Title: Visions of modern art
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.
Subjects: Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Art, Exhibitions, Painting, modern, 20th century, Sculpture, modern, 20th century, Modern Painting, Catalogs, Modern Sculpture
Places: New York, New York (State)
Time periods: 20th century