....)
Titre(s) : Hollywood Arensberg [Texte imprimé] : avant-garde collecting in midcentury L.A. / Mark Nelson, William H. Sherman, Ellen Hoobler
Publication : Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2020]
Description matérielle : xv, 431 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"During the first half of the twentieth century, Louise and Walter Arensberg not only
assembled one of the world's preeminent art collections but carved out a unique place
in the history of collecting. No one before them had made such audacious connections
between modern painting, Renaissance literature, and pre-Columbian sculpture; and
few (if any) used collecting more forcefully as a medium for artistic creation and
intellectual exploration. The Arensbergs' collection first took shape in their Manhattan
apartment, where—in the wake of the Armory Show of 1913—they gave Marcel Duchamp his
first American home and presided over the salon that brought Dada to New York. It
expanded rapidly after their move to Los Angeles in 1921, particularly after they
purchased 7065 Hillside Avenue and turned it into a domestic museum and research institute.
For the next three decades they put the European Avant-Garde, the English Renaissance,
and Mesoamerican civilizations into dialogue in dense and playful displays whose visual
patterns and hidden meanings shocked and inspired visitors—including some of the period's
leading artists, writers, and curators. When Louise and Walter died in 1953 and '54,
their art, library, and personal papers were divided between the Philadelphia Museum
of Art and California's Francis Bacon Library (now housed at the Huntington). This
book uses photographic and archival records–never before assembled or examined—to
reconstruct and reinterpret the couple's collection when it was still under one extraordinary
roof in the heart of Hollywood's burgeoning artistic scene. Bringing together images
from many sources, some of them seen here for the first time, Hollywood Arensberg
takes us on a wall-by-wall tour of the rooms where Marcel Duchamp and Sir Francis
Bacon played secret games of chess on Aztec calendar stones" ; "Hollywood Arensberg
presents the first comprehensive reconstruction and interpretation of Louise and Walter
Arensberg's groundbreaking collection of modern and pre-Columbian art, giving readers
a room-by-room, object-by-object tour of the couple's home in Los Angeles"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Sherman, William H. (1966-....). Éditeur scientifique
Hoobler, Ellen (1976-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Arensberg, Walter (1878-1954)
Arensberg, Louise S. (1879-1953)
Art -- Collections privées -- Californie (États-Unis)
Art -- Collectionneurs et collections -- Californie (États-Unis)
Indice(s) Dewey :
708.194 93 (23e éd.) = Galeries, collections privées, musées des beaux-arts et des arts décoratifs - États-Unis
- Los Angeles (comté)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781606066669. - ISBN 1606066668 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46832998t
Notice n° :
FRBNF46832998
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Foreword / / Mary Miller ; ; Preface / / Mark Nelson and William H. Sherman ; ;
The king and queen surrounded : the Arensberg collection in context / / William H.
Sherman, Mark Nelson ; ; Hollywood Arensberg : a reconstruction of the home and art
collection of Louise and Walter Arensberg, 7065 Hillside Avenue, Los Angeles, California,
1927-1954 / / Mark Nelson ; ; Smoothing the path for rough stones : the changing
role of pre-Columbian art in the Arensberg collection / / Ellen Hoobler ; ; An interview
with Walter Arensberg, undated, ca. 1951 / / Kenneth Ross with notes by Mark Nelson
and William H. Sherman ; ; Biographical notes on the photographers / / Mark Nelson,
William H. Sherman ; ; Notes on the dating and locations of photographs / / Mark
Nelson with contributions from William H. Sherman ; ; Notes on selected objects /
/ Mark Nelson with contributions from William H. Sherman.
