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Description: Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hamphsire. East façade

TitlePhillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hamphsire. East façade

Creator nameKahn, Louis Isidore

Creator name (description)Photo by Cervin Robinson

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1965–1972

Object typeArchitecture

MaterialsUnknown

DimensionsUnknown

LocationUnknown

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsLibrary architectureArchitecture, Modern

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The Old, Forever-New Things: An Introduction to Becoming America

James Glisson

Description: Becoming America: Highlights from the Jonathan and Karin Fielding Collection of Folk...

Becoming America: Highlights from the Jonathan and Karin Fielding Collection of Folk Art

When more than 250 items from Jonathan and Karin Fielding arrived at The Huntington in the summer of 2016, those of us who were involved in the installation of Becoming America knew that the American galleries would never be the same again. I had seen many objects in person and, while planning the display, pored over photographs like a greedy online...

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James Glisson

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.25-31

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00280.002

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Chapter subject tags:Folk artDecorative arts, Early AmericanCollectors and collecting

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Library, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire

William H. Jordy

Description: "Symbolic Essence" and Other Writings on Modern Architecture and...

"Symbolic Essence" and Other Writings on Modern Architecture and American Culture

A museum? A school library? To Louis Kahn our institutions were “on trial”: “When we think of the simple beginnings which inspired our present institutions, it is evident that some drastic changes must be made which will inspire the re-creation of [their] meaning.”

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William H. Jordy

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.247-260

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00114.017

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Chapter subject tags:Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974Architecture, Modern--20th centuryArchitecture--United States--History--20th centuryMuseum architecture--United States--20th centuryPhillips Exeter Academy. LibraryKimbell Art Museum

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