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Murder at the Modern

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

James Marston Fitch
James Marston Fitch
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Beyer Blinder Belle41 East 11 StreetNew YorkNew York 10003, USA
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Abstract

This paper deals with a strange and isolated series of events at New York's Museum of Modern Art between 1966 and 1977, orchestrated by the Director of the Department of Architecture, the late Arthur Drexler. The events, which consisted of a series of books, exhibitions and catalogues, were all aimed at discrediting the Museum's own International Style and replacing it with Drexler's own special brand of eclectic post-modernism.

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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , Winter 1996, pp. 60 - 71
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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