Modern in the making : MoMA and the modern experiment, 1929-1949 /: MoMA and the modern experiment, 1929-1949. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Austin Porter, Sandra Zalman.
• Editors: Porter, Austin; Zalman, Sandra
• Contents: IntroductionEstablishing the Modern: MoMA and the Modern Experiment, Austin Porter (Kenyon College, USA) and Sandra Zalman (University of Houston, USA)Part I: Vernacular InfluencesChapter 1: Folk Surrealism, Marci Kwon (Stanford University, USA)Chapter 2: New Rugs by American Artists: Modernism, Abstraction, and Rug Design at MoMA, Jennifer Padget (Washington University, USA)Chapter 3: MoMA's Child Artists, John Blakinger (University of Southern California, USA)Chapter 4: 'Floor, Ceiling, Wall, Garden Market: The Curatorial Scene of Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art, Andy Campbell (University of Southern California, USA)Part II: New Mediums for a New Museum: Photography, Dance, Architecture and DesignChapter 5: Aesthetic versus the 'Mere Historic': Civil War and Frontier Photography at MoMA, Sarah Kate Gillespie (University of Georgia, USA)Chapter 6: An Exact Instant in the History of the Modern, Jason Hill (University of Delaware, USA)Chapter 7: Performance and the Dance Archives at the Museum of Modern Art, Swagato Chakravorty (Yale University, USA)Chapter 8: Architecture on Display: Breuer's House in the Museum Garden, Catarina Schlee Flaksman (Independent Scholar)Part III: Mobilizing ModernismChapter 9: Reproducing Art and the Museum: Ancestral Sources in and beyond the Museum of Modern Art, Rachel Kaplan (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA)Chapter 10: The 'Great Gallery' Goes to New York: Ancient American Rock Art, MOMA, and the New York Avant-Garde, James Farmer (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)Chapter 11: 'Toward a Happier and More Successful Life, ' or When Veterans Made, Art in the Modern Museum, Suzanne Hudson (University of Southern California, USA)Part IV: MoMA's Global VisionChapter 12: Occidental Arrangements: MoMA's Emerging Global History of Art at Midcentury, John Ott (James Madison University, USA)Chapter 13: ExhibitingItalianDemocracy inTwentiethCenturyItalianArt at the Museum of Modern Art, Antje Gamble (Murray State University, USA)Chapter 14: American Exceptionalism at the Modern, 1942-1959: Dorothy Miller's Americans, Angela Miller (Washington University, USA)BibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 708.1471; Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions; Art, Modern -- 20th century; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350186378; 9781350186361
• Related ISBNs: 9781350186354
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