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Art In Our Time: A Chronicle of the Museum of Modern Art

Door Glenn D. Lowry

Categorie
Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer
#336126-WB10
Titel
Art In Our Time: A Chronicle of the Museum of Modern Art
Auteur
Lowry, Glenn D.
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New York : The Museum of Modern Art
Jaar van uitgave
2004
ISBN10
0870700014
ISBN13
9780870700019
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original blind stamped orange cloth, dust jacket, numerous (full page) colour and b/w illustrations, (including photographs), 4to.
Samenvatting

This volume chronicles the Museum's story from its opening, ten days after the stock market crash of 1929, in a few rented rooms in a midtown office building, up to the present day, in its new building on West Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth streets. The book presents a pictorial and documentary review of each year, and each important period, of the Museum's history. It tells the story of how The Museum of Modern Art, New York, began as a small set of art galleries inaugurated by three ladies of means who had a passion for modern art. Through a selection of photographs, official documents, letters, quotations, newspaper clippings, cartoons, and other ephemera, the complex and multilayered history of the Museum unfolds in a visual march through time, revealing the extraordinary vision of a d
... (Lees verder)etermined group of individuals who had the ability and courage to translate their vision into reality.
Pagina's
256
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 15,00

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