Book

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Modern painting and sculpture : 1880 to the present at the Museum of Modern Art / edited by John Elderfield.

1st ed.

New York : Museum of Modern Art, ©2004.

536 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm

Modern pioneers - Matisse - Picasso - Modernism - Art in Europe trough to World War I - Modernism between the two World Wars - Transatlantic modern - Art of the real - Pop Art - Minimalist painting and sculpture - Contemporary Art - Modern art since 1970.

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Painting -- New York (State) -- New York.

Sculpture -- New York (State) -- New York.

Painting, Modern.

Sculpture, Modern.

Elderfield, John.

1880 to the present at the Museum of Modern Art

"Published on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Museum of Modern Art and the opening of its new building"--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The front door to understanding / John Elderfield -- Texts and plates -- Modern pioneers: from 1880 into the twentieth century -- Matisse, Picasso, modernism: art in Europe through World War I -- Fauvism, symbolism, expressionism -- Picasso and Cubism -- Futurism -- Matisse -- Crosscurrents -- Age of "isms": modernisms between the two world wars -- Dada -- Suprematism and constructivism -- Mondrian and de Stijl -- Realisms -- Surrealism -- Transatlantic modern: Europe, America -- Abstraction and figuration -- Abstract expressionism -- After abstract expressionism -- Crosscurrents -- Art of the real: pop, minimal, 1960s -- Pop art -- Abstract and minimalist painting and sculpture -- After minimalism -- Untitled (contemporary): modern art since 1970.

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