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Modern Art Despite Modernism Hardcover - 2000

by Robert Storr


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Throughout the 20th century, the evolution of mainstream modernism in the arts has been shadowed and complicated by alternative expressions, intended either to set back the clock or to redirect the stream of "progress". This book, published in conjunction with the second of three cycles of millennial exhibitions (MoMA2000) at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, explores the anti-modernist impulse as exhibited in painting and sculpture through the social, political, and cultural conflicts of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

Curator Robert Storr reminds the reader of the strengths of some of this work -- by Otto Dix, Lucien Freud, Francesco Clemente, and even Pablo Picasso -- and of the enduring popularity of such artists as Pavel Tchelitchew, whose Hide and Seek, along with Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World, are among the public's favorite pictures. Storr also discusses taste and vulgarity and their implications, both past and present, for institutions like The Museum of Modern Art that are thought of as canon-builders.

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  • Title Modern Art Despite Modernism
  • Author Robert Storr
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition (First edition)
  • Pages 247
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher ABRAMS, New York
  • Date 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780810962071 / 0810962071
  • Weight 3.66 lbs (1.66 kg)
  • Dimensions 12.2 x 9.31 x 1.1 in (30.99 x 23.65 x 2.79 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00130299
  • Dewey Decimal Code 709.04
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New York: Museum of Modern Art / Harry N. Abrams, 2000. 1st ed. Hardcover. VG/VG. Azure cloth, azure & pictorial dust jacket with mylar cover, 248 pp., 172 color & 26 BW illus. "This book, published in conjunction with an exhibition drawn from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, explores the antimodernist impulse and, in so doing, presents a new vision of the complexities of modern art. In an in-depth study, Robert Storr, Senior Curator in the Museum's Department of Painting and Sculpture, traces the development of what he calls the anti-avant-garde, from its first appearance as the widespread "return to order" in European art after World War I through the reemergence of figuration in international work of the 1980s." "Storr discusses the social, political, and historical forces affecting paintings, sculpture, drawings, and prints, along with the influence of such major figures as Pablo Picasso, Otto Dix, and Philip Guston on the ascendancy of classicizing, narrative, and so-called… Read More
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The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2000. Book. Fine Condition. Cloth. 248 pp., 198 illustrations 172 in full color. First edition. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY March 16-July 26, 2000. Foreword by Glenn D. Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art. Includes index of illustrations and acknowledgments. Dustjacket is protected with a mylar cover..
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