Visions of modern art
Subtitle: painting and sculpture from the Museum of Modern Art
By: edited by John Elderfield.
Contributors: Elderfield, John.; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Exhibitions; Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions; Art -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 330-333) and index.
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.
Table of contents: title: [Exhibitions surveyed]: Modern starts (1999-2000); title: Matisse Picasso (2002); title: Cubism and abstract art (1936); title: Fantastic art, Dada, Surrealism (1936); title: New images of man (1959); title: The new American painting (1958-1959); title: The art of the real (1968); title: Open ends (2000-2001).