Making Choices: 1929, 1939, 1948, 1955

Galassi, Peter and Robert Storr, Anne Umland

ISBN 10: 0810962136 / ISBN 13: 9780810962132

Published by MOMA / Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2000

About this Item

With 306 illustrations, including 162 in full color and 144 in duotones.

Seller Inventory # 9004743

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Choices: 1929, 1939, 1948, 1955
• Publisher: MOMA / Harry N. Abrams, New York
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810962136
• ISBN 13: 9780810962132
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Book fine, Dust jacket fine.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art
  • Book

About this title

Synopsis

The book is published to accompany the second of three cycles of exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art. The first cycle, ModernStarts, explored the period from 1880 to 1920; Making Choices considers the years between 1920 and 1960; the third cycle, Open Ends, will concentrate on art since 1960.
More than 300 works are reproduced in Making Choices, representing all of the Museum's curatorial departments: architecture and design, drawings, film and video, painting and sculpture, photography, and prints and illustrated books. By selecting four years from a span of four decades, the authors were able for each year to delve deeply into the Museum's rich collection, assembling many fascinating but unfamiliar works along with justly famous masterpieces. The resulting groupings and juxtapositions reflect the simultaneous convergence and divergence of a wide range of creative endeavors at any one moment. For example: Christina's World, an outstanding example of Andrew Wyeth's realist dissent from modernist innovation, and Number 1, 1948, Jackson Pollock's landmark experiment in abstraction, were both painted in 1948. In this lively book, they face each other on opposite pages, challenging the reader to grapple with the vital multiplicity of modern art.

Synopsis

An illustrated panorama of the arts during the middle years of the 20th century that focuses on four landmark years: 1929, 1939, 1948 and 1955. This approach yields cross-sections of modern art in its many aspects. All examples are taken from the Museum of Modern Art's collection from this period.