Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art - The Arthur Drexler Years, 1951-1986

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Thomas S. Hines

Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art - The Arthur Drexler Years, 1951-1986

Thomas S. Hines

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Getty Publications
22 January 2019

Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus; History of architecture; Museums & museology; History of the Americas; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000

Arthur Drexler (1921-1987) served as the curator and director of the Architecture and Design Department at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) from 1951 until 1986— the longest curatorship in the museum’s history. Over four decades he conceived and oversaw trailblazing exhibitions that not only reflected but also anticipated major stylistic developments. Although several books cover the roles of MoMA’s founding director, Alfred Barr, and the department’s first curator, Philip Johnson, this is the only in-depth study of Drexler, who gave the department its overall shape and direction.

During Drexler’s tenure, MoMA played a pivotal role in examining the work and confirming the reputations of twentieth-century architects, among them Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Richard Neutra, Marcel Breuer, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Exploring unexpected subjects—from the design of automobiles and industrial objects to a reconstruction of a Japanese house and garden—Drexler’s boundary-pushing shows promoted new ideas about architecture and design as modern arts in contemporary society. The department’s public and educational programs projected a culture of popular accessibility, offsetting MoMA’s reputation as an elitist institution.

Drawing on rigorous archival research as well as author Thomas S. Hines’s firsthand experience working with Drexler, Architecture and Design at the Museum ofModern Art analyzes how MoMA became a touchstone for the practice and study of midcentury architecture.

By: Thomas S. Hines
Imprint: Getty Publications
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 261mm, Width: 210mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 1.112kg
ISBN: 9781606065815
ISBN 10: 1606065815
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 22 January 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Preface 1 Prologue: MoMA's Department of Architecture and Design, 1932-1951 2 The Rise of Arthur Drexler, 1925-1951 3 Apprenticeship: Drexler as Curator, 1951-1956 4 Modernism at High Tide: Drexler as Department Director, 1956-1966 5 Creative Destruction: Drexler, MoMA, and the Changing Course of Modern Architecture, 1966-1975 6 Modernism under Siege: Drexler, MoMA, and the Postmodernist Challenge, 1975-1985 7 Modernism Reconsidered: Drexler and MoMA, 1980-1986 Notes Index

THOMAS S. HINES is professor emeritus of history and architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Reviews for Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art - The Arthur Drexler Years, 1951-1986

Given the pivotal role MoMA played in advancing, documenting, and critiquing modern design, this book is valuable not only for its examination of Drexler's impact but also as a historiography of modern architecture. -- Choice [A] meticulously researched account . . . -- Architectural Record This volume is richly illustrated with [106] black and white reproductions of photographs, buildings, exhibition installations and models. . . . It would be an appropriate addition for museum libraries or academic art libraries that support curatorial or museum studies departments. -- ARLIS/NA A fascinating examination. -- Journal of Design History Anyone interested in A&D at MoMA should read The Arthur Drexler Years, 1951-1986, especially those who want to know more about such important exhibitions as Built in USA: Post-War Architecture (1953), The New City: Architecture and Urban Renewal (1967), The Architecture of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1975), and Mies van der Rohe Centennial Exhibition (1986). --A Daily Dose of Architecture Books