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Mumford on modern art in the 1930s / edited and with an introduction by Robert Wojtowicz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Modern--20th century.
- Art, Modern.
- Art criticism--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Art criticism.
- New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925).
- History.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 265 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- "Superbly crafted little essays, Lewis Mumford's "New Yorker" pieces called 'The Art Galleries' well deserve this handsome republication. They offer supremely tasteful guided tours of the galleries and museums of Manhattan at the time when the canon of Western art, including modernism, was being secured, against a background of tension between abstraction and realism and between aestheticism and social commitment. The essays are a gift for our own troubled times from one of the great humane and versatile critics of the twentieth century; they offer the reassurance of urbanity, poise, and commitment to art as a primary social necessity."--Alan Trachtenberg, Neil Grey Emeritus Professor of English, Yale University
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- "Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint"--P. [i].
- Selection of articles originally published in the New Yorker, 1932-1937.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- ISBN:
- 9780520933132
- 0520933133
- Publisher Number:
- 99955332468
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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