The Menil Collection : a selection from the paleolithic to the modern era.

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TextPublisher: New York : H.N. Abrams, 1987Description: 320 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cmISBN: 0810914409; 0810923300 (pbk.)Subject(s): Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.) | Art -- Texas -- Houston | Menil, John de -- Art collections | Menil, Dominique de -- Art collections | Art -- Private collections -- Texas -- HoustonGenre/Form: Bildband.Additional physical formats: Menil Collection.DDC classification: 708.164/1411 LOC classification: N576.H68 | M46 1987

Partial contents:

22 critical essays ... art of ancient cultures -- Medieval and Byzantine art -- European painting, sixteenth-eighteeneth century -- Image of the Black in Western art -- Colonial art in the New World -- Art of the tribal cultures -- Twentieth Century art.

Summary: "The Menil Collection: A selection from the Paleolithic to the Modern Era presents works of art from the extraordinary private collection of Dominique and John de Menil, which was assembled over the last forty years. This book, and the new museum built to house the collection in Houston, Texas, for the first time make available to the public the content of The Menil Collection. The nearly 250 works shown here in color reproductions are, of couse, only a fraction of the collection's 10,000 items that include painting, drawings, prints and photographs, rare books, sculpture, and precious objects."--Page 2 of cover.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books / Monographs	Dominican University College Library / Collège Universitaire Dominicain Hours of operation: Monday - Thursday 8am - 8:30 pm; Friday 8am - 4pm \| Les heures d'ouverture : Lundi à jeudi de 8 h à 20 h 30; vendredi 8h - 16h Fra Angelico Room / Salle Fra Angelico	Gaston Petit Collection	N 576 .H68 M46 1987 (Browse shelf (Opens below))	Available		100000007069

Ill. on lining papers.

"Times Mirror books"--T.p. verso.

Published on the occasion of the inauguration, on June 7, 1987, of the Menil Collection, a museum established by the Menil Foundation and other benefactors.

Includes bibliographies and index.

"The Menil Collection: A selection from the Paleolithic to the Modern Era presents works of art from the extraordinary private collection of Dominique and John de Menil, which was assembled over the last forty years. This book, and the new museum built to house the collection in Houston, Texas, for the first time make available to the public the content of The Menil Collection. The nearly 250 works shown here in color reproductions are, of couse, only a fraction of the collection's 10,000 items that include painting, drawings, prints and photographs, rare books, sculpture, and precious objects."--Page 2 of cover.

Gift; Gaston Petit, O.P.; 2020.

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