a chronicle of the Museum of Modern Art Bee, Harriet Schoenholz. Elligott, Michelle. text nyu New York Museum of Modern Art 2004 monographic eng

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256 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. "This volume chronicles the Museum's story from its opening, ten days after the stock market crash of 1929, in a few rented rooms in a midtown office building, up to the present day, in its new building on West Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth streets. The book presents a pictorial and documentary review of each year, and each important period, of the Museum's history. It tells the story of how The Museum of Modern Art, New York, began as a small set of art galleries inaugurated by three ladies of means who had a passion for modern art. Through a selection of photographs, official documents, letters, quotations, newspaper clippings, cartoons, and other ephemera, the complex and multilayered history of the Museum unfolds in a visual march through time, revealing the extraordinary vision of a determined group of individuals who had the ability and courage to translate their vision into reality."--BOOK JACKET. Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Introduction / Harriet S. Bee and Michelle Elligott -- 1929-1939 : the first ten years -- 1940-1953 : road to victory -- 1954-1964 : masters of modern art -- 1965-1972 : word and image -- 1973-1984 : transformations -- 1985-1994 : allegories of modernism -- 1995-2004 : modern contemporary. specialized edited by Harriet Schoenholz Bee and Michelle Elligott. Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) History Museos de arte Colecciones de 1929 al 2004 Estados Unidos 708.1471 SC365a 0870700014 (hbk.) UKM 040628 20220326193245.0 5066250