Cubism and Abstract Art
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1936.
First edition, in a second state dust jacket with printed arrow from "Machine Esthetic" to "Futurism". 249, [1] pp with 223 monochrome reproductions and errata slip at copyright. Bound in publisher's tan cloth lettered in black and red. Near Fine with slight tanning to cloth, light wear at spine ends, foxing to fore-edge, former owner's name on front free endpaper. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with fading and tanning to spine, shallow chips to crown and upper corner of front panel, former owner's name mostly erased on front panel, splitting to front flap joint and rear joint, and closed tearing at edges. The art historian and first appointed MoMA director's collection of essays on the history and development of Cubism and Abstractionism in the early 20th century published in conjunction with the groundbreaking exhibition of the same name held from March 2nd-April 19th, 1936. The acclaimed exhibition of nearly 400 works displayed works ranging from African sculpture, Neo-Impressionists paintings from Seurat, paintings from the dawn of Cubism by Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris, works of Fauvism, Dadaist objects, Bauhaus sculptures and early works of Surrealism. Barr believed that abstraction was an inherent element in the development of modern art and created his now iconic diagram featured on the front cover of the dust jacket. Provenance of Michael Goodman, professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley from 1927 until 1971.
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