Main entry:

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Title & Author:

Visions of modern art : painting and sculpture from the Museum of Modern Art / edited by John Elderfield.

Publication:

New York : Museum of Modern Art, ©2003.

Description:

352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'The Heroic century: the Museum of Modern Art masterpieces' held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sept. 21, 2003-Jan. 4, 2004.
Chronology of museum is on p. 334-347.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-333) and index.
[Exhibitions surveyed]: Modern starts (1999-2000) -- Matisse Picasso (2002) -- Cubism and abstract art (1936) -- Fantastic art, Dada, Surrealism (1936) -- New images of man (1959) -- The new American painting (1958-1959) -- The art of the real (1968) -- Open ends (2000-2001).

Summary:

"Offering a congent overview of modern art since 1880, the works selected for this volume reflect the richness of the collection, which is distinguished by "masterworks" and less well-known yet equally pivotal examples of painting and sculptures. An anthology of texts drawn from the Museum's archives and publications accompanies the illustrations. These writings date from 1929 - an excerpt from the catalogue of the first loan exhibition, which featured the work of Cezanne, van Gogh, Gauguin, and Seurat - to 2002 - a test from the catalogue of a Gerhard Richter retrospective of that year. Spanning three quarters of a century, the explication of images reveals the fluctuating preferences and contingencies of history, while the diversity of voices range from the scholarly and art-historical to the poetic and personal. The result is a lively, diverse, and often surprising interpretation of a work of art."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0870707000 (cloth)
9780870707001 (cloth)
0870707019 (pbk.)
9780870707018 (pbk.)

Subject:

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Exhibitions.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Catalogs.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Expositions.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
New York <NY> / Museum of Modern Art.
Art, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Art New York (State) New York Exhibitions.
Art 20e siècle Expositions.
Peinture 20e siècle Expositions.
Sculpture 20e siècle Expositions.
Art New York (État) New York Expositions.
Art
Art, Modern
Malerei
Plastik
Schilderijen.
Plastieken.
Museum of Modern Art (N.Y.)
Kunstcollecties.
Kunstmusea.
Artes (século 20)
Exposições de arte (século 20) Estados unidos.
Peinture.
Sculpture.
20e siècle.
New York (State) New York
Houston <Tex., 2003>

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Elderfield, John.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 238491
Call No.: BIB 168358
Status: Available