Essay by John Szarkowski In 1976, William Eggleston’s Guide was the first one-man show of color photographs ever presented at The Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum’s first publication of color photography. The reception was divided and passionate. The book and show unabashedly forced the art world to deal with color photography, a…
To look inside this book, click here. By Sarah Hermanson Meister The United States was in the pall of the Great Depression when Dorothea Lange began documenting its effects with stirring photographs of human hardship. By 1935 she was working for one of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal agencies, the Resettlement Administration (later…
By John Szarkowski The Photographer’s Eye is a 20th-century classic and an indispensable introduction to the visual language of photography. Based on a landmark exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in 1964, and originally published in 1966, the book has long been out of print. It is now available again to a new…
Edited by Anne Umland and Adrian Sudhalter. With contributions by Scott Gerson Dada in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art features some seventy works in various mediums—including books, collages, drawings, films, paintings, photomontages, prints, and reliefs—presented in large-scale reproductions and accompanied by in depth, object-focused entries by an interdepartmental group of the…
Modern Artifacts includes all 18 installments of the series, copresented with Esopus and the Museum of Modern Art Archives, that originally appeared in Esopus, the award-winning nonprofit arts annual that suspended publication in 2018.Each of these installments focuses on a particular part of the MoMA Archives—subjects include the museum’s first guest book, its “Art Lending Service” program, activities…
Edited with text by Peter Eleey, Robyn Farrell, Michael Govan, Rebecca Morse, James Rondeau. Foreword by Michael Govan, Glenn D. Lowry, James Rondeau. Essay by Zoé Whitley. Since the mid-1970s, Barbara Kruger (born 1945) has been interrogating the hierarchies of power and control in works that often combine visual and written language. In her…
Created as a tribute to Mexican surrealist artist Frida Kahlo, this outstanding tarot card deck features unique portraits of this beloved painter in addition to beautiful imagery that is perfect for readers and collectors. Representing the spirit of strength and avant-garde charisma, the Frida Kahlo Tarot Cards Deck speaks to the emotions and feelings common…
Edited By Paola Antonelli. With contributions by Paola Antonelli, Susan Yelavich, Phil Patton, Marie O’Mahony, and Cameron Sinclair A companion to the exhibition exhibition, SAFE: Design Takes On Risk, this book presents a wealth of contemporary design products and prototypes from all over the world that address the issues of protection and security in…
In Japan, Kenji Kawakami is famous for his tireless promotion of Chindogu: the art of the unuseless idea. Kawakami has developed an entire philosophy around these bizarre and logic-defying gadgets and gizmos, which must work but are actually entirely impractical. Created in the spirit of anarchy, unuseless inventions are not allowed to be patented or…
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Edited by Rajendra Roy and Anke Leweke. With contributions by Thomas Arslan, Valeska Grisebach, Benjamin Heisenberg, Christoph Hochhäusler, Nina Hoss, Dennis Lim, Katja Nicodemus, Christian Petzold, and Rainer Rother The informal movement that critics like to call the Berlin School, as director Christoph Hochhäusler puts it, is a loose affiliation of filmmakers who emerged…
Introduction by John Elderfield. Interview by Ann Temkin This catalogue accompanies an exhibition of paintings, sculpture, drawings, and prints from Edward R. Broida’s gift to the Museum of 175 contemporary works from his collection. These works reflect a wide range of artistic approaches, and were created largely after 1960. Several artists, such as Vija…
Edited by Terence Riley This publication features 53 current architectural projects throughout Spain, a country that in recent years has become known as an international center for design innovation and excellence. The projects, all of which were in construction as of this book’s 2006 publication, reflect diversity in geography and in the architects who…
To look inside this book, click here. By Klaas Verplancke A man named René floats through the world of his dreams and imagination, fulfilling his desire to become a painter—of apples and hats, apple hats, apple-these and apple-thats. In his paintings, leaves are lips, baguettes are noses, the right side is never up, and…
To look inside this book, click here. Edited by Corinne Bélier, Barry Bergdoll, and Marc le Coeur. With contributions by Martin Bressani, Marc Grignon, Marie-Hélène de La Mure, Neil Levine, Bertrand Lemoine, Sigrid de Jong, David Van Zanten, and Gérard Uniack Henri Labrouste is one of the few nineteenth-century architects who have been…
To look inside this book, click here. Winner of the Dedalus Foundation’s 2015 Exhibition Catalogue Award Edited by Karl Buchberg, Nicholas Cullinan, Jodi Hauptman, and Nicholas Serota. With contributions by Karl Buchberg, Nicholas Cullinan, Samantha Friedman, Flavia Frigeri, Markus Gross, Jodi Hauptman, Stephan Lohrengel, and Nicholas Serota Published in conjunction with the…
Contributions by Klaus Biesenbach, Peter Eleey, and Doug Aitken Dusk falls on a cold winter evening, and five characters awaken and dress and make their way out into nighttime New York City. In Doug Aitken’s sleepwalkers, these characters provide a blueprint for the city—a living, breathing mechanism fueled by the desires and ambitions of…