Modern art despite modernism Robert Storr
Publisher: New York : Museum of Modern Art, c2000.
ISBN: 0870700316
DDC: 709.0400747471
LCC: N6490
Edition: (MoMA,T&H)
Summary:
"This book, published in conjunction with an exhibition drawn from
the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, explores the
antimodernist impulse and, in so doing, presents a new vision of the
complexities of modern art. In an in-depth study, Robert Storr,
Senior Curator in the Museum's Department of Painting and Sculpture,
traces the development of what he calls the anti-avant-garde, from
its first appearance as the widespread "return to order" in European
art after World War I through the reemergence of figuration in
international work of the 1980s." "Storr discusses the social,
political, and historical forces affecting paintings, sculpture,
drawings, and prints, along with the influence of such major figures
as Pablo Picasso, Otto Dix, and Philip Guston on the ascendancy of
classicizing, narrative, and so-called traditional art at various
times in the twentieth century. The fact that artists often crossed
the boundary between modernism and the anti-avant garde - and that
their aesthetic choices were not necessarily aligned with their
political views - may surprise readers. Storr also looks at changing
notions of taste and the reception of avant-garde art in the United
States, a process in which The Museum of Modern Art played a key
role."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes:
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Modern art despite
modernism at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 16-July 26,
2000, organized by Robert Storr ... is part of a larger exhibition,
Making choices, which is in turn part of a series of exhibitions
entitled MoMA2000"--T.p. verso.
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