Published in 1948 and edited by James Thrall Soby, this rare book from MoMA Publications is available in extremely limited quantities. Each book from this special selection has been stored for decades in MoMA’s warehouse. MoMA’s award-winning publications program has been an integral part of the Museum’s mission since its founding in 1929. These exhibition-…
Caro was the first to create large sculptures that spread out along the ground, independent of base or pedestal. In creating these pieces, he broke with the “totemic” conventions of Western sculpture in which the work rises to confront the viewed. The book is not only a masterly introduction to Caro’s work, but also a…
Galassi argues that photography was born of this transformation in artistic support this argument the author has assembled forty-four innovative European paintings and drawings made in the half-century before the invention of the photography was announced in 1839. These works, landscaped by John Canstable, J.B.C Corot, and their contemporaries, show an impressive independence from earlier…
This book, published in conjunction with and exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, is the first comprehensive retrospective of Penn’s work. The essay by John Szarkowski follows a brilliant career, from its art-school beginnings to the provocative still lives of recent years, photographs of cigarette butts and street detritus-works if eloquence and classical rectitude,…
This book, published in conjunction with and exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, is the first comprehensive retrospective of Penn’s work. The essay by John Szarkowski follows a brilliant career, from its art-school beginnings to the provocative still lives of recent years, photographs of cigarette butts and street detritus-works if eloquence and classical rectitude,…
Published in 1990 and edited by Kirk Varnedoe and Adam Gopnik, this rare book from MoMA Publications is available in extremely limited quantities. Each book from this special selection has been stored for decades in MoMA’s warehouse. MoMA’s award-winning publications program has been an integral part of the Museum’s mission since its founding in 1929….
Featuring the work of 14 European painters and 8 European sculptors of the 1950s: Bazaine, Dubuffet, Hajdu, Manessier, Pignon, Richier, Soulages, Uhlmann, Werner, Winter, Armitage, Bacon, Butler, Chadwick, Scott, Afro, Burri, Capogrossi, Minguzzi, Mirko, Appel and Vieira da Silva. Includes a Catalogue of the Exhibition of the works of these artists that appeared at the…
Josef van Sternberg’s career and reputation from 1925 to the present are critically estimated in the first comprehensive survey of all the directors eighteen films. The extensive notes on each of the film provide incisive analyses of the elements that gravitated Sternberg’s individual artistic concepts from his first films and his glittering association with Marlene…
The Museum of Modern Art’s book, with an introduction by Lincoln Kirstein, brings to the public a group of long-forgotten photographs recording the activities of Negro and Indian students at the Hampton Institute in Virginia at the turn of the century. These photographs, originally made for the Paris Exposition of 1900 by Frances Benjamin Johnston…
Agee and Rose began with clues, leads, and intuitions. Working from a few documents and from interviews with friends and family, they have reconstructed Bruce’s life, his working methods, his approach to painting, and the sources of his ideas, and have proposed a chronology of the works, most of which are unsigned and undated. The…
These two volumes comprise the first comprehensive scholarly treatment in half a century of the crucial influence of the tribal arts–particularly those of Africa and Oceania–on modern painters and sculptors. In this visually stunning and intellectually provocative work, 19 essays confront complex aesthetic, art-historical, and sociological problems posed by this dramatic chapter in the history…
MoMA Exclusive: This adjustable cap, by New Era, a company that has been manufacturing baseball caps since the 1930s, is available in multiple colors, including an all-white version with sewn-in thread that glows in the dark. The cap features the New Era logo and the MLB (Major League Baseball) emblem. The New Era NY Yankees…
Essays on the two artists have been written by Ruth Olson and Abraham Chanin of th Museeum staff. In addition, the book of 84 pages will include 80 halftone plates and bibliography. 83 pp.; 80 illus. Published in 1948 and edited by intro by Herbert Read, text by Ruth Olson and Abraham Chanin, this rare…
Published in 1980 and edited by Riva Castleman, this rare book from MoMA Publications is available in extremely limited quantities. Each book from this special selection has been stored for decades in MoMA’s warehouse. MoMA’s award-winning publications program has been an integral part of the Museum’s mission since its founding in 1929. These exhibition- and…
This print features a reproduction of Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump (1982) by Jean-Michel Basquiat, an artist whose work is featured in MoMA’s collection. It’s framed in sustainably sourced black ash with a gallery acrylic finish. Wired for hanging.