What is Modern Painting? - Museum of Modern Art - 1943
The famed director of MoMA introduced Modern Art to a readership with little previous experience of the subject. Barr discusses the major movments of the 20th century without delivering a fully historical account, yet delivers a very personal, almost polemical manifesto of Modernism for an uninitiated audience. [Lucas p 71. ]
Part of Introductory Series to the Modern Arts 2; chapters and illustrations include the Constructors, Realism, Impressionism, Expressionism, Contrasts, Motion and Commotion, Mystery and Magic, Allegory and Prophecy.
Includes work by Matisse, Stuart Davis, Clemente Orozco, Winslow Homer, Ben Shahn, Edward Hopper, Charles Sheeler, Grant Wood, William Gropper, John Kane, Auguste Renoir, Pierre Bonnard, Vincent Van Gogh, John Marin, Max Beckmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Piet Mondrian, Fernand Leger, Georges Braque, Charles Burchfeld, Henri Rousseau, Georgio De Chirico, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Paul Klee, Peter Blume, and others.
7.5 x 10 softcover book with 44 pages and 51 black and white illustrations. Slim quarto. Printed thick and sewn wrappers. Light wear to spine. Previous owner's bookplate and name (in pen) on ffep. George Monell was a renowned architect from Gloucester, MA. Light foxing to page edges, but images and text are crisp and clear.The famed director of MoMA introduced Modern Art to a readership with little previous experience of the subject. Barr discusses the major movments of the 20th century without delivering a fully historical account, yet delivers a very personal, almost polemical manifesto of Modernism for an uninitiated audience. [Lucas p 71. ]
Part of Introductory Series to the Modern Arts 2; chapters and illustrations include the Constructors, Realism, Impressionism, Expressionism, Contrasts, Motion and Commotion, Mystery and Magic, Allegory and Prophecy.
Includes work by Matisse, Stuart Davis, Clemente Orozco, Winslow Homer, Ben Shahn, Edward Hopper, Charles Sheeler, Grant Wood, William Gropper, John Kane, Auguste Renoir, Pierre Bonnard, Vincent Van Gogh, John Marin, Max Beckmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Piet Mondrian, Fernand Leger, Georges Braque, Charles Burchfeld, Henri Rousseau, Georgio De Chirico, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Paul Klee, Peter Blume, and others.
7.5 x 10 softcover book with 44 pages and 51 black and white illustrations. Slim quarto. Printed thick and sewn wrappers. Light wear to spine. Previous owner's bookplate and name (in pen) on ffep. George Monell was a renowned architect from Gloucester, MA. Light foxing to page edges, but images and text are crisp and clear.The famed director of MoMA introduced Modern Art to a readership with little previous experience of the subject. Barr discusses the major movments of the 20th century without delivering a fully historical account, yet delivers a very personal, almost polemical manifesto of Modernism for an uninitiated audience. [Lucas p 71. ]
Part of Introductory Series to the Modern Arts 2; chapters and illustrations include the Constructors, Realism, Impressionism, Expressionism, Contrasts, Motion and Commotion, Mystery and Magic, Allegory and Prophecy.
Includes work by Matisse, Stuart Davis, Clemente Orozco, Winslow Homer, Ben Shahn, Edward Hopper, Charles Sheeler, Grant Wood, William Gropper, John Kane, Auguste Renoir, Pierre Bonnard, Vincent Van Gogh, John Marin, Max Beckmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Piet Mondrian, Fernand Leger, Georges Braque, Charles Burchfeld, Henri Rousseau, Georgio De Chirico, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Paul Klee, Peter Blume, and others.
7.5 x 10 softcover book with 44 pages and 51 black and white illustrations. Slim quarto. Printed thick and sewn wrappers. Light wear to spine. Previous owner's bookplate and name (in pen) on ffep. George Monell was a renowned architect from Gloucester, MA. Light foxing to page edges, but images and text are crisp and clear.