Art in Our Time: A Chronicle of the Museum of Modern Art
- ISBN-10
- 0870700014
- ISBN-13
- 9780870700019
- Category
- Art / History / General
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- The Museum of Modern Art
- Authors
- Harriet Schoenholz Bee, Michelle Elligott
Description
"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 determined group of individuals who had the ability and courage to translate their vision into reality" -- OhioLink Library Catalog.
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