Inge Meijer : the plant collection /
When Willem Sandberg, the newly appointed director of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, held an exhibition in 1946 in honour of Piet Mondrian, he did something quite remarkable. He placed a Swiss cheese plant next to Mondrian's paintings. For Sandberg, the aesthetic placement of a plant in the...
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Dutch |
| Language Notes: | Dutch with English translation. |
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Amsterdam :
Stichting Roma Publications,
[2019]
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| Series: | ROMA publication ;
362. |
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| Summary: | When Willem Sandberg, the newly appointed director of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, held an exhibition in 1946 in honour of Piet Mondrian, he did something quite remarkable. He placed a Swiss cheese plant next to Mondrian's paintings. For Sandberg, the aesthetic placement of a plant in the museum made a statement. No longer would the Stedelijk be an elite temple for art. Rather, he wanted the public to become accustomed to contemporary art in a familiar, domestic environment. Artist Inge Meijer investigated the vanished and subsequently forgotten vegetation in the museum during the 1945-1983 period for this book, rendering its history once again visible. |
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| Physical Description: | 112 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9789492811530 9492811537 |