Modern in the making MoMA and the modern experiment, 1929-1949 /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Establishing the Modern: MoMA and the Modern Experiment, Austin Porter (Kenyon College, USA) and Sandra Zalman (University of Houston, USA) -- Part I: Vernacular Influences -- Chapter 1: Folk Surrealism, Marci Kwon (Stanford University, USA) -- Chapter 2: New Rugs by American Artists : Modernism, Abstraction, and Rug Design at MoMA, Jennifer Padgett (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, USA) -- Chapter 3: MoMA's Child Artists, John Blakinger (University of Southern California, USA) -- Chapter 4: Floor, Ceiling, Wall, Garden Market: The Curatorial Scene of Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art , Andy Campbell (University of Southern California, USA) -- Part II: New Mediums for a New Museum: Photography, Dance, Architecture and Design -- Chapter 5: Aesthetic versus the "Mere Historic": Civil War and Frontier Photography at MoMA, Sarah Kate Gillespie (Gettysburg College, USA) -- Chapter 6: An Exact Instant in the History of the Modern, Jason Hill (University of Delaware, USA) -- Chapter 7: Performance and the Dance Archives at the Museum of Modern Art, Swagato Chakravorty (Yale University, USA) -- Chapter 8: Architecture on Display: Breuer's House in the Museum Garden, Catarina Schlee Flaksman (Independent Scholar) -- Part III: Mobilizing Modernism -- Chapter 9: Reproducing Art and the Museum: Ancestral Sources in and beyond the Museum of Modern Art, Rachel Kaplan (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA) -- Chapter 10: The 'Great Gallery' Goes to New York: Ancient American Rock Art, MOMA, and the New York Avant-Garde, James Farmer (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA) -- Chapter 11: "Toward a Happier and More Successful Life," or When Veterans Made, Art in the Modern Museum, Suzanne Hudson (University of Southern California, USA) -- Part IV: MoMA's Global Vision -- Chapter 12: Occidental Arrangements: MoMA's Emerging Global History of Art at Midcentury, John Ott (James Madison University, USA) -- Chapter 13: Exhibiting Italian Democracy in Twentieth Century Italian Art at the Museum of Modern Art, Antje Gamble (Murray State University, USA) -- Chapter 14: American Exceptionalism at the Modern, 1942-1959: Dorothy Miller's Americans, Angela Miller (Washington University, USA) -- Index.…”
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