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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old, completed a series of 60 small tempera paintings with text captions about the Great Migration, the mass movement of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North that began in 1915-16. Within months of its making, the Migration Series was divided between The Museum of Modern Art (even-numbered panels) and the Phillips Memorial Gallery (odd-numbered panels). The work has since become a landmark...
43) The family of man: the greatest photographic exhibition of all time--503 pictures from 68 countries
Author
Pub. Date
1955.
Language
English
Series
Studies in modern art volume 1
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Essays discuss Ad Reinhardt, Jasper Johns, J.M.W. Turner, Jim Dine, minimalism, Robert Venturi, and Elia Kazan's "Wild River."
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"The art of drawing flourished in the 1990s, and broke significantly from the tenets of twentieth-century modernism. Drawing Now: Eight Propositions surveys this new work, and shows drawing as no less adventurous and aesthetically satisfying than any of the more recent and seemingly more current methods of artmaking today. Carefully executed and highly finished, the drawings explored in this book - which accompanies an exhibition at The Museum of...
52) Places
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
3rd. ed.
Language
English
Description
Examines, in simple terms, the nature of imaginary and realistic places created by such modern artists as Hopper, Munch, and Shahn.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Opens up the ... world of contemporary art for a young audience, inviting readers to explore, enjoy and question a variety of artworks drawn from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art"--Publisher's description.
Introduces children to the world of contemporary art via the works of more than 70 international artists selected entirely from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Includes suggested activities, artist quotations,...
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