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List of Illustrations | p. x |
Acknowledgments | p. xiv |
Preface | p. xviii |
Prologue: Knowing Alfred Barr | p. 2 |
The Princeton Years | p. 18 |
Morey as Mentor | |
Barr and Mather | |
Barr Moves On to Vassar | |
Barr's Incipient Interest in Modernism | |
Harvard versus Princeton | |
The Fogg Method and Paul J. Sachs: Barr and His Harvard Mentor | p. 36 |
Norton, the Father of Art History | |
Kirstein the Student, Ruskin the Critic | |
Initiation of Formalism at Harvard | |
The Contribution of Berenson | |
Professors of the Fogg Method | |
The Fogg Museum | |
Sachs, the Associate Director | |
The Old Boy Network | |
The Museum Course | |
Barr Lectures on Modern Art | |
Barr's Oral Exams | |
Barr as Teacher, 1925 to 1927 | p. 86 |
First Teaching Job | |
Barr Proposes the First Course on Modern Art | |
Barr and J. B. Neumann | |
An Embarrassing Public Lecture | |
Vanity Fair as a Source of Modernism | |
Barr Delivers the First Course in Modernism | |
Patrons of Modernism | |
Barr's First Modern Exhibition | |
The Little Magazine and Modernism at Harvard | p. 122 |
The Prodigious Lincoln Kirstein | |
The Expatriates | |
Hound & Horn | |
The Dial | |
Ezra Pound | |
Malcolm Cowley | |
Matthew Josephson | |
Hound & Horn and the Visual | |
The European Trip | p. 146 |
Barr Joins the Rebels in Europe | |
Research in England | |
Barr and Neumann | |
Holland, Then Germany | |
The Bauhaus School | |
Two Months in Moscow, 1927-1928 | |
Icons | |
The LEF | |
Eisenstein | |
Rodchenko | |
Kino | |
VKhUTEMAS | |
Lissitzky | |
Tatlin | |
Leningrad and Beyond | |
Back at Wellesley | |
Into the Future | |
Modernism Takes Its Turn in America | p. 190 |
Important Precedents | |
The Harvard Society for Contemporary Art | |
The Museum of Modern Art Is Launched | |
The Multimedia Museum | |
The First Modern Museum Appears in Hartford | |
Kirstein Renounces Modernism | |
American Artists Find Their Champion | |
The Museum Reaches a Milestone | |
Architecture, Barr, and Henry-Russell Hitchcock | p. 242 |
Hitchcock the Historian | |
The Influence of Le Corbusier the Rationalist | |
Functionalism versus Architecture as Art | |
Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus | |
Hitchcock's Writings | |
Barr's Writings | |
Hitchcock's Appreciation of Oud | |
The Russians | |
Hitchcock's First Magnum Opus | |
Painting toward Architecture | |
General Principles of the New Style Established | |
Barr's Review of Hitchcock's Book | |
Philip Johnson and Barr: Architecture and Design Enter the Museum | p. 276 |
Johnson and Barr | |
Johnson and Hitchcock | |
Johnson and Mies | |
The International Style | |
Style versus Functionalism | |
The Exhibition and Its Catalogue | |
Industrial Design | |
The "Machine Art" Exhibition | |
The 1938 Bauhaus Exhibition | |
The Role of Architecture | |
The Directorship at Full Throttle | p. 314 |
"Cubism and Abstract Art" | |
Kahnweiler's Precedent | |
Barr Paves the Way for Greenberg | |
The Chart: Modernism in Time and Space | |
Collision with Meyer Schapiro | |
Cubism into Architecture | |
Pluralism | |
Surrealism | |
Picasso, 1939 | |
Matisse | |
Barr's Hidden Agenda | |
Epilogue | p. 354 |
Barr's Battle with the Trustees | |
Fired | |
Barr's Tenacity | |
The New Director | |
Building the Collection | |
Notes | p. 378 |
Illustration Credits | p. 460 |
Index | p. 462 |
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