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Art in Our Time. A Chronicle of The Museum of Modern Art
Door Harriet S. Bee e.a.
Categorie | Algemeen Kunst |
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Boeknummer | #211359 |
Titel | Art in Our Time. A Chronicle of The Museum of Modern Art |
Auteur | Bee, Harriet S. & Michelle Elligott |
Boektype | Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag |
Uitgeverij | The Museum of Modern Art, New York |
Jaar van uitgave | 2004 |
ISBN10 | 0870700014 |
ISBN13 | 9780870700019 |
Taal | Nederlands |
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 det... (Lees verder)ermined group of individuals who had the ability and courage to translate their vision into reality. |
Pagina's | 256 |
Conditie | Goed |
Prijs | € 20,00 |
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