Art in our time : a chronicle of the Museum of Modern Art / edited by Harriet S. Bee and Michelle Elligott.

New York : Museum of Modern Art, ©2004.

256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

"This volume chronicles the Museum's story from its opening, ten days after the stock market crash of 1929, in a few rented rooms in a midtown office building, up to the present day, in its new building on West Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth streets. The book presents a pictorial and documentary review of each year, and each important period, of the Museum's history. It tells the story of how The Museum of Modern Art, New York, began as a small set of art galleries inaugurated by three ladies of means who had a passion for modern art. Through a selection of photographs, official documents, letters, quotations, newspaper clippings, cartoons, and other ephemera, the complex and multilayered history of the Museum unfolds in a visual march through time, revealing the extraordinary vision of a determined group of individuals who had the ability and courage to translate their vision into reality."--BOOK JACKET.

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Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) History.
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Histoire.

History

Bee, Harriet Schoenholz.
Elligott, Michelle.

Location: Library main 238802
Call No.: BIB 168703
Status: Available