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Author Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981.

Title Defining modern art : selected writings of Alfred H. Barr, Jr. / edited by Irving Sandler and Amy Newman ; with an introduction by Irving Sandler
Published New York : Abrams, 1986
New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1986

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Description 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
Contents The visionary. "Boston is modern art pauper" ; Wellesley and modernism ; A modern art questionnaire ; The Necco factory ; A course of five lectures on modern art ; A new art museum ; A new museum ; Modern architecture : international exhibition : foreword ; Modern and "modern" ; Cubism and abstract art : introduction ; Chart of modern art ; A brief guide to the exhibition of fantastic art, Dada, surrealism ; Bauhaus 1919-1928 : preface -- The critic / historian. Russian diary ; The LEF and Soviet art ; Sergei Michailovitch Eisenstein ; Otto Dix ; Paul Klee : introduction ; Nationalism in German films ; Art in the Third Reich : preview, 1933 ; Italian sources of three great traditions of European painting ; Twentieth-century Italian art : early futurism ; Matisse, Picasso, and the crisis of 1907 -- The statesman. Research and publication in art museums ; A symposium : the state of American art ; Is modern art communistic? ; Artistic freedom ; The Museum of Modern Art's record on American artists ; The new American painting as shown in eight European countries, 1958-1959 : intruduction ; Tastemaking ; The pied-billed grebe ; The loyalty oath ; The miracle ; City's resort for wild fowl ; American conformity
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [274]-292
Subject Art, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Art, Modern -- 20th century.
Author Newman, Amy, 1949-
Sandler, Irving, 1925-2018.
LC no. 86003357
ISBN 0810907151