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Lincoln Kirstein's modern / Samantha Friedman, Jodi Hauptman ; with contributions by Samantha Friedamen, Lynn Garafola, Michele Greet, Michelle Harvey, Richard Meyer, and Kevin Moore.

Fine Arts Library BH301.M54 F745 2019
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Friedman, Samantha, author, curator.
Hauptman, Jodi, author, curator.
Contributor:
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.
Harvey, Michelle, 1954- writer of chronology.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.).
Modernism (Aesthetics)--New York (State)--New York--Exhibitions.
Modernism (Aesthetics).
Art museums--Acquisitions--New York (State)--New York--Exhibitions.
Art museums.
Dance in art--20th century--Exhibitions.
Dance in art.
Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996--Influence--Exhibitions.
Kirstein, Lincoln.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)--History--Exhibitions.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)--Employees--Exhibitions.
Employees.
History.
Art museums--Acquisitions.
New York (State)--New York.
Genre:
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:
207 pages : color illustrations ; 28 x 24 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Museum of Modern Art [2019]
Summary:
Lincoln Kirstein was a polymathic writer, critic, curator and impresario: a key connector and an indefatigable catalyst whose sweeping contributions to American cultural life in the 1930s and 1940s shaped artists and institutions. Best known for cofounding the New York City Ballet, he is also a crucial figure in the Museum of Modern Art's early history. He championed photography and figurative art; established the Museum's short-lived Dance Archives and curatorial department of Dance and Theater Design; acquired a significant trove of Latin American art for the collection; and contributed an alternative vision to a museum known for its devotion to abstraction. Published in conjunction with an exhibition devoted to Kirstein's expansive view of modern art, this volume also explores his wide-ranging and overlapping professional and social networks in New York City and beyond. The richly illustrated book features paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs and costume and set designs by artists including Antonio Berni, Paul Cadmus, Walker Evans, Raquel Forner, Jared French, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Gaston Lachaise, George Platt Lynes, Elie Nadelman, Ben Shahn, Honoré Sharrer, Pavel Tchelitchew and Joaquín Torres-García-- Kevin Moore website http://www.fultonstreet.us/lincoln-k/4594530462 (viewed on April 22, 2019)
Contents:
Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry
Introduction / Samantha Friedman
Lincoln Kirstein: man of the people / Lynn Garafola
Our ballet and our audience / Lincoln Kirstein
Emulson society: Lincoln Kirstein and photography / Kevin Moore
Photography in the United States / Lincoln Kirstein
Threesomes: Lincoln Kirstein's queer arithmetic / Richard Meyer
Introduction to American realists and magic realists / Lincoln Kirstein
Looking south: Lincoln Kirstein and Latin American art / Michele Greet
South American painting / Lincoln Kirstein
The state of modern painting / Lincoln Kirstein
Chronology / Michelle Harvey.
Notes:
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Lincoln Kirstein's Modern, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 17-June 15, 2019."-- colophon
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781633450820
1633450821
OCLC:
1086332313
Publisher Number:
MoMA 2414

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