Title: Modern painting and sculpture : 1880 to the present at the Museum of Modern Art /
Authors: Elderfield, John; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Catalogs.; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) History Chronology.; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.); Art, Modern Catalogs; Art, Modern Catalogs; Painting New York (State) New York.; Sculpture New York (State) New York.; Painting, Modern.; Sculpture, Modern.
Abstract: Modern pioneers - Matisse - Picasso - Modernism - Art in Europe trough to World War I - Modernism between the two World Wars - Transatlantic modern - Art of the real - Pop Art - Minimalist painting and sculpture - Contemporary Art - Modern art since 1970.
Contents: 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.