Modern Art

Few institutions approach the richness of The Museum of Modern Art's holdings in painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, illustrated books, architectural models and drawings, graphic and industrial desi

The modern art lover's essential calendar features 12 of the most famous works from the Museum of Modern Art, including masterpieces by Edward Hopper, Rene Magritte, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, an

The modern art lover's essential calendar features 12 of the most famous works from The Museum of Modern Art, including masterpieces by Henri Matisse, Vincent van Gogh, Marc Chagall, and Andy Warhol.*

The modern art lover's essential wall calendar returns with 12 world-famous masterpieces from the Museum of Modern Art. From the swirling skies of van Gogh's The Starry Night to the pensive silence o

The modern art lover's essential wall calendar returns with 12 world-famous masterpieces from the Museum of Modern Art. From the swirling skies of van Gogh's The Starry Night to the pensive silence o

Through this appealing and generously illustrated book, modern art in all its complexity and diversity becomes accessible. Charting the development of modern art from the nineteenth century through th

A volume to accompany a contemporary exhibition looks at the five "portable murals" created by Mexican artist Diego Rivera in New York City for a major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Decemb

Essays discuss the role of women at the Museum of Modern Art and the museum's influence on women artists; profile noted early modern, mid-century and contemporary women artists; and explore other aspe

Published as a large-format hardcover to celebrate the museum’s 90th anniversary and the October 2019 opening of the new MoMA after its historic expansionIn October 2019, the Museum of Modern Art cele

The first in a new series of essential introductions to art, Modern Art guides the reader through individual movements from Impressionism to Conceptual Art, situated within five broader chronological

Surveys the lithographs, etchings, and linoleum cuts created by the late artist through color reproductions and essays that examine specific pieces of art.

This volume, published on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of The Museum of Modern Art and the opening of its new building, is a comprehensive overview of its painting and sculpture coll

Chronologically arranged, each chapter focuses on a particular work or idea that changed modern art as we know it. Through beautiful spreads and with informative text, readers will discover how a pain

Text by Glenn D. Lowry.

Modern Art Explorer is a witty and brilliantly illustrated introduction to modern art for children that takes readers undercover to discover the stories behind thirty famous artworks from the Centre Pompidou's collection in Paris. By going behind the scenes and turning each artwork inside out, young readers will see that artworks aren’t remote monuments but real things that are shaped into being by ideas, inspirations, human lives, world events and the materials artists use. Children will be entertained and intrigued by a variety of engagingly specific details and buoyed by their ability to understand what these works of art are all about. Award-winning illustrator Serge Bloch’s cheeky, comic and energetic illustrations serve to illuminate the information and the ideas in each artwork. The thirty featured artworks themselves represent the work of a diverse range of modern and contemporary artists from one of the world’s most celebrated modern art museums. Modern art has never seemed so

What made modern art so ground-breaking? Discover for yourself with The Modern Art Journal a thought-provoking introduction to the revolutionary world of modern art. This interactive activity book int

Can you put your modern art knowledge tothe test and save the gallery from disaster?Find out in Modern Art Mayhem. Readers must use their problem-solving skills and artistic knowledge to navigate thro

As a philosophical approach, phenomenology is concerned with structure in how phenomena are experienced. The Phenomenology of Modern Art uses phenomenological insights to explain the significance of s

The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden at the Museum of Modern Art holds a special place in the hearts of many, whether artists or museumgoers, New Yorkers or visitors from around the world. It

Crowther (philosophy, National U. of Ireland) addresses basic features of modern art "on the basis of style as a bearer of aesthetic meaning." He defines style as "a way of visually disclosing attitud

A smaller-sized follow-up to Isms: Understanding Art traces the history and development of modern art since the Impressionist era and combines concise introductions to modern art with reproductions of

Text by Judith B. Hecker, William Kentridge.

"How shall the two-dimensional print in black and white suggest the flux of activity of the metropolis, the interaction of human beings and solid architectural constructions, all impinging upon each

Modern Art and Modernism offers firsthand material for the study of issues central to the development of modern art, its theory, and criticism. The history of modern art is not simply a history of wor

Following a spectacular surge in interest for Egyptian masters, Modern Art in Egypt fills the void in Egyptian art history, chronicling the lives and legacies of six pioneering artists working under t

This modern art lover's essential calendar features 12 masterworks from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, including world-famous paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Edward Hopper, Willem de K

This modern art lover's essential calendar features 12 masterworks from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, including world-famous paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Edward Hopper, Willem de K

Music and Modern Art adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the relationship between these two fields of creative endeavor.

In 1912, in several European cities, a handful of artists--Vasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Francis Picabia and Robert Delaunay--presented the first abstract pictures to the public. "Inventing Abstr

Here for the first time is a full-length study of the 'critical modernisms' of the three leading art writers of the second half of the twentieth century, which helps us build a better understanding of