Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 087070110X ISBN 13: 9780870701108

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

Synopsis

An incisive exploration of the still life genre as artists have rediscovered and reshaped it in the 20th century, Objects of Desire proves that despite the century's hostility toward older aesthetic conventions, avant-garde artists of many schools have made of the still life a vital opportunity for invention. From Matisse, Picasso, and Braque to the Dadaists, Surrealists, and Pop artists and finally to contemporary creators like Cindy Sherman and Charles Ray, the still life has hardly led a stolid, stable, or staunch existence. Originally a subject reserved for painting, the genre has progressively invaded the arena of sculpture, its themes reinvented in the provocative assemblages called "readymades," its forms recast continuously into the present. Published to accompany a major 1997 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Objects of Desire traces a radical rethinking of the genre in terms of subject matter and formal invention.

About this title

About the Author:

Margit Rowell is the former Chief Curator of the Department of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 087070110X
• ISBN 13: 9780870701108
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232