{"product_id":"renaissance-a-new-museum-for-princeton-9780691978918","title":"Renaissance: A New Museum for Princeton","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA richly illustrated retrospective history of the Princeton University Art Museum\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA commemorative 2025 edition marking the opening of the university's new museum\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRenaissance: A New Museum for Princeton\u003c\/i\u003e reflects on the history of the Princeton University Art Museum as one of the oldest collecting institutions in North America and the role of its architecture in campus making. The 2025 opening of its new building affirms the museum's long-standing commitment to considering works of art in the original as essential tools for understanding the wider world. Designed by Adjaye Associates in association with Cooper Robertson, the new facility positions the museum at the heart of both campus and civic life as a center for the public humanities. With dramatically expanded space for the display, conservation, and study of the museum's globe-spanning collections, the building is shaped from nine interlocking \"pavilions\" to weave its dramatic volumes successfully into a complex built and natural environment, creating spaces to amplify the exceptional diversity of objects to be found within. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRenaissance: A New Museum for Princeton\u003c\/i\u003e unites stunning new photography by Richard Barnes with a series of illuminating essays. Museum Director James Christen Steward offers a richly illustrated investigation of the institution's history from the eighteenth century to the present as one of building, effacing, and building anew. Renowned architecture critic Paul Goldberger provides a consideration of the building in relation to museum architecture and design, while University Architect Ron McCoy reflects on the museum's architecture and its contribution to the life and built environment on the Princeton campus. Art critic Mark Stevens, Princeton Class of 1973, shares an evocative meditation on what it means to have such a museum at Princeton, and award-winning poet Susan Stewart contributes an original poem for the publication. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDistributed for the Princeton University Art Museum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Christen Steward\u003c\/b\u003e is the Nancy A. Nasher-David J. Haemisegger, Class of 1976, Director of the Princeton University Art Museum. \u003cb\u003ePaul Goldberger\u003c\/b\u003e is a Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and a columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eRon McCoy\u003c\/b\u003e is University Architect at Princeton University. \u003cb\u003eMark Stevens\u003c\/b\u003e is an art critic and the coauthor of \u003ci\u003ede Kooning: An American Master\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. \u003cb\u003eSusan Stewart\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, critic, and translator whose books include \u003ci\u003eThe Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eRichard Barnes\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning photographer whose work can be found in numerous public and private collections, including MoMA, the Met, and the Whitney.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Art Museum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51967121785106,"sku":"9780691978918","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_45d07691-961b-460e-8001-a2613891b3e1.jpg?v=1768926401","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/renaissance-a-new-museum-for-princeton-9780691978918","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}