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Product Identifiers
PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-100943739330
ISBN-139780943739335
eBay Product ID (ePID)64337025
Product Key Features
TopicSculpture & Installation, Landscape
Publication Year2007
Book TitleFranklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden at Ucla
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
IllustratorYes
GenreArt, Architecture
AuthorCynthia Burlingham
FormatHardcover
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2007-037700
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal735.29/074019494
SynopsisFor nearly thirty years, starting in the 1960s, Franklin D. Murphy was a dominant figure in the cultural development of Los Angeles. As chancellor of UCLA and later as chief executive of the "Times Mirror "company, Murphy channeled more than a billion dollars into the city's universities, museums, concert halls, and libraries. The Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden, one of his landmark projects, is also one of the UCLA campus's great treasures. Standing as a model for sculpture gardens internationally since its dedication in 1967, the Murphy Garden features seventy-two important modern and contemporary sculptures in a five-acre site designed by landscape architect Ralph Cornell. This fully-illustrated catalog documents the entire Murphy Garden collection and provides a scholarly entry for each artist--a sampling of which includes Deborah Butterfield, Alexander Calder, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, Auguste Rodin, and David Smith. Three essays--by Victoria Steele, Cynthia Burlingham, and Marc Treib-- focus respectively on the role of Franklin Murphy in the garden's planning and execution, the acquisition of the sculptures, and the garden's significance within the history of sculpture garden design.