Building A Masterpiece: Milwaukee Art Museum; Author: Schulze, Franz; Author: Milwaukee Art Museum; Hardback; Book

Author: Schulze, Franz; Author: Milwaukee Art Museum
Hardback; Book; 212 Colour & 24 B&w Illustrations
240 pages
Published: November 2001
Hudson Hills Press Inc
ISBN: 1555952011
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This spectacular volume celebrates the reopening of the Milwaukee Art Museum with its new addition designed by world-famous Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, joining the original building by Eero Saarinen. This architectural masterpiece -- Calatrava's first major project in the United States -- is expected to transform Milwaukee into a world-class cultural destination.Building a Masterpiece presents dramatic photographs of the new museum structure (as well as the original building) and an analytical essay by architectural historian Franz Schulze in the context of an illustrated retrospective of Calatrava's career. It also presents highlights of the museum's encyclopedic collection, each colorplate accompanied by a brief essay: Ancient, Asian, and African Art; European andThis text describes the history and construction of the Milwaukee Art Museum, as well as exploring the collection of art housed there. The volume features masterworks by artists such as Canaletto, Degas, Durer, Goya, Monet, Rembrandt, O'Keefe, Prendergast, Braque, Bearden and Rothko.