An Invitation To See: 150 Works from The Museum of Modern Art - Softcover

Franc, Helen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870703978 ISBN 13: 9780870703973

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002

Synopsis

From the many thousands of paintings, sculptures and constructions in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 150 outstanding examples have been chosen to indicate the quality and diversity of modern masters and movements from about 1885 to the early 1990s. A substantial revision of the original 1973 edition, this volume takes account of developments and Museum acquisitions in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Painters range from late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century pioneers of Modernism such as Degas, Cézanne, van Gogh and Seurat to late twentieth-century artists who challenge the very premises of Modernism itself. Sculptures vary from representations of the human figure by Rodin, Matisse and Moore, to an abstraction by Arp, a bird by Brancusi and a soft sculpture by Oldenburg. Among the constructions are works by Picasso, Calder and David Smith. This handsome and highly readable guide is accompanied by commentaries on each work, with quotations from the artists themselves and from the writings of distinguished critics.

About this title

About the Author:

Helen Franc, a writer and editor, holds degrees in fine arts from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts and from the Sorbonne. She is coauthor with Jean Lipman of Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since 1776.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0870703978
• ISBN 13: 9780870703973
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 192