Closed Mondays [SIGNED]

Gill Lui, Elizabeth. Closed Mondays [SIGNED]. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 1999. First edition. Quarto. 136pp. Gray cloth lettered in blue, with a color photo mounted on front cover. Profusely illustrated with color photographs of art museums and their architectural details, most captioned on facing pages. Signed on the title page by Elizabeth Gill Lui. A fine, as new copy.

This book presents a body of photographic work that celebrates the museum as an art form, expressed through its architectural and environmental aesthetic. Shot between 1989-1999 this documentary includes over sixty museums in the United States, Europe and Japan.

“Closed Mondays is published to coincide with the exhibition “Closed Mondays, the museum as art form” at the American Institute of Architects Gallery, Washington, D.C. from March 2 to April 30, 1999″ (Collophon) New. Hardcover. (50292) $75