This illuminating ethnography of the Menil Collectionothe first such study of a major art museumoexplores how the Collection embodies its founders' desire to bind the sacred to the modern and how the Menils' legacy is being perpetuated and contested beyond their lifetimes.
This illuminating ethnography of the Menil Collectionothe first such study of a major art museumoexplores how the Collection embodies its founders' de...
Renowned as one of the most significant museums built by private collectors, the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, seeks to engage viewers in an acutely aesthetic, rather than pedagogical, experience of works of art. The Menil's emphasis on being moved by art, rather than being taught art history, comes from its founders' conviction that art offers a way to reintegrate the sacred and the secular worlds. Inspired by the French Catholic revivalism of the interwar years that recast Catholic tradition as the avant-garde, Dominique and John de Menil shared with other Catholic intellectuals a...
Renowned as one of the most significant museums built by private collectors, the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, seeks to engage viewers in an ...
