Multiple modernities, 1905-1970
Subtitle: from the collections of the National Museum of Modern Art
By: edited by Catherine Grenier ; [exhibition head curator, Catherine Grenier] ; [[essays by] Catherine Grenier, and 16 others] ; [preface, Alfred Pacquement]
Contributors: Centre Georges Pompidou
Publisher: Centre Pompidou
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Paris, France
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9782844266538
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Catalogs; Art collections; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Exhibitions; Modernism (Art); Modernisme (Art); Expositions; Art museums; Musée national d'art moderne (France)
Description: "Multiple Modernities posits a renewed and enlarged vision of modern art. For the first time, the Centre Pompidou delves into the riches of its collections to present a global history of art. Taking into account not only the various countries of the world, but also the multiplicity of artists and aesthetics, this history transports us into the heart of the exceptional diversity of artistic forms created between 1905 and 1970. The contributing authors, curators, and scholars, uncover the major movements of multiple avant-gardes within the networks of exchanges and emulations characterstic of this period, with its profusion of inventions and re-examinations. They analyse the complex and dynamic relationship between universality and vernacular culture, purity and hybridity, extending throughout the adventure of modern art. Revealing the intersections and fusions of different arts, they also demonstrate the interaction of modern art with traditional practices and extra-artistic expression."
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Oct. 23, 2013-Jan. 26, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / -- Alain Seban -- Preface / -- Alfred Pacquement; title: Upside-down world?  -- Catherine Grenier; title: Brief history of modernism  -- Michel Gauthier; title: Conceptualizing the world : the Mundaneum project  -- Stéphanie Dadour; title: Grids and networks : the role of magazines in the construction of the modern art world  -- Mica Gherghescu; title: Der Blaue Reiter almanach : beyond divisions  -- Angela Lampe; title: At the crossroads of art, practice and theory : the Kahnweiler-Leiris collection  -- Cécile Debray; title: Multiple realisms  -- Catherine Grenier; title: Multiple modernities in Japan and China  -- Jacques Giès; title: Building a Mediterranean heritage : the role of architectural reviews  -- Anne-Marie Zuchelli; title: Totemism  -- Philippe Dagen; title: Modern architecture in Brazil : a history being written  -- Valentina Moimas; title: African modernities  -- Audrey Coudre; title: Modernities in the Middle East : under the sign of artistic plurality  -- Fanny Drugeon; title: Kineticists of planet Earth!  -- Marion Guibert; title: India : the age of cities  -- Aurélien Lemonier; title: Planet concept  -- Michel Gauthier; title: Moving gaze  -- Clément Chéroux; title: Decolonialising the gaze?  -- Sophie Orlando; title: Chronology : history of the collections -- Nathalie Ernoult.