Introduction by Glenn D. Lowry MoMA Highlights is an expanded and redesigned edition that presents a new selection from the Museum’s unparalleled collection of modern and contemporary art. Among the 375 works represented (each with a vibrant image and an informative text), 170 objects and 120 artists make their first appearance in Highlights, reflecting…
Introduction by Glenn D. Lowry MoMA Highlights is an expanded and redesigned edition that presents a new selection from the Museum’s unparalleled collection of modern and contemporary art. Among the 375 works represented (each with a vibrant image and an informative text), 170 objects and 120 artists make their first appearance in Highlights, reflecting…
Introduction by Glenn D. Lowry MoMA Highlights is an expanded and redesigned edition that presents a new selection from the Museum’s unparalleled collection of modern and contemporary art. Among the 375 works represented (each with a vibrant image and an informative text), 170 objects and 120 artists make their first appearance in Highlights, reflecting…
Introduction by Glenn D. Lowry MoMA Highlights is an expanded and redesigned edition that presents a new selection from the Museum’s unparalleled collection of modern and contemporary art. Among the 375 works represented (each with a vibrant image and an informative text), 170 objects and 120 artists make their first appearance in Highlights, reflecting…
By Carolyn Lanchner Paul Cézanne died in 1906, only six years into the twentieth century, but he is widely considered the founding figure of modernist painting, the artist whom Pablo Picasso called “the father of us all.” This new volume in the MoMA artist series guides readers through ten memorable works by Cézanne in…
To look inside this book, click here. By Jodi Roberts In Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair Frida Kahlo’s usual lively and saturated palette is supplanted by neutral hues, her Tehuana dress by an ill-fitting man’s suit, and her plaited hair by strangely sentient locks that wriggle up from the floor and around her chair….
By James Oles Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and José Clemente Orozco were the most prominent figures in the revival of mural painting that brought Mexican art to world renown following the Revolution of 1910–20. This volume explores ten important paintings by these artists, selected from The Museum of Modern Art’s pioneering collection of…
To look inside this book, click here. By Carolyn Lanchner Joan Miró, one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists and perhaps the finest painter to be associated with Surrealism, created a pictorial world of immense imaginative power. This book features ten paintings and sculptures by Miró selected from The Museum of Modern Art’s…
Created by Edward Steichen, with a prologue by Carl Sandburg Hailed as the most successful exhibition of photography ever assembled, The Family of Man opened at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in January 1955. Originally published in that same year, this classic and inspiring book is the permanent embodiment of Edward Steichen’s…
Edited by Barry Bergdoll and Reinhold Martin. With contributions by Henry N. Cobb, Barry Bergdoll, Reinhold Martin, Leah Meisterlin, Anna Kenoff, Michael Sorkin, and Shaun Donovan Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream is an exploration of new architectural possibilities for American cities and suburbs in the aftermath of the recent foreclosure crisis in the United…
To look inside this book, click here. Essay by Lincoln Kirstein Walker Evans: American Photographs was first published by The Museum of Modern Art in 1938 in a carefully prepared, deluxe letterpress edition to accompany an exhibition of photographs by Evans that captured scenes of the United States in the early 1930s. …
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Joseph Elmer Yoakum (1890–1972) started drawing late in life and produced some 2,000 works on paper, primarily landscapes and select portraits, over just ten years. This beautifully illustrated monograph offers the most comprehensive study of the artist’s work, illuminating his vivid and imaginative world of drawings and giving definition and dimension to his remarkable life….
By Beverly Adams In 1923 the Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral declared, “I want to be the painter of my country.” Galvanized by the new styles of painting then revolutionizing European art and by the nationalist drive of her circle of innovative artists and poets in São Paulo, Amaral set out to craft a…
To look inside this book, click here. By Maira Kalman and Daniel Handler Poetic and thought-provoking, Girls Standing on Lawns reflects the creators’ shared fascination with anonymous snapshots and the rich lives, memories, and stories they evoke. It is a meditation on childhood, home, family, and the act of seeing—girls, women, friends, families,…
By Esther Adler In 1969 Betye Saar created Black Girl’s Window, assembling found images and fragments of her own prints into a discarded frame. At center, an arresting painted image of a girl confronts the viewer through parted curtains, her hands pressed against a pane of glass. For Black Girl’s Window, which bridges Saar’s…
By Ann Temkin Henri Rousseau was a singular figure in the early-twentieth-century avant-garde, a self-taught painter who turned to art after retiring as a customs inspector at the age of forty-nine. Although he never left Paris, Rousseau painted a number of jungle scenes, drawing on images of the exotic as presented to the urban dweller…