Long Island Moderns

Long Island Moderns
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Publisher : Heckscher Museum of Art
Total Pages : 136
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ISBN-10 : UCSD:31822036370211
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Book Synopsis Long Island Moderns by : Kenneth Wayne

Download or read book Long Island Moderns written by Kenneth Wayne and published by Heckscher Museum of Art. This book was released on 2009 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long Island Moderns provides a new cultural narrative of Long Island in the 20th century. Throughout the period important artist such as Lee Krasner, Fernand Leger, Irving Penn and Cindy Sherman lived and worked on the island. Beginning in the late-1920s, architects like Albert Frey, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Wallace Harrison built homes for themselves or their clients. From the mid-1940s, Long Island became home to works by Masters of Modernism like Philip Johnson and Marcel Breuer and new communities like Levittown changed the landscape.


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