Museum of Modern Art | ISBN:0870708287 | File Type: PDF, 376 pages | File size: 51.Mb | Dec. 31st, 2012
Art Group Shows: In 1912 in several European cities a handf of artists Vasily Kandinsky Frantisek Kupka Francis icabia and Robert Delaunay presented the first abstract pictures to the public Inventing Abstraction published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art celebrates the centennial of this bold new type of artwork It traces the development of abstraction as it moved through a network of modern artists from Marsden Hartley and Marcel Duchamp to iet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich sweeping across nations and across media This richly illustrated publication covers a wide range of artistic production including paintings drawings books scptures film photography sound poetry atonal music and non narrative dance to draw a cross media portrait of these watershed years An introductory essay by Leah Dickerman Curator in the Museum s Department of ainting and Scpture is followed by focused studies of key groups of works events and critical issues in abstraction s early history by renowned scholars from a variety of fields
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