Kramer, Hilton,

The triumph of modernism : the art world, 1987-2005 / Hilton Kramer. - xiii, 368 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Modernism and abstraction -- Kandinsky and the birth of abstraction -- Mondrian and mysticism : "my long search is over" -- Art, revolution, and Kazimir Malevich -- Abstraction and utopia -- Abstraction in America : the first generation -- Was Rothko an abstract painter? -- Jackson Pollock and the New York school -- Modernism and its critics -- Clement Greenberg in the forties -- Clement Greenberg and the Cold War -- T. J. Clark and the Marxist critique of modern painting -- Rembrandt as Warhol : Svetlana Alpers's "enterprise" -- Modernism and after -- Richard Serra at MOMA -- The death of Andy Warhol -- How good was Gauguin? -- John Szarkowski's "history of photographic pictures" -- Reflections on matisse -- Philip Johnson's brilliant career -- Duchamp and his legacy -- Leger's modernism -- Bonnard and "the stupidities" -- A gallery chronicle -- Modernism and its institutions -- Modernism and its institutions -- Has success spoiled the art museum? -- Tate modern inside and out : the museum as culture mall -- The man who created MOMA -- Does abstract art have a future? I. II. III. IV.

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Modernism (Art)
Art, Modern--20th century
Art, Modern--21st century

N6494.M64 / K73 2006

709.04