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20TH CENTURY MOVEMENTS

PUBLISHER
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 10.5 in. / 512 pgs / 400 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2010 p. 74   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9780870707711 TRADE
List Price: $65.00 CAD $87.00

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"We cannot accept that women somehow are just less creative than men, less intelligent, less innovative, less thoughtful, or less important as articulators of modern human experience. It is unhistorical. It would also be completely unmodernist to do so."
Griselda Pollock

GRISELDA POLLOCK on “The Missing Future: MoMA and Modern Women”

STARR FIGURA on Russian women artists and the avant-garde book

T’AI LIN SMITH on Bauhaus women

SALLY STEIN on women photographers between the wars

SALLY BERGER on the legacy of Maya Deren

PAOLA ANTONELLI on designer Irma Boom

LUIS PEREZ-ORAMAS on Lygia Clark, Gego and Mira Schendel

YUKO HASEGAWA on Japanese performance art of the 1950s through 1990s

GRETCHEN WAGNER on 30 years of zines by women

ROXANA MAROCI on collage, montage and assemblage in contemporary portraiture

HUEY COPELAND on art “In the Wake of the Negress”

HELEN MOLESWORTH on “How to Install Art as a Feminist”

CAROL ARMSTRONG on “Women on Paper”

BEATRIZ COLOMINA on women architects

Voted "Outstanding Catalogue Based on a Permanent Collection" by the Association of Art Museum Curators, 2010.

  

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK

Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art

Edited by Cornelia Butler, Alexandra Schwartz. Introductions by Cornelia Butler, Griselda Pollock, Aruna D'Souza.

Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern ArtThis landmark survey represents the first effort by a major North American museum to examine its collection by highlighting the production of modern and contemporary women artists. Featuring essays by nearly 50 writers, including both MoMA curators and outside scholars, among them many of the strongest voices in current research on art and gender, this groundbreaking publication presents a variety of generational and cultural perspectives. Modern Women focuses on a diverse range of artists active from the late nineteenth century to the present whose works span the spectrum of mediums and genres in the Museum's collection. Organized chronologically into three sections—“Early Modernism,” “Mid-Century” and “Contemporary”—the book comprises both long and short essays emphasizing new research on women artists within these historical time periods. Subjects include women at the Bauhaus, design collaborations, photographers between the wars, the legacy of Maya Deren, Latin American artists, performance art, architecture, land art, “Riot Grrrls,” African American artists, collage and assemblage in contemporary portraiture as well as essays on individual artists such as Lillian Gish, Sybil Andrews, Diane Arbus, Ida Lupino, Hanne Darboven, Bridget Riley, Ana Mendieta, Louise Bourgeois, Adrian Piper, Nan Goldin, Zaha Hadid, Janet Cardiff and Lin Tianmiao. Heavily illustrated with works from the collection, Modern Women constructs a conversation between past considerations of MoMA's collection and current feminist narratives of art history, putting these varied modes of exploration in productive dialogue.
PRAISE AND REVIEWS

New York Magazine, The Cut

Sarah Spellings

Now being reprinted by the museum, the book is a compilation of essays by nearly 50 writers on the works of female artists spanning Early Modernism to Contemporary art - from being a woman in the Bauhaus to performance art. Artists include Frida Kahlo, Diane Arbus, and Nan Goldin.

Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art

STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

FROM THE BOOK
Much more than an exhibition catalog, a collection catalog or a feminist art survey, this long overdue and urgently needed landmark publication features more than 200 women artists, architects and designers spanning from the late nineteenth century to the present. Edited by Cornelia Butler and Alexandra Schwartz, with introductions by Butler, Griselda Pollock and Aruna D’Souza, Modern Women features essays by nearly 50 writers, including both MoMA curators and outside scholars—among them many of the strongest voices in current research on art and gender—presenting a groundbreaking variety of generational and cultural perspectives.

FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/24/2018

Modern Women, going, going, strong

Modern Women, going, going, strong

Frida Kahlo's "Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair" (1940) is reproduced from Modern Women, MoMA's essential 512-page survey of women artists in the Museum's collection. Originally published in 2010, the book immediately sold out. In 2016, we received this much-anticipated reprint featuring essays by nearly 50 writers, and work by more than 200 pioneers of their forms, from Aino Aalto to Eva Zeisel, Berenice Abbott to Carrie Mae Weems, Marina Abramovic to Andrea Zittel. Now, as we celebrate this landmark publication during Women's History Month, 2018, we are down to our last 300 copies. Get it while you can! It's still the ultimate resource. continue to blog


FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/25/2018

Women's History in 'Modern Women'

Modern Women, Greta von Nessen

Swedish ex-pat Greta von Nessen's 1951 Anywhere Lamp is reproduced from Modern Women, MoMA's monumental survey of women artists and designers from the late 1800s to present. Von Nessen's reputation "remains subsumed by that of her husband, Walter, a German émigré who established an innovative architectural lighting company in the late 1920s," essayist Juliet Kinchin writes. "Yet it was Greta who single-handedly revived and developed Nessen Studio in New York after World War II, and her ingenious Anywhere design remains the firm's best-known product." Bam! continue to blog


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