American Art and the East

FAIN: GI-50035-08

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (New York, NY 10128-0173)
Alexandra Munroe (Project Director: January 2008 to July 2010)

Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a catalog, a website, a symposium, and related educational and public programs examining the impact of Asian art, literature, and philosophy on American art from 1860 to 1970.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (SRGM) respectfully requests a National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman's Special Award grant of $1 million within the category of "America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Implementation Grant." NEH funding would enable SRGM to organize, design and present "American Art and the East," an interpretive traveling exhibition illuminating the dynamic and complex impact of Asian art, literacy texts and philosophical concepts on American artistic practices of the late 19th-century (ca. 1860-1900), early modern (ca. 1900-1945), postwar avant-garde (1945-1970) and early contemporary periods (1970 - ). Featuring 270 objects in array of media, including paintings, works on paper, sculptures, video art, installations and books, the exhibition will travel to three major cities across the United States: SRGM (Jan 2009); San Diego Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (Summer 2009) and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Fall 2009).

Associated Products

American Realism and American Drama, 1880-1940 (Book)
Title: American Realism and American Drama, 1880-1940
Author: Munroe, Alexandra
Year: 1987
Primary URL: https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=9780521067669
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780521067669

Tennessee Williams and Eliz Kazan: A Collaboration in the Theater (Book)
Title: Tennessee Williams and Eliz Kazan: A Collaboration in the Theater
Author: Munroe, Alexandra
Year: 1992
Primary URL: https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=9780521400954
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780521400954

The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity (Book)
Title: The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity
Author: Munroe, Alexandra
Year: 2005
Primary URL: https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=9780521122788
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Publisher: New York: Cambridge University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780521122788

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