Modern Artifacts / written by Michelle Elligott ; edited and designed by Tod Lippy ; with artists' projects by Mary Ellen Carroll, Rhea Karam, Mary Lum, Clifford Owen, Michael Rakowitz, Paul Ramirez Jonas ; additional text by Michelle Harvey.

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Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : Esopus Books, [2020]

Description:

354 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), facsimiles ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes index.

Summary:

Modern Artifacts features all 18 installments of the eponymous series that appeared in issues of Esopus--several of which are sold out--from 2006 to 2019. The "Modern Artifacts" series featured items reproduced in facsimile from MoMA<U+2019>s extraordinary collection--ranging from documentation related to never-before-realized exhibitions to pages from the Museum<U+2019>s first guest book--curated and introduced by MoMA<U+2019>s Chief of Archives, Library, and Research Collections Michelle Elligott. Six contemporary artists--Mary Ellen Carroll, Rhea Karam, Mary Lum, Clifford Owen, Michael Rakowitz, and Paul Ramirez Jonas--have contributed projects related to a particular aspect of the archives. These contributions--many incorporating removable inserts<U+2014>appear throughout the book, which also includes an introductory essay by Elligott and a foreword by Esopus editor Tod Lippy.

ISBN:

9780989911771 (Cloth)
0989911772 (Cloth)

Subject:

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Archives in art.
Archives dans l'art.

Added entries:

Elligott, Michelle author.
Lippy, Tod editor, designer.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Esopus magazine.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308203
Call No.: BIB 253623
Status: Available

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