ART IN OUR TIME
A. Conger Goodyear [preface]
A. Conger Goodyear [preface]:ART IN OUR TIME [An Exhibition to Celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of the Museum Of Modern Art and the Opening of Its New Building Held at the Time of the New York World's Fair]. New York: the Museum of Modern Art, 1939. First edition. Quarto. Thick printed wrappers. 384 pp. 400 black and white plates. Errata sheet tipped in. Exhibition catalog of the 10th Anniversary Exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art. Wrappers mildly toned, and six text block leaves once dog-eared, but a very good copy.
7.5 x 10 perfect-bound softcover book with 384 pages profusely illustrated with 400 black and white plates of Modern Artifact culled from MoMA’s collection during their first ten years. Includes a 12-page, detailed catalog of Films, Publications, Color Reproductions and Circulating Exhibitions available from the by Museum of Modern Art.
Judging from this catalog, the opening of Philip Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone’s new MoMA building was the moment that New York City became the world center of modernism. This volume captures an exceptionally-detailed snapshot of the era.
- Trustees, Committees and Staff
- Preface
- Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Art:
- American Popular Art
- American Paintings Of The Late 19th Century
- European Painting Of The Late 19th Century
- 20th Century Painting: includes black and white samples from Jean Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Prendergast, Henri-Matisse, Raoul Dufy, Andre Derain, Balthus, Amedeo Modigliani, Maurice Utrillo, Chaim Soutine, Oskar Kokoscka, John Marin, Arthur Davies, Maurice Sterne, Louis Eilshemius, Bernard Karfiol, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Alexander Brook, Niles Spencer, Georges Rouault, Max Weber, Emil Nolde, Ernst Kirchner, Max Beckmann, William Gropper, Edward Hopper, Charles Sheeler, Thomas Benton, Reginald Marsh, Orozco, Diego Rivera, Siqueiros, Pablo Picasso (well represented), Georges Braque (well represented), Fernand Leger (well represented), Juan Gris, Feininger, Marcel Duchamp, Balla, Joseph Stella, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Klee, Chagall, Giorgio de Chirico, Man Ray, Salvidor Dali, Tanguy, Roy, Magritte, Masson, Arp, Miro, Dove, O'Keefe, Blume, Guglielmi, Bombois, Cauchant, Prendergast, Hart, etc.
- Paintings By Children
- 21 Prints
- 20th Century Sculpture & Constructions: 59 photographs including Calder, Ferren, Noguchi, Moore, Arp, Giacometti, Brancusi, Gabo, Pevsner, Lipshitz, Gargallo, Duchamp, Lachaise, Despiau, and more.
- Photography:
- Seven American Photographers: 14 Photographs by Ralph Steiner, Walker Evans, Berenice Abbot, Ansel Adams, Brett Weston, Man Ray, and Harold E. Edgerton.
- Architecture and Industrial Art:
- Houses And Housing: 63 Photographs And Drawings by Frank Lloyd Wright, The Modern House, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Luvwrkin, Alvar Alto, Walter Gropius, William Lescaze, Richard Neutra (Superplywood Model House), Edward D. Stone, Y. B. Yeon, A. E. Doyle, Paul Nelson, Buckminster Fuller (Dymaxion House), PWA, Large Public Housing project in Europe and America, FSA, Bauhaus, and others.
- Industrial Design: 5 Images of Le Corbusier, Mies, Marcel Breuer, Aalto, and Buckminster Fuller designs.
- The Film
- A Review Of Film History In A Cycle Of 70 Films: 31 Stills from "Conquest of the Pole", "Merry Frolics of Satan", "Land of Toys", "Sunrise", Jazz Singer", Smiling Madam Beudet", Walt Disney's "Skeleton Dance", Leger's Chaplin in "Ballet Mecanique", "Crazy Ray", "Robin Hood", "Moana of the South Seas", and others.
- Georges Melies, Magician and Film Pioneer.
- Designs for an Abstract Film: A Pre-War Experiment..
- Index
- Advertisements:12-page, detailed catalog of Films, Publications, Color Reproductions and Circulating Exhibitions available from the by Museum of Modern Art. An exceptionally useful section of advertising if I do say so myself.