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"Places," as one might expect, explores locations that are both real and imagined through photos, architecture, and painting. Here again, artists practicing during the decades of nascent modernism--van Gogh, Gaugin, and art nouveau designer Hector Guimard, to name a few--are heavily represented. And here, too, later artists are mixed in to follow the trajectory of an idea: First Dream, a 1981 Bill Viola video set in the woods, is placed as a direct descendent of Eugène Atget's early-1920s images of trees in a suburban Parisian park.
"Things" is filled with objects raided from the museum's formidable design collection: Wright and Mackintosh chairs, a fireplace grille by Gaudí, a Tiffany lamp, a meat slicer designed by Egmont Arens in 1935, and Meret Oppenheim's fur-covered teacup set, along with representations of objects by the likes of Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio de Chirico, and, much later, Michael Craig-Martin. This innovative method of looking at relatively well known images will stimulate readers to rethink the artistically fertile period of the early 20th century and its continued relevance to today's art. ModernStarts is a thick volume stocked with many more artworks than can be described here--over 450 in all--and serves as an excellent record of the era in which artistic modernism found its footing. --Jordana Moskowitz
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. . . . . 4to, paperback. NEW. No wear inside or out: crisp, clean - pristine. 360 pp., illus. Art, Contemporary, Design, History, Modern, 0870700243. Seller Inventory # 1210313.21
Book Description Paperback. Condition: NEW. 360 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 31 cm. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Covers the period 1880-1920. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "A challenging exploration of the visual arts from 1880 through 1920, Modern Startsis an unconventional guide to the beginnings of modernism. Deliberately abandoning customary labels--such as Fauvism, Cubism, and Futurism--and accepted chronological ordering, Modern Startsoffers many pathways, each independent and self-sufficient, intended to suggest fresh modes of looking at and thinking about works both very familiar and quite unfamiliar. Loosely organized into three thematic sections, the book begins with 'People,' treating the great period of early modern figurative art from Rodin and Matisse to Munch. 'Places' features landscapes and cityscapes by such artists as Atget, Cazanne, de Chirico, and Leger. 'Things' addresses the importance of object-like works, such as Duchamp's 'Readymades' and Brancusi's sculptures; and representations of things from Picasso's still lifes to Lucian Bernhard's advertising posters. Provocative juxtapositions, new contexts, and inventive interplays of mediums provide a stimulating look at the beginnings of modernism. Published to coincide with MoMA2000, an 18-month series of exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York drawn from the Museum's incomparable collection. Modern Starts is the first in a series of three volumes focusing on distinct periods: 1880-1920, 1920-60, and 1960-2000." - Publisher. Size: 4to. Seller Inventory # 016797
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