Published in 1955, this rare book from MoMA Publications is in excellent condition and available in extremely limited quantities. Each book from this special selection has been stored for decades. MoMA’s publications program has been an integral part of the Museum’s mission since its founding in 1929. These award-winning MoMA exhibition- and collection-related titles are…
Published in 1955, this rare book from MoMA Publications is in very good condition and available in extremely limited quantities. Each book from this special selection has been stored for decades. MoMA’s publications program has been an integral part of the Museum’s mission since its founding in 1929. These award-winning MoMA exhibition- and collection-related titles…
Published in 1958, this rare book from MoMA Publications is in very good condition and available in extremely limited quantities. Each book from this special selection has been stored for decades. MoMA’s publications program has been an integral part of the Museum’s mission since its founding in 1929. These award-winning MoMA exhibition- and collection-related titles…
Legend has it that when preparing props for the James Bond film Live and Let Die, producer Albert Broccoli commissioned Surrealist maestro Salvador Dalà to create a custom deck of tarot cards. Inspired by his wife Gala, who nurtured his interest in mysticism, Dalà eagerly got to work, and continued the project of his own…
Edited by Joshua Siegel and Marie-Christine de Navacelle. With contributions by Andrew Delbanco, David Denby, Pierre Legendre, Errol Morris, Jay Neugeboren, Marie-Christine de Navacelle, Geoffrey O’Brien, Christopher Ricks, Catherine Samie, Joshua Siegel, William T. Vollmann, and Frederick Wiseman  In a career that spans more than four decades, Frederick Wiseman has made nearly forty films…
To look inside this book, click here.  By Charles Silver  From 2009 to 2014, The Museum of Modern Art presented a weekly series of film screenings titled An Auteurist History of Film. Inspired by Andrew Sarris’s seminal book The American Cinema, which elaborated on the “auteur theory” first developed by the critics of…
To look inside this book, click here.  Edited by Cara Manes. With contributions by Alexander Calder, Cara Manes, and Alexander S. C. Rower  Alexander Calder’s work first appeared in The Museum of Modern Art’s galleries in 1930, in the exhibition Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans. Over the next decades the artist’s connection with…
Edited by Paola Antonelli. With contributions by Larry Keeley, Christopher Budd, John Thackara, Aura Oslapas, Kayoko Ota, Jim-hee Chang, Hui-Chi Chou, Rachaporn Couchouey, and Sarah Robins  In the past, work has shaped the way we live. In the near future, the way we live may shape the way we work. Workspheres: Design and Contemporary…
Edited by Paolo Herkenoff The concept of time has been discussed by philosphers through the ages. What is the nature of time? How does one depict time? These are questions that artists especially have struggled with, as time’s ephemeral quality makes it especially difficult to represent. Tempo, one of the first exhibitions to be held…
To look inside this book, click here.  Edited by Peter Eleey. With contributions by Peter Eleey and Michael Lobel  Starting in 1964, Sturtevant (1924–2014) used some of the most iconic artworks of her generation as sources and catalysts to explore originality and authorship. Beginning with her versions of works by Jasper Johns and…
To look inside this book, click here.  Edited by Eva Respini. With a contribution by Jennifer Jae Guttierez  Robert Heinecken (1931–2006) was a pioneer of the postwar Los Angeles art scene who described himself as a “para-photographer” because his work stood beside or beyond traditional ideas of the medium. Published in conjunction with…
Edited by David Velasco. With contributions by Kathy Halbreich, Gia Kourlas, Ralph Lemon, Debra Singer, Claude Wampler, and Greg Zuccolo  Sarah Michelson is an extraordinary choreographer. Never comfortable with success or the easy way out, she pushes questions to the wall, most recently with her Devotion series (2012–), which transmutes the very history of…
Series edited by John Elderfield. With contributions by Mirka BeneÅ¡, Kirk Varnedoe, Peter Reed, and Terence Riley  This sixth volume in the Studies in Modern Art series focuses on the architect Philip Johnson and his long association with The Museum of Modern Art. Essays examine his roles as patron, as curator, and as the…
Edited by Eva Orbanz. With contributions by Mary Lea Bandy, Hans Helmut Prinzler, Helen van Dongen, Richard Barsam, and Ronald S. Magliozzi  This book details the production of Robert Flaherty’s most beautiful and most ambitious film, Louisiana Story. At its core are the production diaries of Helen van Dongen, associate producer and editor for…
Edited by Glória Ferreira and Paulo Herkenhoff. With translations by Stephen Berg  This latest volume in MoMA’s Primary Documents Series provides an anthology of the writings of Mário Pedrosa, Brazil’s preeminent critic of art, culture, and politics and one of Latin America’s most frequently cited public intellectuals. It is the first publication to provide…
To look inside this book, click here.  By Maira Kalman, and Daniel Handler  Hurry Up and Wait, the second volume in a series of collaborations between the artist Maira Kalman, the writer Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket), and The Museum of Modern Art, shows people striding forth, dashing across streets, and jumping over…