Anne Umland Bücher

A Museum of Modern Art Book This splendidly illustrated panorama of the arts from 1920 to 1960 focuses on four landmark years-1929, 1939, 1948, and 1955. Published to accompany the second of three cycles of millennial exhibitions (MoMA2000) at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Making Choices presents cross-sections of modern art in all its many aspects during this period, and shows how the concept of simultaneity was essential to the concept of early modernism. The sheer diversity of work made in this period becomes clear as readers survey the different types of film, photography, design, painting, sculpture, drawing, and printmaking-all from the Modern's collections-reproduced here. But the richly variegated artistic texture revealed by such an across-the-board look also brings to light unexpected correspondences among distinct objects and images. Making Choices points toward modern art's heterogeneity even as it invites readers to search out and discover imaginative correlations. Approximately 350 illustrations, 220 in full color, 9 1/2 x 12"

No other collection of art from the past century approaches the richness of The Museum of Modern Art's holdings in paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, illustrated books, architecture, graphic arts, photography, film, video and installation. Offering an unparalleled view of the modern era, To Be Looked At brings together an inspired collection of 120 key works identified with MoMA, including work by Louise Bourgeois, Marcel Broodthaers, Paul Cézanne, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Vincent van Gogh, Philip Guston, Mona Hatoum, Jasper Johns, Frida Kahlo, Anselm Kiefer, Paul Klee, Roy Lichtenstein, René Magritte, Kazimir Malevich, Henri Matisse, Elizabeth Murray, Pablo Picasso, Sigmar Polke, Jackson Pollock, Gerhard Richter, Auguste Rodin, Edward Ruscha, Richard Serra, Andy Warhol and Rachel Whiteread.

Taking Joan Miró's notorious declaration of 1927 - 'I want to assassinate painting as its point of departure', this richly illustrated volume is the first to focus on Miró the anti-painter

Catalog of an exhibition held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 14, 2015-February 7, 2016.

Published in conjunction with a major exhibition organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in collaboration with The Menil Collection, Houston, and The Art Institute of Chicago, "Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938" focuses on the breakthrough Surrealist years of Rene Magritte, creator of some of the twentieth century's most extraordinary images. Bringing together nearly 80 paintings, collages and objects with a selection of photographs, periodicals and early commercial work, it offers fresh insight into Magritte's identity as a modern artist and one of Surrealism's greatest painters. Beginning in 1926, when Magritte first aimed to create paintings that would, in his words, "challenge the real world," and concluding in 1938--a historically and biographically significant moment just before the outbreak of World War II--the publication traces central strategies and themes from this seminal period, particularly those of displacement, isolation, transformation, metamorphosis, the "misnaming" of objects and the representation of visions seen in half-waking states. The publication also includes an illustrated chronology outlining significant moments in the artist's life during this period, including travel, connections with other Surrealist artists and writers, contributions to journals and important exhibitions and reviews.