Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, edited by Abram Lerner (over sized TPB, 1974, 770 pages, $3)
I never realized that most of the Hirshhorn's collection was donated by one person. I visited there many years ago, and most likely only a few years after it opened. Man, was it a beauty, but also an oddity of modernistic design amidst the other Smithsonian buildings. Those other buildings are rectangular, while the Hirshhorn is round! I was not impressed with the shape, as it was too exotic for me, but I loved the variety of art there. "Modern Art" surely does cover a wide range of styles. Seems like artists split off in all directions of styles. But getting back to the book, it has over 1000 pictures, of which 290 are in color and on glassy paper. Interestingly enough, when this book was written the Hirshhorn had not yet opened, so some of the objects might not even have been displayed.
Look for this book in the art section.
