textual records
DR2012:0015:021:023
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File containing documents in English and French, including correspondence between Melvin Charney and staff at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, notes, newspaper clippings, and waybills. Original folder inscribed in graphite: MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS DE MONTREAL
1979-1986, 1991-1999, 2005, 2007
Correspondence of Melvin Charney with Musée des Beaux arts de Montréal
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DR2012:0015:021:023
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File containing documents in English and French, including correspondence between Melvin Charney and staff at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, notes, newspaper clippings, and waybills. Original folder inscribed in graphite: MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS DE MONTREAL
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1979-1986, 1991-1999, 2005, 2007
drawings
DR2012:0012:047:034
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Includes studies, sketches and plans for the installation of a sculpture at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, a project titled Parabole No. 9,1992. The roll is labelled "Parabole No. 9, 1992, MACM Plan d'installation et dessins études".
1992
Studies, sketches and plans for the installation of a sculpture
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DR2012:0012:047:034
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Includes studies, sketches and plans for the installation of a sculpture at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, a project titled Parabole No. 9,1992. The roll is labelled "Parabole No. 9, 1992, MACM Plan d'installation et dessins études".
drawings
1992
textual records
ARCH258336
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Correspondance et rapports de diverses associations, incluant l'institut Royal d'Architecture de Canada, l'Ordre des architectes du Québec, le Prix Préfontaine, University of Calgary, et de la correspondance avec le Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal au sujet de l'exposition « Prize Award Winners 1908-1965 » qui inclus l'aquarelle de Cormier « Fontaine du Jardin Borghèse à Rome ».
1967-1977
Correspondance et rapports de diverses associations
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ARCH258336
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Correspondance et rapports de diverses associations, incluant l'institut Royal d'Architecture de Canada, l'Ordre des architectes du Québec, le Prix Préfontaine, University of Calgary, et de la correspondance avec le Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal au sujet de l'exposition « Prize Award Winners 1908-1965 » qui inclus l'aquarelle de Cormier « Fontaine du Jardin Borghèse à Rome ».
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1967-1977
DR1988:0437:008
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- This etching for a fireworks construction or macchina in the form of a triumphal arch, is surmounted with a scene of Apollo and the Muses on Mont Parnassus. The illustration also includes the Palazzo Colonna and a fountain dispensing wine.
temporary architecture
printed 1733
Etching of Michetti's design for the "prima macchina" of 1733
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DR1988:0437:008
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- This etching for a fireworks construction or macchina in the form of a triumphal arch, is surmounted with a scene of Apollo and the Muses on Mont Parnassus. The illustration also includes the Palazzo Colonna and a fountain dispensing wine.
temporary architecture
textual records
DR2012:0012:086:015
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File containing documents in French, including newspaper clippings and photocopies therefrom, related to Melvin Charney's exhibitions at the René Blouin Gallery, and Musée de Lachine. Original folder inscribed in graphite: EXPOSITION / RENE BLOUIN GAL. /LE DEVOIR 6 OCT 1990
1990
Press clippings related to Melvin Charney and his exhibitions
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DR2012:0012:086:015
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File containing documents in French, including newspaper clippings and photocopies therefrom, related to Melvin Charney's exhibitions at the René Blouin Gallery, and Musée de Lachine. Original folder inscribed in graphite: EXPOSITION / RENE BLOUIN GAL. /LE DEVOIR 6 OCT 1990
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1990
The exhibition explores one of the most adventurous and influential moments in the history of architecture: the explosion of invention and ideas that followed the October Revolution in Russia. The Soviet avant-garde architects were productivist as much as aesthetic in their concerns; they saw architecture and the arts as one, and they were committed to bringing design(...)
Main galleries
19 June 1991 to 8 September 1991
Architectural Drawings of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1917-1935
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The exhibition explores one of the most adventurous and influential moments in the history of architecture: the explosion of invention and ideas that followed the October Revolution in Russia. The Soviet avant-garde architects were productivist as much as aesthetic in their concerns; they saw architecture and the arts as one, and they were committed to bringing design(...)
Main galleries
According to a Chinese legend well-known in Japan, a giant katsura tree was planted on the moon, inspiring the proverb, “We can see the katsura on the moon with our eyes, but we cannot touch it with our hands.” The saying celebrates the quest for an absolute and is a fitting epigraph for Departure for Katsura, which pursues issues of self-identity and personal(...)
Octagonal gallery, hall cases, and Sottsass Room
9 December 1998 to 28 March 1999
Irene F. Whittome: Departure for Katsura
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According to a Chinese legend well-known in Japan, a giant katsura tree was planted on the moon, inspiring the proverb, “We can see the katsura on the moon with our eyes, but we cannot touch it with our hands.” The saying celebrates the quest for an absolute and is a fitting epigraph for Departure for Katsura, which pursues issues of self-identity and personal(...)
Octagonal gallery, hall cases, and Sottsass Room
Project
AP173.S2.1999.D2
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Series documents Lars Spuybroek's project WetGRID in Nantes, France, a housing project for 250 paintings for the ''Vision Marchines'' at the Musée des Beaux Arts of Nantes. The project was completed in 2000. Material in this series was produced around 1999. The series contains slides of the installation and slides of design development drawings. This project may also include digital design material, which has yet to be processed and which will available for consultation in 2017.
ca. 1999
WetGRID, Nantes, France (1999)
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AP173.S2.1999.D2
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Series documents Lars Spuybroek's project WetGRID in Nantes, France, a housing project for 250 paintings for the ''Vision Marchines'' at the Musée des Beaux Arts of Nantes. The project was completed in 2000. Material in this series was produced around 1999. The series contains slides of the installation and slides of design development drawings. This project may also include digital design material, which has yet to be processed and which will available for consultation in 2017.
Project
ca. 1999
PHCON2003:0005:130
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Film was made for the 1989 Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Québec showing of the exhibition "Gordon Matta-Clark: A Retrospective", organized by, and also held at, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Illinois. inscription: ABC News 20/20.
1989
16mm film print of Matta-Clark retrospective at MAC in Montreal
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PHCON2003:0005:130
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Film was made for the 1989 Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Québec showing of the exhibition "Gordon Matta-Clark: A Retrospective", organized by, and also held at, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Illinois. inscription: ABC News 20/20.
1989
drawings
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31 panneau(x)
Planches de présentation
ARCH211125
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27 planches de présentation : incluant une sculpture dessinée par Le Corbusier, Chandigarh, Unité d'habitation, La Tourette, Place Ville-Marie, Maison Lever, Brasilia, l'hôtel de ville de Toronto, Musée Guggenheim, l'édifice Seagram, "Chambre des Communes - régime Victoria", et d'autres édifices non-identifiés. 4 planches de présentation : Édifices modernes incluant la Tourette et Chandigarh par Le Corbusier.
Planches de présentation
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ARCH211125
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27 planches de présentation : incluant une sculpture dessinée par Le Corbusier, Chandigarh, Unité d'habitation, La Tourette, Place Ville-Marie, Maison Lever, Brasilia, l'hôtel de ville de Toronto, Musée Guggenheim, l'édifice Seagram, "Chambre des Communes - régime Victoria", et d'autres édifices non-identifiés. 4 planches de présentation : Édifices modernes incluant la Tourette et Chandigarh par Le Corbusier.
drawings
Quantity:
31 panneau(x)