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Spotlights: Collected by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Spotlights Collected by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Author:Sabine Eckmann In 2015, the U.S. News & World Report raved that the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum ?houses one of the most distinguished university collections in the country.? Spotlights: Collected by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum commemorates the museum?s ten-year anniversary in its new building at Washington University in St. Louis. Accompanying a majo... more »r reinstallation of the illustrious permanent collection, this volume gathers fifty ?spotlight? essays exploring individual works from the thirteenth to the twenty-first century.
Illuminating both famous and lesser known works by a range of artists?from Dürer to Rembrandt, Pollock to de Kooning?this book departs from conventional ?masterpieces? or period approaches to present a sampling of ongoing and new research from a variety of scholarly voices. Approximately forty contributors offer perspectives on works of their own choosing from the museum?s collection, which has been growing since 1881. More than a catalog, this book is a vivid celebration of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum?s storied history of collecting and scholarship.« less