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Visions of modern art : painting and sculpture from The Museum of Modern Art / edited by John Elderfield.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Museum of Modern Art, c2003.Description: 352 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 31 cmISBN:
  • 0870707000
  • 0870707019 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • N6487.N4 M878 2003
Contents:
Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry. The Front Door of Understanding / John Elderfield. PART 1. Modern Starts: Post-Impressionism ; Symbolism ; Fauvism ; Later Symbolist Currents. PART 2. Matisse ; Picasso. PART 3. Cubism and Abstract Art: Cubism ; Futurism ; Brancusi ; Russia and the Bauhaus ; De Stijl ; Four Abstract Artists ; Four American Modernists. PART 4. Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism: New York Dada ; Two Fantasts ; Surealist Dream Images ; Abstract Surrealism ; Surrealist Sculpture. PART 5. New Images of Man: Early Figurative Sculpture ; Figurative Painting Between the Wars. PART 6.The New American Painting: Gorky and de Kooning ; Abstract Expressionist Field Painting ; Abstract Expressionism: Image and Gesture ; After Abstract Expressionism ; Proto-Pop Art ; Geometric Abstraction. PART 7. The Art of the Real: Pop Art ; Abstract and Minimalist Painting ; Minimalist Sculpture ; Post (and non)-Minimalism. PART 8. Open Ends: Guston ; Richter ; Gonzalez-Torres ; Cai. Notes to the Texts. Selected Bibliography. Chronology.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks N6487 .N4 M878 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000711415

Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Heroic Century: The Museum of Modern Art Masterpieces, 200 Paintings and Sculptures held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Tex., Sept. 21, 2003-Jan. 4, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 330-333) and index.

Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry. The Front Door of Understanding / John Elderfield. PART 1. Modern Starts: Post-Impressionism ; Symbolism ; Fauvism ; Later Symbolist Currents. PART 2. Matisse ; Picasso. PART 3. Cubism and Abstract Art: Cubism ; Futurism ; Brancusi ; Russia and the Bauhaus ; De Stijl ; Four Abstract Artists ; Four American Modernists. PART 4. Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism: New York Dada ; Two Fantasts ; Surealist Dream Images ; Abstract Surrealism ; Surrealist Sculpture. PART 5. New Images of Man: Early Figurative Sculpture ; Figurative Painting Between the Wars. PART 6.The New American Painting: Gorky and de Kooning ; Abstract Expressionist Field Painting ; Abstract Expressionism: Image and Gesture ; After Abstract Expressionism ; Proto-Pop Art ; Geometric Abstraction. PART 7. The Art of the Real: Pop Art ; Abstract and Minimalist Painting ; Minimalist Sculpture ; Post (and non)-Minimalism. PART 8. Open Ends: Guston ; Richter ; Gonzalez-Torres ; Cai. Notes to the Texts. Selected Bibliography. Chronology.

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