In 1942, New York art collector Peggy Guggenheim commissioned Friedrich Kiesler to design a gallery museum, to be called Art of This Century, for her collection of surrealist and abstract art. The resulting design, with its kinetic devices and biomorphic furniture, is, to this day, among the most exceptional spaces created for the display of art. It retains a deep influence on architects, designers, artists, and theoreticians alike. This book presents a rich selection of drawings, gouaches, and various other materials from ...
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In 1942, New York art collector Peggy Guggenheim commissioned Friedrich Kiesler to design a gallery museum, to be called Art of This Century, for her collection of surrealist and abstract art. The resulting design, with its kinetic devices and biomorphic furniture, is, to this day, among the most exceptional spaces created for the display of art. It retains a deep influence on architects, designers, artists, and theoreticians alike. This book presents a rich selection of drawings, gouaches, and various other materials from the archive of the Friedrich Kiesler Center in Vienna, allowing the reader to reconstruct the origins of Kiesler's design, and an almost flawless outline of the Art of This Century project. Texts and research materials provide new information on the gallery's spatial structure as well as the features of its visual design.
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Near Fine. This is a near fine softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean. Text in English and German. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition in Vienna at the Museums fur Moderne Kunst in cooperation with the Friedrich Kiesler Center also in Vienna in the winter of 2002 / 2003. The exhibition explored the architect, Friedrich Kiesler's (1890-1965) visionary concept for Peggy Guggenheim's influential Art of This Century Gallery. Friedrich Kiesler designed the installations and the unusual seating furniture for the gallery. Texts by Dieter Bogner, Eva Kraus and Udo Kittelmann. Illustrated with reproductions of Kiesler's drawings for the design of the gallery. Also vintage black & white photographs, reproductions of documents and letters. Biographical sketch. 11" high X 8" wide, 103 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
