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3 reviews
John Elderfield, Elizabeth Reede, ...

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007

This artist gives me hope for our world.
Being at the opening of this show at moma was an amazingly wonderful and magical evening. Went to the very exciting opening of this show in NYC and it was truly uplifting to my soul, a very inspired exhibit!! Emotional content mixed with organic elements of expression. Amazing accomplishment. He is a 30 year ago Art school friend of my friend. For me it was like a immensely large tree ...

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

2 reviews
Sjaar van Heugten, Joachim Pissarro, ...

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008

Barely Three Stars
I have to agree with the previous reviewers comments about the Van Gogh exhibit he was unfortunately unable to attend. I just came from the MOMA today, and it was indeed remarkable to have so many of the artist's works in a single show. That said, I would also concur that the central theme of the show is a bit contrived. It seems to be organized around a few comments Van Gogh made to his ...

Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years

4 reviews
Kynaston McShine, Lynne Cooke, ...

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007

STUNNING
This book is a stunning collection of Richard Serra's work over the years. Truly an American master. I am always intrigued by the choice to do Serra in black and white, but it works. I consider this book an essential addition to my collection of art texts.

Kirchner and the Berlin Street

1 review
Deborah Wye, Ernst Kirchner

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008

When the street becomes art
The catalogue for a small exhibition at the Moma centered on a famous body of works painted by Kirchner in 1913-1914 depicting street scenes in Berlin, this book is divided into two chapters: chapter one explains the meaning of these scenes (the importance of urban life, the presence of the female figure as the main character - are these women passers-by, shoppers, prostitutes?)and their explicit ...

The Printed Picture
Richard Benson

Museum of Modern Art, 2008

Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004

3 reviews

Louisiana Museum Of Modern Art, 2007

Avedon's People
According to photographer Anthony Snowdon, a viewer, when looking at a picture, should not be able to tell who the photographer was. That may be true about his own photographs; he was wrong, however, when it comes to the work of Richard Avedon. Many of his photographs are instantly recognizable as uniquely his or the shots of someone imitating him. Mr. Avedon gave the world the portrait where the ...

Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

5 reviews
Robert Venturi

"The Museum of Modern Art, New York", 1977

Gateway towards looking at architecture
I had to read this book for a class specifically regarding Robert Venturi and the postmodernism movement that he became a leading proponent of. However, this book is NOT a manifesto for a postmodern vacabulary- rather, this book looks at all architecture from the Parthenon to the common family home. Let me say that I have read many architectural theory books, but nothing that really inspired me ...

The Family Of Man

26 reviews

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002

Perhaps the best photographic book ever published
I first found this book at Foyle's in London, about 35 years ago, and it struck me. Since then, I bought five copies of the Family of Man, but no one remained in my home, because ever I felt the need to give this book to someone I loved or trusted. What is making this book so precious to me? First the idea itself of collecting pictures from the whole world (remember, when Steichen launched his ...

Home Delivery
Ken Tadashi Oshima, Rasmus Waern

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008

As the world's population swells and the need for sustainable ways of living grows ever more urgent and obvious, prefabricated architecture has taken center stage. Even before our current predicaments, the mass-produced, factory-made home had a distinguished history, having served as a vital precept in the development of Modern architecture. Today, with the digital revolution reorganizing the relationship between drafting board and factory, it ...

The Photographer's Eye

10 reviews
John Szarkowski

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007

A good overview of B&W photography
I like collections of photos by many different artists, and this book has a good number of diverse pre-1970 photos to browse. There is a minimum of text and that is fine with me. The book's main contribution is that it suggests a means of systematizing photography, by frame, subject, time, details and other aspects, and as such provides a compelling jumping off point from which the aspiring ...

Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills

9 reviews
Peter Galassi

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2003

This book shows what is great about Cindy Sherman
At first glance, you might see ordinary, banal photos that resemble out takes from studio stills. Look deeper and you will see works of genius that expose a new way of seeing and exploring the inner self that have been highly influential in the art world. This book has the images that started it all for Cindy Sherman and for that reason, you should start with this book if you want to learn ...

Design and the Elastic Mind

1 review
Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Peter Hall, ...

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008

Interesting book
This book is a very useful compendium, and a help to better understand what seen in the MoMA Expo. I liked the expo, and I like more the book.

Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting

10 reviews
Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002

A great artist thumbs his nose at high art
A lot of words been written lately about the ?unexpected revival of painting? fueled by the current Gerhardt Richter painting retrospective captured in this book. It seems, according to some influential art scribes writing in the trail of this traveling exhibition, that the much heralded demise of painting, much like Mark Twain?s death, has been greatly exaggerated. Showcasing about 120 works ...

Drawing Now: Eight Propositions

6 reviews
Kai Althoff, Laura Hoptman, ...

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002

Provocative Survey
The catalogue that accompanies the Drawing Now exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art is just as well thought and carefully crafted. The show is divided into eight themes that bring a solid foundation to a wide scope of works. Each section in the catalogue begins with an insightful essay further developing the rich ideas behind the show. The beautiful illustrations and large format of the ...

Design Encyclopedia, The

1 review
Mel Byars

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2004

At second glance
When I first received this, I fanned through it and was disappointed. I was expecting to see huge glossy photographs of fantastic works of art and all I could see was a whole lot of text. I set it aside. Later, I opened it again and this time I went through it more slowly. I was wrong. The images are smaller than I had anticipated but the book is filled with them and the text is ...

Jack Pierson
Enrique Juncosa, Wayne Koestenbaum, ...

Charta/Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2008

This publication--at once a daybook, a survey (it accompanies the artist's first exhibition in Ireland) and an artist's book--collects eight previous publications on the American artist Jack Pierson, several of which are long out of print. Pierson was among the first photographers to print pages with the imagery bleeding out of its usual white frame, and to deploy a bleached-out and overexposed style of photography that connotes a longing for a ...

Color Chart
Ann Temkin, Briony Fer, ...

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008

Color Chart addresses the impact of standardized, mass-produced color on the art of the past 60 years. Taking the commercial color chart as its central metaphor, this volume chronicles an important artistic shift that took place during the middle of the twentieth century: a frank acknowledgment of color as a matter-of-fact element rather than a vehicle of spiritual or emotional content. Collected here are more than 40 artists who explore in ...

Dali & Film
Dawn Ades, Montse Aguer, ...

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007

Salvador Dali was one of the most famous--and one of the most notorious--artists of the twentieth century, recognized as much in the popular imagination for his flamboyant personal style and his penchant for showmanship as for his groundbreaking artworks in many media. Dali & Film investigates, for the first time in depth, the part played by film as a key influence on Dali's art, as well as his extensive involvement in film-based projects. ...

Georges Seurat: The Drawings

6 reviews
Jodi Hauptman, Karl Buchberg, ...

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007

The unknown side of a master
This is a wonderful book, published to accompany the current exhibition at the MOMA in New York. High-quality illustrations with some close-ups of details (the texture of the paper even gives the reader the impression of holding an actual drawing because it resembles the grainy Michallet paper Seurat used) show how Seurat considered drawing an art form in its own right: some drawings are studies ...

Moma Highlights

1 review

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2005

chock full of good stuff
i thought this book was very much an enjoyable and fun book to look through. it amazed me how much material was put in it, considering on appearances it looks like a little publication. i thought that the art plates were beautiful and the colors well repeated. i am absulutely thrilled that i bought this book and would not hesitate to buy it for a friend for an occation

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