Visions of Modern Art

by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N. Y.); Elderfield, John; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

• ISBN13: 9780870707001
• ISBN10: 0870707000
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art

Summary

It has been said that the history of modern art--especially as it is understood in the United States--is inextricably linked to that defining institution of the twentieth century, The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Since its founding in 1929, the museum has been known for its unrivaled collection of artworks created over the last century. And since its first publication was issued, in that same year, it has reproduced countless paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs and design objects from its collection, accompanying them with elucidating essays written by some of the most notable scholars of the day. Never before, however, has the collection been viewed through the lens of the museum's history in the way it is here. Visions of Modern Artnot only gathers together masterworks from the painting and sculpture department, it anthologizes the texts written about them from the museum's vast archives and publications, beginning in 1929 and ending in 2002.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 6
The Front Door of Understanding	p. 9
Post-Impressionism	p. 25
Symbolism	p. 30
Fauvism	p. 35
Later Symbolist Currents	p. 37
Matisse	p. 59
Picasso	p. 65
Cubism	p. 91
Futurism	p. 99
Brancusi	p. 101
Russia and the Bauhaus	p. 103
De Stijl	p. 107
Four Abstract Artists	p. 108
Four American Modernists	p. 110
New York Dada	p. 143
Two Fantasts	p. 146
Surealist Dream Images	p. 149
Abstract Surrealism	p. 153
Surrealist Sculpture	p. 156
Early Figurative Sculpture	p. 189
Figurative Painting Between the Wars	p. 192
Gorky and de Kooning	p. 217
Abstract Expressionist Field Painting	p. 219
Abstract Expressionism: Image and Gesture	p. 226
After Abstract Expressionism	p. 228
Proto-Pop Art	p. 229
Geometric Abstraction	p. 232
Pop Art	p. 267
Abstract and Minimalist Painting	p. 270
Minimalist Sculpture	p. 272
Post (and non)-Minimalism	p. 275
Guston	p. 301
Richter	p. 303
Gonzalez-Torres	p. 305
Cai	p. 305
Notes to the Texts	p. 325
Selected Bibliography	p. 330
Chronology	p. 334
Index	p. 348
Photograph Credits	p. 350
Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art	p. 351
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