Guggenheim Museum Collection A to Z [antikvár]

Preface Nine years liave passed and the century has changed since the first edition of this guidebook to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's permanent collection was published. Now, on the threshold of the 21st century, the museum is, in many ways, a different institution than the one that reopened in 1992 after the two-year restoration and expansion of its landmark Frank Lloyd Wright building. Since that time the museum has redefined itself as a truly international institution, expanding not just architecturally but geographically through alliances with public and private trusts around the world. The model for this global museum network has been in place since 1976, when the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and the palazzo that houses it were bequeathed to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York. With the subsequent establishment of the Guggenheim Museum SoHo (1992), the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (1997), Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin (1997), and the Guggenheim Las Vegas (2001), as well as the formation in 2000 of a partnership with the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the institution now directly participates in, rather than merely represents, cultures around the world. Today, the Guggenheim is a museum in multiple locations with access to shared collections, common constituencies, and joint programming. Nevertheless, it is the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation that constitutes the very core of the institution, no matter how far-reaching its activities may be. Assembled over the past 70 years, and still a "work in progress," the collection embodies the museum's own, unique history, which has consistently intersected with and, on occasion, catalyzed the history of 20th-century art.