
Great Meadows
The Making of Here
Julien Robson(Editor)
Hatje Cantz Verlag
1st Edition
Published on 6. April 2014
Book
Hardback
218 pages
978-3-7757-3775-3 (ISBN)
Description
Outside Louisville, Kentucky, lies Great Meadows, the home of Episcopal priest and contemporary art collector Al Shands. Completed in 1988, the home that he and his late wife Mary built was designed by architect David Morton and tailored to be as outstanding an artifact as each of the works it houses. The collection, accumulated over a period of thirty-five years, encompasses major handicrafts and ceramic objects and has grown to focus on large-scale sculpture and site-specific commissioned work by Petah Coyne, Sol LeWitt, Maya Lin, Stephen Vitiello, and Betty Woodman.
The volume explores the complex subtlety of Morton's building, the beauty of the surrounding landscape, as well as the numerous unconventional surprises and tangents within the collection, which testify to the Shands's expertise and unerring intuition.
The volume explores the complex subtlety of Morton's building, the beauty of the surrounding landscape, as well as the numerous unconventional surprises and tangents within the collection, which testify to the Shands's expertise and unerring intuition.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Ostfildern
Germany
Product notice
Half bound
Trade binding
Illustrations
0 Abbildungen, 258 Fotos bzw. Rasterbilder
ca. 250 Abb.
Dimensions
Height: 30.2 cm
Width: 28.1 cm
Thickness: 3.5 cm
Weight
2108 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7757-3775-3 (9783775737753)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Glenn Adamson is Director of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. He was formerly head of research at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and tutor at the Royal College of Art, London. He is co-editor of the Journal of Modern Craft and author of The Craft Reader and The Invention of Craft.