Alfred H. Barr, Jr.: Cubism and Abstract Art: Painting, Sculpture, Constructions, Photography, Architecture, Industrial Art, Theatre, Films, Posters, Typography (1936)
Filed under book, catalogue | Tags: · abstract art, abstraction, architecture, art, art history, avant-garde, constructivism, cubism, dada, design, expressionism, fauvism, film, futurism, impressionism, painting, photography, sculpture, suprematism, surrealism, theatre, typography
The catalogue of the first MoMA’s retrospective of modernism, held 2 March-19 April 1936, laid the theoretical foundation of the museum. Its jacket contains a notorious chart of modernist art history, the Diagram of Stylistic Evolution from 1890 until 1935.
“The catalogue remains an important historical document (as does that for Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism). It set abstraction within a formalist framework that—ignoring the intellectual byways of French symbolism, German idealism, and Russian Marxism of the previous thirty years—was shaped by the scientific climate that had started a century before. … The exhibition together with the widespread dissemination of its influential catalogue, established Cubism as the central issue of early modernism, abstraction as the goal.” (Sybil Gordon Kantor, 2003)
The exhibition later traveled to another 7 cities: San Francisco, Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Baltimore, Providence, and Grand Rapids.
Publisher Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1936
249 pages
via MoMA
Commentary: Meyer Schapiro (Marxist Quarterly, 1937), Susan Noyes Platt (Art Journal, 1988), Astrit Schmidt Burkhardt (Word & Image, 2000).
Publisher (incl. master checklist and press releases)
WorldCat
PDF (47 MB)
Comment (1)Glória Ferreira (ed.): Crítica de Arte no Brasil: temáticas contemporâneas (2006) [BR-PT]
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, art, art criticism, art history, art theory, avant-garde, brazil, concrete art, constructivism, contemporary art, media, neo-concrete art, painting
A collection of 91 texts by 80 authors that represent a multidisciplinary universe of ideas and opinions regarding the visual arts of Brazil from 1946-2006. The essays are divided into 7 main topics: Constructive Tradition; Avant-Garde / Experimentalism; Art Criticism; Circuits; Return / Permanence of Painting; Images and Media; and Transitive Situations.
The authors include Mário Pedrosa, Ferreira Gullar, Aracy Amaral, Décio Pignatari, Mario Schenberg, Frederico Morais, Paulo Sérgio Duarte, Hélio Oiticica, Reynaldo Roels Junior, Murilo Mendes, Fernando Cocchiarale, Cildo Meireles, Walmir Ayala, Ronaldo Brito, Antonio Dias, Jorge Guinle, Paulo Herkenhoff, Waldemar Cordeiro, Haroldo de Campos, Roberto Pontual, Arlindo Machado, Wilson Coutinho and Joaquim Ferreira dos Santos.
Publisher Funarte, Rio de Janeiro, 2006
Pensamento crítico series
ISBN 8575070797, 9798575070795
575 pages
PDF (32 MB)
Comment (0)Ada Raev: Russische Künstlerinnen der Moderne (1870-1930). Historische Studien, Kunstkonzepte, Weiblichkeitsentwürfe (2002) [German]
Filed under book | Tags: · art history, art theory, avant-garde, painting, russia, sculpture, theatre, women
“Mit ihren Werken, ihren theoretischen Positionen und ihren Aktivitäten im zeitgenössischen Kunstleben haben russische Künstlerinnen die Geschichte der russischen und europäischen Kunst zwischen 1880 und 1930 wesentlich mitgeprägt.
Das Buch spürt den mentalitätsgeschichtlichen, politischen und institutionellen Voraussetzungen des Phänomens “Russische Künstlerinnen der Moderne” nach und stellt ihr Wirken im zeitgenössischen Kanon der Künste (Kunsthandwerk, Graphik und Buchkunst, Malerei, Plastik, Szenographie) vor.”
Publisher Wilhelm Fink, Munich, 2002
Open access
ISBN 3770536991, 9783770536993
451 pages
Reviews: Renate Berger (kritische berichte 2004), Karoline Hille (Frauen Kunst Wissenschaft 2004), Alexandra Oberländer (Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 2005).
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