Authors:Anne Umland, Adrian Sudhalter,
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Keywords: art, modern, museum, collection, dada
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-05-01
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0870706683
ISBN-13: 9780870706684

This publication, the first devoted exclusively to The Museum of Modern Art’s unrivaled Dada collection, features some seventy works-books, collages, drawings, films, paintings, photographs, photomontages, prints, readymades, and reliefs-in large reproductions accompanied by in-depth, object-focused essays by an interdepartmental group of the Museum’s curators. Catalyzed by the major Dada exhibition that appeared in 2005 and 2006 in Paris and Washington, D.C. and at MoMA, the book benefits from new scholarship generated by the extraordinary opportunity the exhibition created for an

Authors:Mel Byars, Terence Riley,
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Keywords: encyclopedia, design
Number of Pages: 832
Published: 2004-06-02
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 087070012X
ISBN-13: 9780870700125

The Museum of Modern Art Design Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive design reference guide to date. Compiled over the last 15 years by Mel Byars, in consultation with an international team of design experts, The Encyclopedia sets out to provide the factual framework of a discipline whose own historical accounting of itself is still relatively young. (By way of contrast, art history has existed as a scholarly discipline for over two centuries, and has produced a fairly comprehensive record of itself in that time period.) Only once before has a similarly comprehensive overview of the history

Authors:Paulo Herkenhoff, Roxana Marcoci, Miriam Basilio,
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Keywords: tempo
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2002-07-02
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0870706861
ISBN-13: 9780870706868

The concept of time has been discussed by philosophers throughout the ages. What is its nature? How does one depict it? Artists, especially, have struggled with representing the ephemeral thing that is time--from On Kawara’s never-ending series of dated one-day paintings, to Janine Antoni’s infinitely massive and barely gnawed-at hunks of chocolate and lard, to Hiroshi Sugimoto’s long-exposure photographs of movie theaters, to Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle’s sped-up video of human motion in Mies van der Rohe’s New National Gallery in Berlin. Tempo will feature encycloped

Author: Robert Venturi
Publisher: "The Museum of Modern Art, New York"
Keywords: architecture, contradiction, complexity, venturi, robert
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2002-07-02
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0870702823
ISBN-13: 9780870702822

Authors:Ann Temkin, Briony Fer, Benjamin Buchloh, Gabriel Oro
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Keywords: orozco, gabriel
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-12-31
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0870707620
ISBN-13: 9780870707629

Gabriel Orozco emerged at the beginning of the 1990s as one of the most intriguing and original artists of his generation, one of the last to come of age during the twentieth century. His work is unique in its formal power and intellectual rigor, resisting confinement to one medium and roaming freely and fluently among drawing, photography, sculpture, installation and painting. Orozco deliberately blurs the boundary between the art object and the everyday environment, situating his work in a place that merges art and reality, whether through exquisite drawings made on airplane boarding passes

Authors:Wendy Weitman, Kiki Smith,
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Keywords: things, books, prints, smith, kiki
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 2009-07-31
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0870705830
ISBN-13: 9780870705830

Well-known as a sculptor, Kiki Smith has also worked extensively as a printmaker--in fact her printed works and other editioned art, including books and multiples, are arguably as important as her sculpture. Smith emerged in the early 1980s as one of a generation of artists who returned to figurative imagery after a period in which American art had leaned to the abstract and conceptual. In Smith’s case the interest in the figure was literal: She is fascinated by the anatomy of the human body, which is an immediate and emotionally powerful presence in much of her work. She is equally conc

Authors:John Elderfield, Elizabeth Reede, Richard Powell, Mar
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Keywords: puryear, martin
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0870707140
ISBN-13: 9780870707148

Over the last 30 years, Martin Puryear has created a body of work that defies categorization, creating sculpture that examines identity, culture and history. Departing from the impersonal and machined aesthetic of Minimalism, Puryear’s work combines Modernist abstraction with the traditions of crafts and woodworking, in shapes informed by the natural and by ordinary objects, made with materials such as tar, wood, stone and wire. It is quiet but deliberately associative, encompassing wide-reaching cultural and intellectual experiences and drawing on a huge and varied reserve of images, id