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Hollywood Arensberg - Avant-Garde Collecting in Midcentury L.A. (Hardcover)
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Hollywood Arensberg - Avant-Garde Collecting in Midcentury L.A. (Hardcover)
Series: BIBLIOTHECA PAEDIATRICA REF KARGER
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This comprehensive reconstruction and interpretation of Louise and
Walter Arensberg's groundbreaking collection of modern and
pre-Columbian art takes readers room by room, wall by wall, object
by object through the couple's Los Angeles home in which their
collection was displayed. Following the Armory Show of 1913, Louise
and Walter Arensberg began assembling one of the most important
private collections of art in the United States, as well as the
world's largest private library of works by and about the
philosopher Sir Francis Bacon. By the time Louise and Walter
died--in 1953 and 1954, respectively--they had acquired some four
thousand rare books and manuscripts and nearly one thousand works
of art, including world-class specimens of Cubism, Surrealism, and
Primitivism, the bulk of Marcel Duchamp's oeuvre, and hundreds of
pre-Columbian objects. These exceptional works filled nearly all
available space in every room of their house--including the
bathrooms. The Arensbergs have long had a central role in the
histories of Modernism and collecting, but images of their
collection in situ have never been assembled or examined
comprehensively until now. Presenting new research on how the
Arensbergs acquired pre-Columbian art and featuring
never-before-seen images, Hollywood Arensberg demonstrates the
value of seeing the Arensbergs' collection as part of a single
vision, framed by a unique domestic space at the heart of
Hollywood's burgeoning artistic scene.
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