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"Before cracking the spine of Great Meadows: The Making of Here, Hatje Cantz's handsome new compendium on famed collector Al Shands's Kentucky estate, it seems fair to describe his legendary residence as an art-world landmark. After all, the Episcopal priest's spectacular personal holdings span the worlds of contemporary art and design from A (Alice Aycock) to Z (Zaha Hadid). But while parsing through the volume's thoughtful essays and photographs, it becomes clear that Shands's home\u2014with its meandering, mile-long driveway and its ever-growing art collection\u2014is not a destination at all, but an ongoing journey, and an epic one at that.\n\nPinterestFacebookSol LeWitt's *Untitled Wall Drawing* (1993) anchors a living room at Great Meadows.\n\n Photo by Ross Gordon, courtesy of Hatje Cantz.\n\nEdited by curator Julien Robson, the book travels back to Shands's teenage years, when he spent weekends wandering through the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and traces that nascent passion to the present day, as the reverend continues to fill his 1980s David Morton\u2013designed home with exemplary art. Shands, whose collection will be bequeathed to the Louisville Speed Art Museum upon his death, dedicates the book to his late wife, Mary, fondly describing his lifelong collecting odyssey as \"milestones on the road.\"\n\nPinterestFacebookAlyson Shotz's *Axis of Rotation* (2007), left, is one of several pieces surrounding a driveway circle.\n\n Photo by Edward A. Winters, courtesy of Hatje Cantz."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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