NEW BOOKS
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Picasso: Girl Before a Mirror
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| By Anne Umland |
Girl Before a Mirror by Pablo Picasso takes the traditional artistic theme of a woman before her mirror and reinvents it in radically modern terms. In this volume of the new MoMA One on One series, curator Anne Umland explores the circumstances of its creation: the artist's private life, his practice as a sculptor, and his concern, at age 51, about his relevance and artistic legacy.
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Rousseau: The Dream
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| By Ann Temkin |
The Dream by Henri Rousseau, the artist's last major work, is a surreal juxtaposition of the exotic and the domestic that exemplifies his uncanny exactitude. In this volume of the new MoMA One on One series, curator Ann Temkin guides readers in deciphering this mysterious painting, illuminating its significance and placing it in the development of modern art and in Rousseau's own life.
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Wyeth: Christina's World
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| By Laura Hoptman |
Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth was simultaneously one of the most well-loved and scorned works of the century, igniting heated arguments about parochialism, sentimentality, kitsch, and art-world elitism. In this volume of the new MoMA One on One series, curator Laura Hoptman revisits the genesis of the painting and the mystery that continues to surround it.
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Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan
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| Edited by Lynne Cooke, Mark Godfrey, and Christian Rattemeyer |
Published to accompany the first large-scale retrospective of Alighiero Boetti's work outside Italy in over a decade, this volume presents the most comprehensive overview of the artist's career to date. Covering all periods of Boetti's broad oeuvre—including early sculptural experiments associated with Arte Povera, ephemeral Conceptual projects of the 1970s, and monumental embroideries and tapestries fabricated up to his death in 1994—this richly illustrated catalogue brings together leading international critics and curators, each examining a different aspect of Boetti's achievements.
Exhibition on view from July 1 through October 1, 2012.
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COMING SOON
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Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000 |
By Juliet Kinchin and Aidan O'Conner. With essays by Tanya Harrod, Medea Hoch, Francis Luca, Amy Ogata, Maria Paola Maino, and David Senior
Available July |
Century of the Child brings together an unprecedented collection of objects and concepts from around the world in order to investigate the fascinating confluence of modern design and childhood. The wide-ranging ideas described here—from the beginning of the kindergarten movement to wartime propaganda to innovations in playground design—illuminate how progressive design has shaped the physical and intellectual development of children and, conversely, how models of children's play have inspired designers' creative experimentation.
Exhibition on view from July 29 through November 5, 2012.
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| Baggage |
Text by Samuil Marshak. Illustrations by Vladimir Lebedev. Afterword by Sarah Suzuki
Available July |
In the 1920s, avant-garde Russian writers and artists worked together with fervent dedication to create a new type of children's literature. This whimsical picture book, first published in 1926, is one of numerous collaborations by artist and illustrator Vladimir Lebedev and poet, translator, and children's author Samuil Marshak, many of which are in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. This facsimile edition reproduces the original book in size, shape, and design, with new English translations in place of the Russian.
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Walker Evans: American Photographs
Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Edition |
Essay by Lincoln Kirstein. Note by Sarah Meister
Available August |
More than any other artist, Walker Evans invented the images of an essential America that we have long accepted as fact. First published in 1938, American Photographs has been out of print for long periods since then, and often unavailable outside libraries and rare-book stores. This 75th-anniversary edition re-creates the original edition as closely as possible with the aid of new digital printing technology, making the landmark publication available for a new generation.
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| Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist's Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets |
By Ron Magliozzi, with contributions by Edwin Carels and the Quay Brothers
Available August |
The Quay Brothers are internationally renowned moving-image artists and designers who, for over 30 years, have been at the vanguard of stop-motion puppet animation and live-action movie making. This richly illustrated publication, published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, presents the Quay Brothers' full oeuvre, comprising previously unseen moving-image works and a little-known body of works on paper, including graphic design, drawings, typography, and notebooks for films.
Exhibition on view from August 12, 2012 through January 7, 2013.
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