The first complete biography of the founder of New York City's Museum of Modern Art. In 1901, Abby Aldrich married John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and set about transforming the fabulously wealthy but closed-minded Rockefellers into the progressive force in philanthropy, the arts, and politics we know today. Photos.
Originally published in 1973, this marvelous collection of photographs with accompanying texts by the revered late Museum of Modern Art photography curator John Szarkowski has long been recognized as a classic. Reissued in 1999-with new digital duotones-this volume is now available to a new generation of readers. This is a picture book, and its ...
In a lively panorama of stimulating juxtapositions, sequences, and cross references, this new edition of "Modern Contemporary provides a cornucopia of 590 works of key contemporary art (37 more than in the original edition). Thought-provoking page spreads juxtapose Jia Zhang Ke, Matthew Barney and Kara Walker; Gabriel Orozco, Chris Ofili, and ...
What would it be like to live in R. Buckminster Fuller's hexagonal Dymaxion House? To visit Arata Isozaki's project for Hiroshima? To grow up in John Hejduk's Wall House? There are only fictional answers to questions such as these, but what imagination wouldn't ponder them upon seeing the drawings assembled in The Changing of the Avant Garde? ...
Growing up with the 20th century, Alfred Barr (1902-1981), founding director of the Museum of Modern Art, harnessed the cataclysm that was modernism. In this book - part intellectual biography, part institutional history - Sybil Gordon Kantor tells the story of the rise of modern art in America and of the man responsible for its triumph. Following ...
Originally published in 1973, this survey of The Museum of Modern Art's photography collection explores the evolution of the photographic medium using specific examples to illustrate its development. In concise analyses, John Szarkowski investigates the aesthetic, formal, social and historical issues of 100 photographs selected from "the Modern's" ...
In the late 1920s, conservative policies were the norm among traditional museums--that is, until three progressive patrons of the arts decided to establish an institution devoted exclusively to modern art. When The Museum of Modern Art was founded in 1929, its first director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., dedicated it to helping people understand and enjoy ...
A squat little boy with wild hair, dressed in stripes, searches for his friend, Art, and is mistakenly directed to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, where he finds a different kind of art altogether. Dali, Magritte, Monet, Van Gogh, and Warhol are just a few of the artists whose work covers the walls as the boy searches in vain for his ...
With more than 1,000 illustrations, 319 of them in full color, this is the only book ever to provide a comprehensive overview of the entire collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Included are works from all six of its departments: Painting and Sculpture, Drawings, Prints and Illustrated Books, Architecture and Design, Photography, and ...
From detailed plans made for entirely practical purposes to impressionistic sketches that reveal experimentation and the elaboration of ideas, architects' drawings are the unseen metaphoric blueprints of the buildings they precede. Envisioning Architecture, the first in a series of three titles showcasing selected works from The Museum of Modern ...
While art history has already made room for the flurry of movements to emerge in the period following World War II, the myriad artistic positions of the last 30 years have yet to be written into firm historical categories. "Drawing from the Modern, 1975-2005," the final installment in a series of exhibitions and catalogues from The Museum of ...
In 1940, The Museum of Modern Art staged a retrospective of the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, the great American architect, then in his 70s, who had experienced a professional rebirth over the previous decade after many years of relative invisibility. Wright was a full collaborator in the organization of the project, which he intended, he said to be ...
The Museum of Modern Art is now in the midst of the largest building project in its history. Designed by Yoshio Taniguchi, the new Museum will reopen in midtown Manhattan in November 2004 to coincide with its 75th anniversary. The 63O,000-square-foot Museum will be nearly twice the size of the former facility, offering dramatically expanded and ...
This visually exciting book presenting a selection of signature works by European and American artists of the postwar generations, is drawn from the UBS Art Collection, one of the richest and most varied holdings of international contemporary art in the United States. The Collection was begun in 1970 by Donald B. Marron, UBS's American Chairman, a ...
Walker Evans's radical photography of the 1930s demonstrated that unembellished photographic fact could serve as a highly poetic language. These works expanded the potential of the art of photography and at the same time defined a lasting iconography that recognized advertising, movies, and car culture as central images of modern American identity ...
A selection of MoMA's holdings in painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, illustrated books, architecture, graphic arts, photography, film, video, and installations. Louise Bourgeois, Paul Cezanne, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Vincent van Gogh, Mona Hatoum, Jasper Johns, Frida Kahlo, Anselm Kiefer, Paul Klee, Roy Lichtenstein, Rene Magritte, ...
Journeying to Queens, one of New York City's outer boroughs, is a much easier and more pleasant experience than the average urbanite would imagine. With the temporary relocation of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, to its new quarters at the old Swingline staple factory, the trip becomes a necessity for any art lover. But how do you get there? ...
Haidee Wasson provides a rich cultural history of cinema's transformation from a passing amusement to an enduring art form by mapping the creation of the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, established in 1935. The first North American film archive and museum, the film library pioneered an expansive moving image network, ...
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