Mark Rothko's Harvard Murals Tapa blanda - 1988

Wm Hays Fogg Art Museum, 1988-06-01. Paperback. Like New. 0.2500 11.0000 8.5000. PAPERBACK - Very minimal cover wear - clean unmarked text - tight binding.

Cambridge, MA: Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard University Art Museum, 1988. Softcover. VG- (Mostly clean but with occasional margin marks in pink marker; previous owner's blind stamp on title page, along with inscription by John Cohn, perhaps related to the editor). May have small defect on lower spine and cover from where a label was removed. Putty card wraps with color illus. and red lettering. 62 pp. with color and bw images throughout. The Harvard Murals, painted in the early 1960s, were originally installed in a penthouse of the university's Holyoke Center in 1964. But the colors of the murals soon faded from exposure to direct sunlight, and each of the paintings faded in its own distinct way. A once-coherent collection had become disparate. What remained of the paintings bore a distant resemblance to the images Rothko intended. This volume was written at this time, when all hope had faded, as well as the murals, and a team of conservators made technical examinations and… Leer más

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard U. Art Museums, 1988. First. Softcover. Very good except for creasing to the bottom tiips of the last few pages and the back cover. 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers. 62 pp, 32 text figures (25 in color) plus 30 additional illustrations, portrait. In his second attempt at the creation of murals for a public space (the first attempt, completed but never installed, was for the Four Seasons Restaurant in the Segram Building, New York City), Rothko donated five panels to Harvard in 1964 as decoration for the dining room at the Holyoke Center, the University's newly-constructed administration building. Almost immediately they began to deteriorate from the effects of sunlight and wear and tear. In 1979, long after the deteriation became irreversable, they were removed and placed in storage.

Wm Hays Fogg Art Museum, 1988-06-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!