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	• Rendezvous: Masterpieces from the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Guggenheim Museums Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, 1998 - 709 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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Just sit back - browse and enjoy!

I've had this book for some years now and it's one of the best pure "browsing" art books around - lots of excellent plates and solid commentaries. It's like a taking a virtual tour of two fantastic museums from the comfort of one's lap. When it comes to art, the French are our friends!

This volume surveys the history of Modern art, from the turn of the century to approximately 1970. A unique and unprecedented partnership between the Guggenheim Museum and the Musae national d'art moderne brings together more than 300 paintings, sculptures and drawings by over 150 artists, including Joseph Beuys, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Yves Klein, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock. The Musae and the Guggenheim represent two distinct kinds of museums: a public, government-run institution and a private museum. The former is one institution within a multidisciplinary cultural center; the latter has grown from a private collection of non-objective painting into a network of international museums of Modern and Contemporary art. One originally celebrated almost exclusively the Modern art produced in France, the other various abstract painters from the European avant-garde. Thus does Rendezvous allow a dialogue between two museums renowned for their contributions to the history of Modernism.

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