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Art and activism : projects of John and Dominique de Menil / edited by Josef Helfenstein and Laureen Schipsi ; [essays by] Suzanne Deal Booth [and others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Menil collection seriesPublisher: Houston : Menil Collection, 2010Distributor: New Haven, Conn. : Distributed by Yale University Press Description: 342 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 31 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0300123779
  • 9780300123777
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 708.009227641411 22
LOC classification:
  • N576.H68 A95 2010
Contents:
Living to create : a memoir / Dorothea Tanning -- Aesthetics as a vocation / Pamela G. Smart -- On the nature of the de Menil Collections / Walter Hopps -- Two museums and two universities : toward The Menil Collection / William A. Camfield -- Living and learning with Mrs. D. / Suzanne Deal Booth -- Lessons in development : John and Dominique de Menil and the media arts / Gerald O'Grady -- The Menil advocacy for human rights : a personal account / Francesco Pellizzi -- John and Dominique de Menil and the Houston Civil Rights Movement / Alvia J. Wardlaw -- In good faith : remembering John de Menil / Deloyd Parker -- Losing one's head : John and Dominique de Menil as collectors / Kristina Van Dyke -- The Rothko Chapel : toward the infinite / Pia Gottschaller -- Regard the light : the Dan Flavin installation at Richmond Hall / Clare Elliott -- The Byzantine fresco chapel : Lysi in the art history of Cyprus / Annemarie Weyl Carr -- John and Dominique de Menil as patrons of architecture, 1932-97 / Stephen Fox -- Working with light : a portrait of Dominique de Menil / Renzo Piano -- The porosity of The Menil Collection / Richard Ingersoll -- Lightness and gravity : the Cy Twombly Gallery / Paul Winkler -- Matisse's Vence Chapel with John de Menil and Father Couturier / Christophe de Menil -- Dominique de Menil : sketch for a portrait / Bertrand Davezac -- From surprise to marvel : Dominique de Menil as curator / Simone Swan -- Memoranda : John and Dominique de Menil and the Dream of Black Mountain / Thomas McEvilley -- Mrs. D. and me / Mel Chin.
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Includes filmography.

"Selections from the Menil Archives Film and Media Collection": p. [320]-323.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-327) and index.

Living to create : a memoir / Dorothea Tanning -- Aesthetics as a vocation / Pamela G. Smart -- On the nature of the de Menil Collections / Walter Hopps -- Two museums and two universities : toward The Menil Collection / William A. Camfield -- Living and learning with Mrs. D. / Suzanne Deal Booth -- Lessons in development : John and Dominique de Menil and the media arts / Gerald O'Grady -- The Menil advocacy for human rights : a personal account / Francesco Pellizzi -- John and Dominique de Menil and the Houston Civil Rights Movement / Alvia J. Wardlaw -- In good faith : remembering John de Menil / Deloyd Parker -- Losing one's head : John and Dominique de Menil as collectors / Kristina Van Dyke -- The Rothko Chapel : toward the infinite / Pia Gottschaller -- Regard the light : the Dan Flavin installation at Richmond Hall / Clare Elliott -- The Byzantine fresco chapel : Lysi in the art history of Cyprus / Annemarie Weyl Carr -- John and Dominique de Menil as patrons of architecture, 1932-97 / Stephen Fox -- Working with light : a portrait of Dominique de Menil / Renzo Piano -- The porosity of The Menil Collection / Richard Ingersoll -- Lightness and gravity : the Cy Twombly Gallery / Paul Winkler -- Matisse's Vence Chapel with John de Menil and Father Couturier / Christophe de Menil -- Dominique de Menil : sketch for a portrait / Bertrand Davezac -- From surprise to marvel : Dominique de Menil as curator / Simone Swan -- Memoranda : John and Dominique de Menil and the Dream of Black Mountain / Thomas McEvilley -- Mrs. D. and me / Mel Chin.

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