Book Description
The Museum of Modern Art houses the most important collection of 20th century art in the world, and the Painting & Sculpture department forms the core of its holdings. The masterworks from this department have fundamentally shaped the way we think about modern art. Over the years, these paintings and sculptures in the Museum's galleries have served as a walk-through textbook for countless art history classes and for other visitors. Now, on the occasion of its 75th anniversary and the opening of its newly expanded building, the Museum is publishing this 500 page catalogue devoted solely to the masterworks of its core department. The volume opens with an introduction by John Elderfield, Chief Curator of the Department of Painting and Sculpture, which traces the history of the Museum, focusing on its acquisitions. In 8 subsequent sections, anthologies of texts drawn from the Museum's archives and publications offer varying perspectives on specific artworks and on modern art in general. Painting and Sculpture at MoMA offers the reader a new perspective for anyone interested in modern art. Masterworks by Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Edvard Munch, Gustav Klimt, Wassily Kandinsky, Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Fernand Léger, Umberto Boccioni, Constantin Brancusi, Aleksander Rodchenko, Piet Mondrian, Georgia O'Keeffe, Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio de Chirico, Paul Klee, René Magritte, Max Ernst, Salvado Dalí, Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, Louise Bourgeois, Auguste Rodin, Amedeo Modigliani, George Grosz, Pierre Bonnard, Balthus, Edward Hopper, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Frank Kline, Hans Hofmann, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Agnes Martin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Richard Serra, Eva Hesse, Gerhard Richter, and many, many more. Edited by John Elderfield. Clothbound, 9 x 12 in. / 504 pgs / 300 color.
Modern: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum of Modern Art FROM THE PUBLISHER
"This volume, published on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of The Museum of Modern Art and the opening of its new building, is a comprehensive overview of its painting and sculpture collection. The works selected for this publication reflect the richness of the collection, which is distinguished by masterworks as well as less-well-known examples of painting and sculpture." "Accompanying these images are texts drawn from the Museum's archives and publications, which span a seventy-five-year period. The anthology begins with an excerpt from the 1929 catalogue of the first Museum loan exhibition, which featured the work of Paul Cezanne, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Georges-Pierre Seurat, and goes on to include excerpts of texts from catalogues of major exhibitions and retrospectives of the work of such artists as Matisse, Picasso, Pollock, Louise Bourgeois, Andy Warhol, and Dieter Roth, to name a few." Modern Painting and Sculpture: 1880 to the Present at The Museum of Modern Art offers the reader a new perspective on the Museum's collection and will be a reference tool for both scholars and the general public for the foreseeable future. The volume includes 340 color plates, a chronology of the major painting and sculpture exhibitions and the dates of acquisitions of the works shown herein, a bibliography, and an index.
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