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ModernStarts : people, places, things / edited by John Elderfield ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.).
- Art, Modern--19th century--Exhibitions.
- Art, Modern.
- Art, Modern--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)--Exhibitions.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 360 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
- Other Title:
- Modern starts
- People, places, things
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1999.
- Summary:
- Abandoning customary labels and chronological ordering, ModernStarts offers fresh thinking about works of art. People treats the great period of early modern figurative art from Matisse, Rodin, and Munch; Places features landscapes and cityscapes by such artists as Atget, Cezanne, de Chirico, and Leger; and Things addresses object-like works, from Rietveld's and Wright's chairs to Duchamp's Readymades and Brancusi's sculpture. All works illustrated are from the collections of New York's Museum of Modern Art.
- Notes:
- "Published in conjunction with the new exhibition ModernStarts: people, places, things at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 7, 1999-March 14, 2000, organized by John Elderfield ..."--T.p. verso.
- The exhibition is part of three cycles of exhibitions known as MoMA2000.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-355) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0870700251
- 0870700243
- 0810962039
- OCLC:
- 44173254
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