The Show to End All Shows: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Museum of Modern Art, 1940

by Peter Reed and Kathryn Smith

In 1940, The Museum of Modern Art staged a retrospective of the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, the great American architect, then in his 70s, who had experienced a professional rebirth over the previous decade after many years of relative invisibility. Wright was a full collaborator in the organization of the project, which he intended, he said, to be "the show to end all shows." To accompany the exhibition, the Museum planned a publication in the form...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870700553
• ISBN13: 9780870700552
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.7" x 10.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher