TY - BOOK AU - Helfenstein,Josef AU - Schipsi,Laureen AU - Booth,Suzanne Deal ED - Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.) TI - Art and activism: projects of John and Dominique de Menil T2 - Menil collection series SN - 0300123779 AV - N576.H68 A95 2010 U1 - 708.009227641411 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Houston PB - Menil Collection KW - Menil, John de KW - Menil, Dominique de KW - Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.) KW - Arts KW - Collectors and collecting KW - Texas KW - Houston KW - Human rights workers N1 - 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 ER -