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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
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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