Little Man in a Big Hurry

Little Man in a Big Hurry
Author: Gene Hirshhorn LePere
Publisher: Vantage Press, Inc
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2009
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780533160792

The remarkable story of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, who donated the largest private art collection ever accumulated to the people of the United States.

A Guide to Smithsonian Architecture

A Guide to Smithsonian Architecture
Author: Heather Ewing
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2009-03-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1588342611

The buildings of the Smithsonian Institution not only contain impressive collections; they are themselves icons of great cultural significance, many of them part of the historic National Mall. The Smithsonian's unique buildings illustrate the changing styles and sensibilities of America as an evolving nation. Representing the work of major architects, each building evokes a specific time in history: the mid-19th-century turreted Castle, the sky-reflecting mid-century modern Air and Space Museum, and the golden, undulating, 21st-century American Indian Museum.

Hirshhorn Museum

Hirshhorn Museum
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1966
Genre: Museums
ISBN:

Considers H.R. 15121 and related bills, to establish the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in D.C. Includes index of sculptors, names of sculpture collections, and artists represented in the collection of paintings, watercolors and drawings (p. 27-112). Also considers relocating in the Smithsonian the exhibits of the Armed Services Institute of Pathology.

Artists Respond

Artists Respond
Author: Melissa Ho
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0691191182

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, March 15, 2019 to August 18, 2019."

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama
Author: Seattle Art Museum
Publisher: Prestel
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Collagen
ISBN: 9783791355948

"Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's iconic Infinity Mirror Rooms are filled with a multiplicity of lights that reflect endlessly, projecting the illusion of infinite space. Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors traces these installations over five decades, revealing the ways in which they developed from a strategy of "self-obliteration" and political liberation during the Vietnam War to a means of social harmony in the present. By examining her early unsettling installations alongside her more recent ethereal atmospheres, this volume aims to historicize her pioneering work amidst today's renewed interest in experiential practices"--