Art in our time
Subtitle: a chronicle of the Museum of Modern Art
By: edited by Harriet S. Bee and Michelle Elligott.
Contributors: Bee, Harriet Schoenholz.; Elligott, Michelle.
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art; The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Chronology; Art -- New York (State) -- New York
Other titles: Chronicle of the Museum of Modern Art
Description: "This volume chronicles the Museum's story from its opening, ten days after the stock market crash of 1929, in a few rented rooms in a midtown office building, up to the present day, in its new building on West Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth streets. The book presents a pictorial and documentary review of each year, and each important period, of the Museum's history. It tells the story of how The Museum of Modern Art, New York, began as a small set of art galleries inaugurated by three ladies of means who had a passion for modern art. Through a selection of photographs, official documents, letters, quotations, newspaper clippings, cartoons, and other ephemera, the complex and multilayered history of the Museum unfolds in a visual march through time, revealing the extraordinary vision of a determined group of individuals who had the ability and courage to translate their vision into reality."--BOOK JACKET.