Modernstarts
People, Places, Things
by John Elderfield
ISBN: 0870700251
ISBN-13: 9780870700255
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
This catalog details New York City's MoMa 2000-an 18-month series of exhibitions that explored the birth of modernism. In addition to over 450 illustrations, it offers essays by eminent curators that address the works of Picasso, Rodin, Matisse, and several other 20th-century figures who pioneered the movement.
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Publisher: Museum of Modern Art Published date: 1999 Size: 12.5 x 9.75 inches Weight: 5.3 pounds
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Modernstarts: People, Places, Things
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Modern Starts; People, Places and Things
Elderfield (Ed) John
Museum of Modern Art (New York) 1999. Mint in publishers cloth in like dustjacket. 344pp. Illustrated throughout. 1st edition of excellent study of Visual Arts between 1880 and 1920. 4to.This exploration of the early decades of the early decades of modernism in the arts is published to accompany the first of three cycles of centennial exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, beginning October 7, 1999. ISBN 0870700251 ( more information)
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ModernStarts : People, Places, Things
Chan, Mary (editor); Elderfield, John (editor); Reed, Peter (editor); Gonzalez, Maria del Carmen (editor)
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Museum of Modern Art, 1999 360 pp, 12 ¼" x 9 ½", copy is in near-MINT condition, dust jacket has tiny repaired corner tear, includes 450 reproductions of works in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, includes two brochures from the Things and Places exhibitions laid in. This book was published in conjunction with an exhibition of these works shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1999.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. ( more information)
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Modernstarts: People · Places · Things
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Edited by John Elderfield, Peter Reed, Mary Chan, Maria del Carmen González
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1999 359 pp., 456 illus. 235 in color. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York October 7, 1999-March 14, 2000. Dustjacket is protected with a mylar cover. . Cloth. Fine Condition/Fine Condition. ( more information)
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