Alfred H. Barr, Jr., and the intellectual origins of the Museum of Modern Art /

Growing up with the twentieth century, Alfred Barr (1902-1981), founding director of the Museum of Modern Art, harnessed the cataclysm that was modernism. In this book--part intellectual biography, part institutional history--Sybil Gordon Kantor tells the story of the rise of modern art in America a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kantor, Sybil Gordon
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
Barr, Alfred H., > Jr., > 1902-1981.
Barr, Alfred H., > Jr., > 1902-1981
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) > History.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Art museum directors > United States > Biography.
Directeurs de musée d'art > États-Unis > Biographies.
ART > Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions > Permanent Collections.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Artists, Architects, Photographers.
ART > Museum Studies.
Art museum directors
United States
Electronic books.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Knowing Alfred Barr
  • Ch. 1. The Princeton Years
  • Ch. 2. The Fogg Method and Paul J. Sachs: Barr and his Harvard Mentor
  • Ch. 3. Barr as Teacher, 1925 to 1927
  • Ch. 4. The Little Magazine and Modernism at Harvard
  • Ch. 5. The European Trip
  • Ch. 6. Modernism Takes Its Turn in America
  • Ch. 7. Architecture, Barr, and Henry-Russell Hitchcock
  • Ch. 8. Philip Johnson and Barr: Architecture and Design Enter the Museum
  • Ch. 9. The Directorship at Full Throttle.

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