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http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262112582/ Thank you!

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David

Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of Modern Art
Sybil Gordon Kantor

Growing up with the twentieth century, Alfred Barr (1902-1981), founding
director of the Museum of Modern Art, harnessed the cataclysm that was
modernism. In this book--part intellectual biography, part institutional
history--Sybil Gordon Kantor tells the story of the rise of modern art in
America and of the man responsible for its triumph. Following the trajectory
of Barr's career from the 1920s through the 1940s, Kantor penetrates the
myths, both positive and negative, that surround Barr and his achievements.

Sybil Gordon Kantor is an independent scholar living in Columbus, Ohio, and
Lugano, Switzerland.


7 x 9, 472 pp., 83 illus., cloth, ISBN 0-262-11258-2

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