Invitation to See: 150 Works from the Museum of Modern Art - Softcover

Franc, Helen M

9780810961630: Invitation to See: 150 Works from the Museum of Modern Art

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810961636 ISBN 13: 9780810961630

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 1996

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, C�zanne, 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.

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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.

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