Modern Art Despite Modernism - Hardcover
A Museum of Modern Art Book Throughout the 20th century, the evolution of mainstream modernism in the arts has been shadowed and complicated by alternative expressions, intended either to set back the clock or to redirect the stream of "progress." This book, published in conjunction with the second of three cycles of millennial exhibitions (MoMA2000) at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, explores the anti-modernist impulse as exhibited in painting and sculpture through the social, political, and cultural conflicts of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.
Curator Robert Storr reminds the reader of the strengths of some of this work-by Otto Dix, Lucien Freud, Francesco Clemente, and even Pablo Picasso-and of the enduring popularity of such artists as Pavel Tchelitchew, whose Hide and Seek, along with Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World, are among the public's favorite pictures. Storr also discusses taste and vulgarity and their implications, both past and present, for institutions like The Museum of Modern Art that are thought of as canon-builders.
More than 200 illustrations in full color, 9 x 12"
ROBERT STORR is curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. His previous books, also available from Abrams, include Tony Smith and Chuck Close.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE The Museum of Modern Art, New YorkMar. 15-Sept. 6, 2000
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Robert Storr is Senior Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture of The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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- PublisherMuseum of Modern Art / Harry N. Abrams
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0810962071
- ISBN 13 9780810962071
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages247
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: VG/VG. 1st ed. Azure cloth, azure & pictorial dust jacket with mylar cover, 248 pp., 172 color & 26 BW illus. "This book, published in conjunction with an exhibition drawn from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, explores the antimodernist impulse and, in so doing, presents a new vision of the complexities of modern art. In an in-depth study, Robert Storr, Senior Curator in the Museum's Department of Painting and Sculpture, traces the development of what he calls the anti-avant-garde, from its first appearance as the widespread "return to order" in European art after World War I through the reemergence of figuration in international work of the 1980s." "Storr discusses the social, political, and historical forces affecting paintings, sculpture, drawings, and prints, along with the influence of such major figures as Pablo Picasso, Otto Dix, and Philip Guston on the ascendancy of classicizing, narrative, and so-called traditional art at various times in the twentieth century. The fact that artists often crossed the boundary between modernism and the anti-avant garde - and that their aesthetic choices were not necessarily aligned with their political views - may surprise readers. Storr also looks at changing notions of taste and the reception of avant-garde art in the United States, a process in which The Museum of Modern Art played a key role."--Jacket. Seller Inventory # 135587
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