Main entry:

Galassi, Peter.

Title & Author:

Making choices : 1929, 1939, 1948, 1955 / Peter Galassi, Robert Storr, Anne Umland.

Publication:

New York : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 2000.

Description:

348 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 16-Sept. 26, 2000.
"Making Choices is the second of three cycles of exhibitions organized by the Museum ... under the banner MoMA2000 to mark the millennium"--Page 6.
Includes index.
"Published in conjunction with Making Choices, a cycle of twenty-four exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 16-September 26, 2000"--T.p. verso.
Foreword -- Introduction -- 1929 -- 1939 -- 1948 -- 1955.

Summary:

"The book is published to accompany the second of three cycles of exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art. The first cycle, ModernStarts, explored the period from 1880 to 1920; Making Choices considers the years between 1920 and 1960; the third cycle, Open Ends, will concentrate on art since 1960." "More than 300 works are reproduced in Making Choices, representing all of the Museum's curatorial departments: architecture and design, drawings, film and video, painting and sculpture, photography, and prints and illustrated books. By selecting four years from a span of four decades, the authors were able for each year to delve deeply into the Museum's rich collection, assembling many fascinating but unfamiliar works along with justly famous masterpieces. The resulting groupings and juxtapositions reflect the simultaneous convergence and divergence of a wide range of creative endeavors at any one moment. For example: Christina's World, an outstanding example of Andrew Wyeth's realist dissent from modernist innovation, and Number 1, 1948, Jackson Pollock's landmark experiment in abstraction, were both painted in 1948. In this lively book, they face each other on opposite pages, challenging the reader to grapple with the vital multiplicity of modern art."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0870700308 (cloth, Thames & Hudson)
9780870700309 (cloth, Thames & Hudson)
0870700294 (paper, MOMA)
9780870700293 (paper, MOMA)
0810962136 (cloth, Abrams)
9780810962132 (cloth, Abrams)

Subject:

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Exhibitions.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Expositions.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Arts, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Art New York (State) New York Exhibitions.
Modernism (Art)
Art 20e siècle Expositions.
Modernisme (Art)
Arts 20e siècle Expositions.
Art New York (État) New York Expositions.
Art
Arts, Modern
Beeldende kunsten.
Vormgeving.
Filmkunst.
Museum of Modern Art (N.Y.)
Art, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
New York (State) New York

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Storr, Robert.
Umland, Anne.
Galassi, Peter
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212484
Call No.: N620.M9 A6 2000
Status: Available