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Inge Meijer : the plant collection / Inge Meijer.
- Title
- Inge Meijer : the plant collection / Inge Meijer.
- Author
- Meijer, Inge, 1986-
- Publication
- Amsterdam : Stichting Roma Publications 2019.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Barnas, Maria,
- Description
- 112 p. : ill.; 30 cm
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Roma Publication 362
- Uniform Title
- ROMA publication ; 362.
- Alternative Title
- Plant collection
- Subjects
- Note
- "... the artist Inge Meijrer has very systematically investigated the vanished -- and forgotten -- vegetation in the museum druing the 1945-1983 period and made it visible. Delving into the museum archives, she tracked down a total of 272 photographs containing plants (253 in het Stedelijk and 19 in Museum Fodor)"--Page 4.
- Includes an interview with Inge Meijer, conducted by Maria Barnas.
- Language (note)
- Text in Dutch with English translation.
- ISBN
- 9789492811530
- 9492811537
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries