Hotel Texas An Art Exhibition for the President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy
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Biographical note
Olivier Meslay is associate director of curatorial affairs at the Dallas Museum of Art. Scott Grant Barker is a cultural historian who specializes in the art history of the city of Fort Worth. David Lubin is the Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest University. Alexander Nemerov is the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Stanford University.
<p>“<i>Hotel Texas</i> offers a rewarding aesthetic experience, as well as a history lesson.”—Clare Griffiths, <i>Times Literary Supplement</i></p>
- Clare Griffiths, Times Literary Supplement
“[a] fascinating book.”—Martin Filler, <i>New York Review of Books</i>
- Martin Filler, New York Review of Books
“Given today's astronomical art prices and insurance costs, as well as increasingly restrictive standards for the handling and display of art, it's unlikely that even local collector-philanthropist Ruth Carter Johnson (later Stevenson). . . and her art friends would today be able to put together a hotel room display of this quality. But they rose to the challenge, and the cultural elite of Fort Worth were presumably also making a statement about their place in the city's longstanding competition with Dallas. That rivalry, as well as that moment in time at that place, are explored in several excellent essays by Olivier Meslay, David M. Lubin and others in the exhibition catalog.”<i>—Wall Street Journal</i>
Wall Street Journal
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Olivier Meslay is associate director of curatorial affairs at the Dallas Museum of Art. Scott Grant Barker is a cultural historian who specializes in the art history of the city of Fort Worth. David Lubin is the Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest University. Alexander Nemerov is the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Stanford University.