Giuseppe Panza

Memories of a Collector

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

439 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar

Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

A dedicated collector and advocate of contemporary art since the late 1940s, Giuseppe Panza has played a fundamental role in the artistic culture of his time, introducing American phenomena such as Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Pop Art, Environmental Art, and Conceptualism to the museums of Europe. Now, in a brilliant response to everyone's primary question about Modern Art - 'What does it mean?' Panza shares philosophical insights and personal reflections that bridge a half-century of discovering new artists and movements.Panza was among the first to buy the works of Rothko, Kline, Lichtenstein, and many of the other major figures of post-WWII art, watching as their works skyrocketed in monetary value as well as historic importance. He pursued collecting with undiminished enthusiasm through the 1980s and 1990s, all the while searching for the best venues in which to display his latest acquisitions. Sections of his private collection were exhibited by and acquired into major collections, particularly the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Guggenheim in New York. Among his signature innovations was the juxtaposition of contemporary art with historic settings - Baroque palaces, ancient European public buildings, his own eighteenth-century villa - in order to create unexpected and stimulating dialogues between the architectural context and the work of art.Complete with 110 full-colour illustrations, spanning decades of transformation in art and world culture, Giuseppe Panza: Memories of a Collector provides a unique glimpse into the movements and trends that have defined modern art. It is also the fascinating life story of a man who helped define the trends themselves, through passion, insight, and prophetic taste.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2008-08-21
Mått175 x 254 x 32 mm
Vikt1 384 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor480
FörlagAbbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
ISBN9780789209443

Tillhör följande kategorier

Biografi: konst och underhållning inom Biografier
Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Arkitekter och arkitektfirmor inom Kultur
Sanna berättelser inom Biografier
Fotografisamlingar inom Kultur

Giuseppe Panza was born in Milan in 1923 to a prominent family of Italian wine merchants. He studied law and entered the real estate business, but soon became devoted to his true love: acquiring contemporary art for himself and for the leading museums of the world. He credited an interior 'thermometer' that enabled him to spot up-and-coming movements, artists, and works of art, and over the course of 50 years and hundreds of purchases he was rarely wrong.

Contents:FIRST PART: THE EARLY YEARSIntroduction; Birth; My Father; My Mother; School; The Discovery of Infinity; Biumo; Scarlet Fever; Death; Another World Near Home; The De Simoni Family; Choosing; Falling in Love; In New York in 1954; My Return. SECOND PART: FROM THE FIFTIES TO THE SEVENTIESThe Beginning; Judging Art; Milan; Problems; Culture Outside Europe; American Art in Europe; The Family Grows; Missed Opportunities; New York in 1960; Mark Rothko Again; Pop Art; The The Scull and Tremaine Collections; The World's Best Collectors: Dorothy and Herbert Vogel; The 1965 Crisis; Minimalist Art; Modernism and Postmodernism; Donald Judd: Problems; 1968; Conceptual Art; The Art of Los Angeles; Los Angeles; British Artists; American Minimalist Painting; New Experiences.THIRD PART: THE THIRD COLLECTIONApril 28, 2002; The Third Collection of 1989: Beginning With Organic Art; The Art of Small Objects; The Art of Color; What Does It Mean?; Last Searches; New York, April 1999; People; Annibale and Marida Berlingieri; The Collections and Museums; The Larousse Encyclopedia, Published Between 1928 and 1933; The Search for a Museum; The Getty Center for Art and Humanities; A Brief History of Twentieth-Century Art; Conclusion List of PlatesIndex of NamesExhibitions of The Panza CollectionCatalogsPicture Credits.