Inventing the Modern

Name: Inventing the Modern
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Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped The Museum of Modern Art

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Profiles of fourteen women who transformed the country's foremost modern art museum in its fledgling years. Founded in 1929, The Museum of Modern Art owes much of its success to a group of remarkable women who shaped its future during its first decades. Because there were... Read More

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Profiles of fourteen women who transformed the country's foremost modern art museum in its fledgling years.

Founded in 1929, The Museum of Modern Art owes much of its success to a group of remarkable women who shaped its future during its first decades. Because there were few precedents for a museum devoted to modern art, MoMA was free to invent itself without the requirements—professional experience, competitive salaries—that traditionally limited an art institution's jobs to men.

At MoMA, women were able to create and define their roles as founders, patrons, curators, and department directors, changing, as they did so, the course of art history. In this volume, readers are transported to the grit and glamour of midtown Manhattan in the 1930s and '40s through profiles of fourteen pioneering figures who made an indelible mark not only on MoMA but on the culture of their time.

Inventing the Modern is an exploration of the profound impact these trailblazing women had on the art world and beyond.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781633450790

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 03 September 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Museum of Modern Art

Illustration: 235 Illustrations

Contributors:

Foreword by Anna Deavere Smith
Edited by Ann Temkin
Edited by Romy Silver-Kohn
Foreword by Anna Deavere Smith

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 160.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 960g

Pages: 424

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Ann Temkin is the MarieJosée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Romy Silver-Kohn is a researcher in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Anna Deavere Smith is an actress and playwright credited with creating a new form of documentary theater. She is a professor at the Tisch School of the Arts and the founding director of New York University's Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue.