 When American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) proposed Broadacre City (1929–35), he advanced an astonishing claim: that the metropolis was obsolete. In its place, Broadacre was to be a “Usonian” synthesis, an unprecedented landscape unsullied >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633451537
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Pub Date: 07/30/2024 In stock
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|  “There is design in everything we perceive,” proposed Clara Porset (1895–1981), one of the most innovative Latin American designers of the 20th century. Although born in Matanzas, Cuba, Porset spent most of her life in >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633451629
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Pub Date: 04/16/2024 In stock
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|  During the 1920s, Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) became widely known for her paintings of enlarged flowers. But she regularly returned to abstraction, and indeed found it “surprising how many people separate the objective from the abstract.” >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633451346
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Pub Date: 09/20/2022 In stock
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 In 1962, when he painted Campbell’s Soup Cans, Andy Warhol was not yet a household name, and Pop art, the movement with which he is now identified, was still on the cusp of becoming a >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633451360
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|  “I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633451407
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Pub Date: 01/10/2023 Out of stock
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|  Tarsila do Amaral’s (1886–1973) painting The Moon (1928), a highly stylized, desolate nocturne, grew from the artist’s desire to create a new national form of expression for Brazil. In The Moon and other paintings of >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633451353
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 In 1981 Cindy Sherman (born 1954) was commissioned to contribute a special project to Artforum magazine. Given two facing pages, she chose to explore the pornographic centerfold, creating 12 large-scale horizontal images of herself appearing >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633451186
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Pub Date: 03/09/2021 In stock
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|  Helen Levitt’s (1913-2009) photographs from the 1930s and 1940s of the communities of New York City’s Harlem are startling achievements of street photography. They catch the evanescent configurations of gesture, movement, pose and expression that >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633451209
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|  In the midst of an extended road trip across the United States, Robert Frank turned from bustling Canal Street, New Orleans, where crowds of people swarmed the sidewalks, pointed his camera lens at a passing >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633451193
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 Upon first encountering Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s (1889–1943) diminutive Head (1920), one might wonder whether it is an abstract sculpture, a playful portrait or a functional object. Indicative of the artist’s pursuit to break down the conventional >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450684
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Pub Date: 07/23/2019 In stock
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|  Neutral hues, an ill-fitting man’s suit and wiggling locks of cut hair supplant Frida Kahlo’s (1907–54) usual lively color palette, indigenous Mexican dress and long plaits in Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair (1940). Nevertheless, the painting >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450752
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Pub Date: 07/23/2019 In stock
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|  Made at a critical juncture in Betye Saar’s (born 1926) career, the enigmatic assemblage Black Girl’s Window (1969) was recognized by the artist as a crucial link between her past and future even at the >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450769
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Pub Date: 07/23/2019 In stock
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 The US was in the midst of the Depression when Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) began documenting its impact through depictions of unemployed men on the streets of San Francisco. Her success won the attention of Roosevelt's >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450660
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Pub Date: 03/19/2019 In stock
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|  Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) painted her last self-portrait in 1907, while she was in her third trimester. In the painting she gazes straight at the viewer, holding up two flowers—symbols representing the creativity and procreativity of >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450745
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Pub Date: 03/19/2019 In stock
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|  Ten adults—men and women, black and white—fight, flee or die over the twelve-foot span of American People Series #20: Die, as an interracial pair of children cowers unnoticed in their midst. While Faith Ringgold (born >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450677
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Pub Date: 03/19/2019 In stock
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 Oppenheim: Object
Text by Carolyn Lanchner. In 1936, invited by André Breton to contribute to an exhibition of Surrealist objects, Meret Oppenheim (1913–85) decided to act upon a café conversation she had recently had with Pablo Picasso and his then companion >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450196
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Pub Date: 10/24/2017 In stock
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|  De Chirico: The Song of Love
Text by Emily Braun. The unexpected encounter of a rubber glove, a green ball and the head from the classical statue of the Apollo Belvedere gives rise to one of the most compelling paintings in the history of modernist >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870708725
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Pub Date: 03/31/2014 In stock
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|  Rauschenberg: Canyon
Text by Leah Dickerman. In the mid-1950s, declaring “there is no reason not to consider the world as a gigantic painting,” Robert Rauschenberg began a series of radical experiments with what he called “Combines,” a term he coined to >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870708947
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Pub Date: 02/28/2014 In stock
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 Pollock: One: Number 31, 1950
Text by Charles Stuckey. In the late 1940s, Jackson Pollock (1912–1956), now recognized as one of the most important Abstract Expressionist artists, began experimenting with a new method of painting that involved dripping, flinging and pouring paint onto a >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870708480
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Pub Date: 07/31/2013 In stock
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|  Pablo Picasso: Girl before a Mirror
Text by Anne Umland. “Girl before a Mirror” (1932), one of several standouts in MoMA’s vast collection of Pablo Picasso’s work, takes the traditional artistic theme of a woman before her mirror and reinvents it in radically modern terms. >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870708299
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Pub Date: 07/31/2012 Out of stock
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|  Henri Rousseau: The Dream
Text by Ann Temkin. A singular figure in the avant garde of the early twentieth century, Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) was a self-taught painter who turned to art after retiring as a customs inspector at the age of 49. Although >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870708305
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Pub Date: 07/31/2012 In stock
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 Andrew Wyeth: Christina’s World
Text by Laura Hoptman. In 1948 Andrew Wyeth produced what would become one of the most iconic paintings in American art: a desolate landscape featuring a woman lying in a field, that he called “Christina’s World.” The woman in >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870708312
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Pub Date: 07/31/2012 Out of stock
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