Meijer, Inge, 1986- compiler, interviewee.

The plant collection / Inge Meijer.

First edition.

Amsterdam : Roma Publications, [2019]

112 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 30 cm

Roma Publication ; 362

When Willem Sandberg, the newly appointed director of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, held an exhibition in 1946 in honour of Piet Mondrian, he did something quite remarkable. He placed a Swiss cheese plant next to Mondrian's paintings. For Sandberg, the aesthetic placement of a plant in the museum made a statement. No longer would the Stedelijk be an elite temple for art; rather, he wanted the public to become accustomed to contemporary art in a familiar, domestic environment. Artist Inge Meijer investigated the vanished and subsequently forgotten vegetation in the museum during the 1945-1983 period for this book, rendering its history once again visible.

9789492811530 (paperback)
9492811537 (paperback)

Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum.
Photography of plants.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Nature (Esthétique)
20.30 history of art: general.
Bepflanzung
Museumskunde

Barnas, Maria, interviewer.
ROMA publication ; 362.

Inge Meijer

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 306060
Cote: BIB 251794
Statut: Disponible