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Harriet S. Bee and Michelle Elligott

"This volume chronicles the Museum's story from its opening, ten days after the stock market crash of 1929, in a few rented rooms in a midtown office building, up to the present day, in its new building on West Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth streets. The book presents a pictorial and documentary review of each year, and each important period, of the Museum's history. It tells the story of how The Museum of Modern Art, New York, began as a small set of art galleries inaugurated by three ladies of means who had a passion for modern art. Through a selection of photographs, official documents, letters, quotations, newspaper clippings, cartoons, and other ephemera, the complex and multilayered history of the Museum unfolds in a visual march through time, revealing the extraordinary vision of a determined group of individuals who had the ability and courage to translate their vision into reality."--BOOK JACKET.

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[coordination éditoriale, Laura Maggioni

Maître de la chair, Auguste Rodin ne cessera de valoriser la figure humaine au point d'en faire l'épine dorsale de sa création. Donnant libre cours à son instinct et à son intuition, il persiste dans l'épopée de la forme et son art tout entier est une leçon de modernité. Propice aux découvertes et aux réflexions nouvelles, sa production artistique prolifique, protéiforme et exploratoire demeure unique. Cet ouvrage met en valeur un artiste éminemment libre et affranchi, et offre une série de figures et de morceaux accidentés, heurtés ou mutilés, trame de toutes les audaces formelles du créateur et reflet de l'émotion du sculpteur.

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Mary Morton, George T.M. Shackelford

"More than fifty of Gustave Caillebotte's (1848-1894) strongest paintings illustrate the fertile period from 1875 to 1885 when he was most closely allied with the impressionists. Accompanying the National Gallery of Art's major new exhibition, coorganized with the Kimbell Art Museum, this volume explores the inquisitive, experimental, almost fearless vision that inspired his masterworks"--

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Robert Wojtowicz

Lewis Mumford and American Modernism examines the career and writings of America's leading critic of architecture and criticism. The author of numerous books and articles and regular columnist for the New Yorker, Mumford focused on the roles that architecture, technology, and urbanism play in modern civilization. Although a key figure in the introduction of European ideas to the United States, he sought an American basis for modern architecture. Mumford was one of the first to write appreciatively of the achievements of the Chicago School, and he was a fervent supporter of Frank Lloyd Wright, whose buildings embodied the organic qualities that Mumford admired. Indeed, Mumford's writings have proved to be prescient, posing many challenging questions for architects and planners in a period of transition at the end of the twentieth century.