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Modern and Contemporary Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hollein, Max (2019)

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Since its beginning nearly one hundred fifty years ago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been a vital center for the display and collection of the art of its time. As the repository of an encyclopedic collection spanning five thousand years and myriad regions, The Met presents modern and contemporary art in a richly suggestive context. This beautifully illustrated volume, like the Museum’s galleries, gathers paintings, sculptures, photographs, decorative arts, drawings, and works in other media by celebrated artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, juxtaposing them to suggest historical antecedents and evolving cultural practices. From acknowledged masterworks by Arbus, Brancusi, Demuth, Duchamp, Gris, Hepworth, Hopper, Léger, Nevelson, O’Keeffe, Picasso, Pollock, Rivera, Steichen, and Warhol to important newer works by El Anatsui, Mark Bradford, Vija Celmins, David Hammons, William Kentridge, Kerry James Marshall, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, and Kara Walker, this book delves into the magnificent modern holdings of a beloved museum.

Table of contents

A Museum of the World—and the Future

Modern and Contemporary Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Acknowledgments

Index of Artists

Photograph Credits

About the authors

Max Hollein is Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Authors: Max Hollein

Artists: Arbus, Diane (American, 1923–1971) | Bearden, Romare (American, 1911–1988) | Becher, Bernd (German, born 1931) | Becher, Hilla (German, born 1934) | Beckmann, Max (German, 1884–1950) | Benton, Thomas Hart | Boccioni, Umberto (Italian, 1882–1916) | Brancusi, Constantin (French, born Romania, 1876–1957) | Braque, Georges (French, 1882–1963) | Calder, Alexander | Carrington, Leonora | Celmins, Vija (American painter and sculptor, born 1939) | Choucair, Saloua Raouda (Lebanese, born 1916) | Cornell, Joseph | Dalí, Salvador (Spanish, 1904–1989) | Davis, Stuart (American, 1892–1964) | De Chirico, Giorgio (Italian, 1888–1978) | De Kooning, Willem (American, born the Netherlands, 1904–1997) | Demuth, Charles (American, 1883–1935) | Dix, Otto (German, 1891–1969) | Dove, Arthur (American, 1880–1946) | Duchamp, Marcel (French, 1887–1968) | Dupas, Jean (French, 1882–1964) | Eggleston, William (American, born 1939) | Evans, Walker (American, 1903–1975) | Frankenthaler, Helen | Freud, Lucian (British, born Germany, 1922–2011) | Gazzar, cAbd al-Hadi al- (Egyptian, 1925–1966) | Giacometti, Alberto (Swiss, 1901–1966) | Gorky, Arshile (American, born Armenia, 1904–1948) | Gris, Juan (Spanish, 1887–1927) | Guston, Philip | Hartley, Marsden (American, 1877–1943) | Hepworth, Barbara (British, 1903–1975) | Hoffmann, Josef (Austrian, 1870–1956) | Hopper, Edward (American, 1882–1967) | Johns, Jasper (American, born 1930) | Kandinsky, Vasily (French, born Russia, 1866–1944) | Katz, Alex | Kelly, Ellsworth | Kender, Janos (Hungarian, 1937–1983) | Kentridge, William (South African, born 1955) | Kiefer, Anselm (German, born 1945) | Klee, Paul (German, 1879–1940) | Klein, Yves (French, 1928–1962) | Kline, Franz (American, 1910–1962) | Léger, Fernand (French, 1881–1955) | Lam, Wifredo (Cuban, 1902–1982) | Lawrence, Jacob (American, 1917–2000) | Lichtenstein, Roy | Lissitzky, El (Russian, 1890-1941) | Louis, Morris (American, 1912–1962) | Marisol (Marisol Esobar) (American, born France, 1930) | Matisse, Henri (French, 1869–1954) | Matta (Roberto Matta Echaurren) (Chilean, 1911–2002) | Miró, Joan (Spanish, 1893–1983) | Modigliani, Amedeo (Italian, 1884–1920) | Moholy-Nagy, László (American, born Hungary, 1895–1946) | Motherwell, Robert (American, 1915–1991) | Newman, Barnett (American, 1905–1970) | Noguchi, Isamu (American, 1904–1988) | O'Keeffe, Georgia (America, 1887–1986) | Penn, Irving (American, 1917–2009) | Picasso, Pablo (Spanish, 1881–1973) | Pippin, Horace | Pollock, Jackson (American, 1912–1956) | Prince, Richard (American, born 1949) | Rauschenberg, Robert (American, 1925–2008) | Reinhardt, Ad | Rietveld, Gerrit (Dutch, 1888–1964) | Ringgold, Faith (American, born 1930) | Rivera, Diego (Mexican, 1886–1957) | Rothko, Mark (American, born Russia, 1903–1970) | Schiele, Egon (Austrian, 1890–1918) | Schwitters, Kurt | Sherman, Cindy (American, born 1954) | Shunk, Harry (German, born 1942–2006) | Smith, David (American, 1906–1965) | Sottsass, Ettore (Italian, born Austria 1917) | Steichen, Edward (American, born Luxembourg, 1879–1973) | Stieglitz, Alfred (American, 1864–1946) | Still, Clyfford (American, 1904–1980) | Struth, Thomas (German, born 1954) | Tanguy, Yves (American, born France, 1900–1955) | Wall, Jeff (Canadian, born 1946) | Warhol, Andy (American, 1930–1987) | Wood, Grant | Woodruff, Hale

Keywords: Contemporary art | El Anatsui | Modern art

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