Guide to the Art of Rockefeller Center

Name: Guide to the Art of Rockefeller Center
Price: 10.55 USD
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ISBN: 9780393328653

ISBN-10: 0393328651

ISBN-13: 9780393328653

Edition: 2006

Authors: Christine Roussel, Thomas Hoving, Thomas Hoving, Thomas Hoving

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The first easy-to-navigate illustrated guidebook to the wonderful sculptures, murals, bas-reliefs, and mosaics of this Art Deco showplace. From the depths of the Great Depression in 1929, John D. Rockefeller Jr. envisioned an unprecedented, modern, and luxurious building project. Given the theme "New Frontiers," nearly forty artists created everything from paintings and sculpture to fabrics and fountains. Rockefeller Center would be greater than its parts, nothing less than the heart of New York. Today Rockefeller Center has millions of visitors, but no hands-on guidebook to help tourists easily locate and enjoy its artuntil now. Each chapter covers a single building; one general map and…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 0.48" wide x 0.73" long x 0.05" tall
Weight: 0.550

Christine Roussel, former director of the reproductions studio at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and founder of the monument restoration company C. Roussel Inc., lives in New York City.

Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, also served as editor of Connoisseur and cultural correspondent for ABC's "20/20." The author of fifteen books, including the bestsellers Making the Mummies Dance and Tutankhamun, he lives in New York City.