Modern in the making : MoMA and the modern experiment, 1929-1949

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Modern in the making : MoMA and the modern experiment, 1929-1949

Title remainder

MoMA and the modern experiment, 1929-1949

Statement of responsibility

[edited by] Austin Porter and Sandra Zalman

Contributor

• Porter, Austin, 1960-
• Zalman, Sandra,

Editor

• Porter, Austin, 1960-
• Zalman, Sandra,

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Art
• Art, Modern -- 20th century
• History
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

Today the Museum of Modern Art is widely recognized for establishing the canon of modern art; yet in its early years, the museum considered modern art part of a still unfolding experiment in contemporary visual production. By bracketing MoMA's early history from its later reputation, this book explores the ways the Museum acted as a laboratory to set an ambitious agenda for the exhibition of a multidisciplinary idea of modern art. 0Between its founding in 1929 and its 20th anniversary in 1949, MoMA created the first museum departments of architecture and design, film, and photography in the country, marshaled modern art as a political tool, and brought consumer culture into a versatile yet institutional context. Encompassing 14 essays that investigate the diversity of modern art, this volume demonstrates how MoMA's programming shaped a version of modern art that was not elitist but fundamentally intertwined with all levels of cultural production

Cataloging source

YDX

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography