Great Meadows: The Making of Here - Hardcover

Glenn Adamson; Philip Baldwin; Petah Coyne; Roberto De Leon; Maya Lin; Peter Morrin; David C. Morton II; Ross Primmer; Julien Robson; Ursula Von Rydingsvard; Al Shands; Alyson Shotz; Stephen Vitiello; Betty Woodman; Kulapat Yantrasast; John Yau

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3775737758 ISBN 13: 9783775737753

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014

Synopsis

Outside Louisville, Kentucky, lies Great Meadows, the home of Episcopal priest and contemporary art collector Al Shands. Completed in 1988, the home that he and his late wife Mary built was designed by architect David Morton and tailored to be as outstanding an artifact as each of the works it houses. The collection, accumulated over a period of thirty-five years, encompasses major handicrafts and ceramic objects and has grown to focus on large-scale sculpture and site-specific commissioned work by Petah Coyne, Sol LeWitt, Maya Lin, Stephen Vitiello, and Betty Woodman.The volume explores the complex subtlety of Morton’s building, the beauty of the surrounding landscape, as well as the numerous unconventional surprises and tangents within the collection, which testify to the Shands’s expertise and unerring intuition.

About this title

About the Author

Glenn Adamson is Director of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. He was formerly head of research at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and tutor at the Royal College of Art, London. He is co-editor of the Journal of Modern Craft and author of The Craft Reader and The Invention of Craft.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3775737758
• ISBN 13: 9783775737753
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 218