Main entry:

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

Title & Author:

Modern painting and sculpture : 1880 to the present at the Museum of Modern Art / edited by John Elderfield.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Museum of Modern Art, [2004]
©2004

Description:

536 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, plans ; 31 cm

Notes:
"Published on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Museum of Modern Art and the opening of its new building"--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 506-520) and index.
The front door to understanding / John Elderfield -- Texts and plates -- Modern pioneers: from 1880 into the twentieth century -- Matisse, Picasso, Modernism: art in Europe through World War I -- Fauvism, Symbolism, Expressionism -- Picasso and Cubism -- Futurism -- Matisse -- Crosscurrents -- Age of "isms": Modernisms between the two world wars -- Dada -- Suprematism and Constructivism -- Mondrian and de Stijl -- Realisms -- Surrealism -- Transatlantic modern: Europe, America -- Abstraction and figuration -- Abstract Expressionism -- After Abstract Expressionism -- Crosscurrents -- Art of the real: pop, minimal, 1960s -- Pop art -- Abstract and Minimalist painting and sculpture -- After Minimalism -- Untitled (contemporary): modern art since 1970.

Summary:

New York's Museum of Modern Art, which dates from 1929, has helped to bring the history of modern art to vivid life through its unparalleled collection of late-nineteenth and twentieth-century painting and sculpture. A veritable who's who of modern art is represented in the Museum's collection: Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brancusi, Salvador Dali, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Mark Rothko, Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock, to name but a few. Its new building, which opened in 2004, had added dramatic and exciting spaces in which to display the works of these and other artists. This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the Museum's painting and sculpture collection, through more than three hundred color plates and texts drawn from the Museum's archives and publications. These lively, diverse, and often surprising interpretations of a work of art, sometime from the artists themselves, both enrich and expand the literature on the history of modern art. Accompanying these texts is an introduction by John Elderfield, Chief Curator of the Department of Painting and Sculpture, which offers a personal account of the collection's history and its installations." -- Book jacket

ISBN:

0870705768 (hbk.)
9780870705762 (hbk.)
0870705776 (pbk.)
9780870705779 (pbk.)

Subject:

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Catalogues.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Histoire Chronologie.
Painting New York (State) New York.
Sculpture New York (State) New York.
Painting, Modern.
Sculpture, Modern.
Art 20e siècle Catalogues.
Art 21e siècle Catalogues.
Peinture New York (État) New York.
Sculpture New York (État) New York.
Sculpture première.
Painting
Sculpture
New York (State) New York

Form/genre:

catalogs (documents)
Catalogs
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Elderfield, John, editor.

1880 to the present at the Museum of Modern Art

Holdings:

Location: Library main 245975
Call No.: BIB 175585
Status: Available