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Ladataan... Monet to Moore: The Millennium Gift of Sara Lee CorporationTekijä: Richard R. Brettell
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One of the most significant--and least studied--forms of postwar art collecting in the United States has been the corporate collection. This beautiful book documents one of the most important and widely exhibited of these holdings: the collection of Sara Lee Corporation, fifty-two works selected from the personal collection of Sara Lee’s founder, Nathan Cummings. With major masterpieces ranging from an 1872 painting by Claude Monet to a 1964 bronze by Henry Moore, the Sara Lee Collection was assembled in 1980, five years before Cummings’s death. Since then it has been exhibited in or made loans to many museums throughout the world. In 1998, the corporation announced an unprecedented gift of the entire collection to a group of forty art museums, twenty-five in the United States and fifteen in international cities in which Sara Lee Corporation has a major presence. This Millennium Gift is the largest single gift to the arts in American history and the first to include institutions outside the United States. This book discusses the Nathan Cummings Collection, the Sara Lee Collection, and the Millennium Gift. It also includes an essay on each of the fifty-two works that places the work in the context of the artist’s oeuvre, proposes new interpretations, and discusses the position of the art in the collections of the recipient museums throughout the world. Lavishly illustrated, the book also provides more than 200 comparative photographs. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Each work is also accompanied by a rather erudite essay which gives some background to the piece and also to the artist and sometimes to the way in which it was acquired by Nathan Cummings. These essays are really quite masterful. I guess the text was supplied by Richard R Brettell, who is listed as the consulting curator for the Sara Lee Collection.
The Sarah Lee corporation made a millennium gift of these art works to a number of significant museums around the world ....truly a magnanimous gesture because they are all works of considerable significance...despite the fact that Nathan was supposed to have just bought what he liked..
An interesting and beautifully illustrated book. I'm tossing up whether to keep it (with my limited shelf space) or donate it to Charity. I give it 4.5 stars. ( )