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(NEW YORK, NY – December 20, 2011) — The
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has expanded its
digital publications resources, offering greater
access to a range of content from Guggenheim
publications, including the first exhibition
catalogue to be published by a museum in an e-book
format. A newly digitized selection of essays and
historical materials dating back to the 1937
founding of the museum are also now available at
guggenheim.org/publications.
Museum
publications currently offered for purchase as
e-books include the catalogue for the current
exhibition Maurizio Cattelan: All and the
recently reintroduced 1970 children's book I'd
Like The Goo-gen-heim. A number of essays on
a wide variety of art historical topics are also
now available as e-book singles. With selections
such as Robert Rosenblum's "From Realism to
Symbolism, 1860–1900," from the 2005 exhibition
catalogue Russia!, essays are being
digitally converted in order to make out-of-print
titles available again, particularly to meet the
needs of students and educators. E-books are sold
at select retailers including Amazon and iTunes,
with a range of books and essays available for
download on guggenheimstore.org/ebooks.
In
addition to content for purchase, selections from
key museum titles dating back to the founding of
the Guggenheim in 1937 are now freely accessible
to the public through guggenheim.org/publications.
Over 60 catalogues were scanned in their entirety
with the help of the Internet Archive project and
can now be read online. Visitors can flip through
pages of classic titles such as Alexander
Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, published
in 1964; Lawrence Alloway's groundbreaking 1963
catalogue Six Painters and the Object; or
the Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection of
Non-Objective Paintings, one of the museum’s
first publications.
As a point of entry to
guide visitors through the historic materials, a
regularly updated area of the museum's website
titled the Syllabus highlights key themes, topics,
and trends found in the Guggenheim archives. An
entry on the designer Herbert Matter, for example,
explains how Matter’s innovations in typography
and photomontage elevated many of the Guggenheim’s
catalogues in the 1950s and 1960s. The Syllabus
also offers suggestions for additional readings as
well as links for further
exploration.
About the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Foundation
Founded in 1937,
the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is dedicated
to promoting the understanding and appreciation of
art, primarily of the modern and contemporary
periods, through exhibitions, education programs,
research initiatives, and publications. Currently
the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation owns and
operates the Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue in
New York and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection on
the Grand Canal in Venice, and provides
programming and management for the Guggenheim
Museum Bilbao. The Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin
is the result of a collaboration, begun in 1997,
between the Guggenheim Foundation and Deutsche
Bank. The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, a museum of modern
and contemporary art designed by Frank Gehry on
Saadiyat Island, adjacent to the main island of
Abu Dhabi city, the capital of the United Arab
Emirates, is currently in progress. More
information about the foundation can be found at
guggenheim.org.
#1219
December 20, 2011
FOR
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT
Lauren
Van Natten, Associate Director, Media and Public
Relations
Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum
212 423
3840
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