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Book SynopsisA dedicated collector and advocate of contemporary art since the late 1940s, Giuseppe Panza has played a fundamental role in the artistic culture of his time, introducing American phenomena such as Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Pop Art, Environmental Art, and Conceptualism to the museums of Europe. Now, in a brilliant response to everyone''s primary question about Modern Art - ''What does it mean?'' Panza shares philosophical insights and personal reflections that bridge a half-century of discovering new artists and movements.
Panza was among the first to buy the works of Rothko, Kline, Lichtenstein, and many of the other major figures of post-WWII art, watching as their works skyrocketed in monetary value as well as historic importance. He pursued collecting with undiminished enthusiasm through the 1980s and 1990s, all the while searching for the best venues in which to display his latest acquisitions. Sections of his private collection were exhibited by and acquired in
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-- WINNER of the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award, 2007
Table of Contents
Contents:FIRST PART: THE EARLY YEARS Introduction; Birth; My Father; My Mother; School; The Discovery of Infinity; Biumo; Scarlet Fever; Death; Another World Near Home; The De Simoni Family; Choosing; Falling in Love; In New York in 1954; My Return. SECOND PART: FROM THE FIFTIES TO THE SEVENTIES The Beginning; Judging Art; Milan; Problems; Culture Outside Europe; American Art in Europe; The Family Grows; Missed Opportunities; New York in 1960; Mark Rothko Again; Pop Art; The The Scull and Tremaine Collections; The World's Best Collectors: Dorothy and Herbert Vogel; The 1965 Crisis; Minimalist Art; Modernism and Postmodernism; Donald Judd: Problems; 1968; Conceptual Art; The Art of Los Angeles; Los Angeles; British Artists; American Minimalist Painting; New Experiences. THIRD PART: THE THIRD COLLECTION April 28, 2002; The Third Collection of 1989: Beginning With Organic Art; The Art of Small Objects; The Art of Color; What Does It Mean?; Last Searches; New York, April 1999; People; Annibale and Marida Berlingieri; The Collections and Museums; The Larousse Encyclopedia, Published Between 1928 and 1933; The Search for a Museum; The Getty Center for Art and Humanities; A Brief History of Twentieth-Century Art; Conclusion List of Plates Index of Names Exhibitions of The Panza Collection Catalogs Picture Credits.
