Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical Description: 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm. Contents: The visionary. "Boston is modern art pauper" ; Wellesley and modernism ; A modern art questionnaire ; The Necco factory ; A course of five lectures on modern art ; A new art museum ; A new museum ; Modern architecture : international exhibition : foreword ; Modern and "modern" ; Cubism and abstract art : introduction ; Chart of modern art ; A brief guide to the exhibition of fantastic art, Dada, surrealism ; Bauhaus 1919-1928 : preface The critic / historian. Russian diary ; The LEF and Soviet art ; Sergei Michailovitch Eisenstein ; Otto Dix ; Paul Klee : introduction ; Nationalism in German films ; Art in the Third Reich : preview, 1933 ; Italian sources of three great traditions of European painting ; Twentieth-century Italian art : early futurism ; Matisse, Picasso, and the crisis of 1907 The statesman. Research and publication in art museums ; A symposium : the state of American art ; Is modern art communistic? ; Artistic freedom ; The Museum of Modern Art's record on American artists ; The new American painting as shown in eight European countries, 1958-1959 : intruduction ; Tastemaking ; The pied-billed grebe ; The loyalty oath ; The miracle ; City's resort for wild fowl ; American conformity Borrow. Subjects: 1900-1999. Art 20e si�cle Art 20e si�cle Histoire et critique. Art, Modern. 1 Kg.

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Title: Defining modern art : selected writings of Alfred H. Barr, Jr
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, New York
Publication Date: 1986
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0810907151
ISBN 13: 9780810907157
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st edition.

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Essays by the man who helped found the Museum of Modern Art discuss cubism, abstract art, futurism, Matisse, Picasso, and artistic freedom

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