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Andrew Wyeth: Christina's World by HOPTMAN, LAURA
Category: Art and Design | Series: MOMA One on One Series
Each volume in this new series offers an in-depth exploration of one major work in MoMA's collection. Through a lively illustrated essay by a MoMA curator that examines the work in detail, the publication delves into aspects of the artist's oeuvre and places the work in a broader social and art-historic ...Show more
Andy Warhol: Campbell's Soup Cans - MoMA One on One Series by Andy Warhol (Artist); Starr Figura (Text by)
Category: Art and Design | Series: MoMA One on One Ser.
In 1962, when he painted Campbell's Soup Cans, Andy Warhol was not yet a household name, and Pop art, the movement with which he is now identified, was still on the cusp of becoming a phenomenon. With the Soup Cans - thirty-two nearly identical canvases, each one featuring a different variety of Campbel ...Show more
Cindy Sherman: Centerfold (Untitled #96) - MoMA One on One Series by Cindy Sherman + Gwen Allen
Category: Photography | Series: MoMA One on One Ser.
In 1981 Cindy Sherman was commissioned to contribute a special project to Artforum magazine. Given two facing pages, she chose to explore the pornographic centerfold, creating 12 largescale horizontal images of herself appearing as various young women, often reclining, in private, melancholic moments of ...Show more
Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction Blue by Samantha Friedman
Category: Art and Design | Series: MoMA One on One Ser.
During the 1920s, Georgia O'Keeffe became widely-known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, and these canvases arguably remain her most iconic today. But she regularly returned to abstraction-the language of her breakthrough drawings from the 1910s. Executed in 1927, Abstraction Blue retains the glowi ...Show more
Kahlo: Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair by Jodi Roberts, Frida Kahlo
Category: Art and Design | Series: MoMA One on One Ser.
An accessible and in-depth study of Frida Kahlo, one of the most beloved artists in MoMA's collection. Though the Surrealists adopted Frida Kahlo as one of their own, the painter maintained that she did 'not know if my paintings are Surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the most frank expressio ...Show more
Lange - Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California by Dorothea Lange (By (photographer)); Sarah Hermanson Meister (Text by)
Category: Photography | Series: MoMA One on One Ser.
The United States was in the midst of the Depression when photographer Dorothea Lange, a portrait-studio owner, began documenting the country_s rampant poverty. Her depictions of unemployed men wandering the streets of San Francisco gained the attention of one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt_s New De ...Show more
Oppenheim: Object by Carolyn Lanchner
Category: Art | Series: MOMA One on One Series
In 1936, invited by Andre Breton to contribute to an exhibition of Surrealist objects, Meret Oppenheim decided to act upon a cafe conversation she had recently had with Pablo Picasso and his then-companion Dora Maar. Commenting on a fur-covered bracelet that Oppenheim had made for the designer Schiapare ...Show more
Pollock? - One - Number 31 1950 by Stuckey Charles; Ann Lanchester
Category: Art | Series: MoMA One on One Ser.
In the late 1940s, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), now recognized as one of the most important Abstract Expressionist artists, began experimenting with a new method of painting that involved dripping, flinging and pouring paint onto a canvas laid flat directly on the floor. This process engaged his entire ...Show more
Romare Bearden: Patchwork Quilt by Esther Adler
Category: Art and Photography | Series: MoMA One on One Ser.
Romare Bearden's art speaks powerfully of specific, often disregarded, life experiences while making them broadly accessible. Patchwork Quilt (1970), a monumental composition dominated by a prone figure and bands of fabric unfolding across the composition, was acquired by The Museum of Modern Art the ye ...Show more
Saar: Black Girl’s Window by Christophe Cherix (Editor); Esther Adler (Text by); Betye Saar (Artist)
Category: Art and Design | Series: MoMA One on One Ser.
New in MoMA's 'One on One' series, this book focuses on Betye Saar's Black Girl's Window (1969) and a selection of the artist's prints from the 1960s and early 1970s. Betye Saar made Black Girl's Window in 1969. It is a deeply autobiographical picture that alluded to her African-American heritage along ...Show more
Self-Portrait with Two Flowers by Paula Modersohn-Becker (Artist); Diane Radycki
Category: Art | Series: MoMA One on One Ser.
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) painted her last self-portrait in 1907, while she was in her third trimester. In the painting she gazes straight at the viewer, holding up two flowers--symbols representing the creativity and procreativity of women artists--and resting a protective hand atop her swelli ...Show more
Shigetaka Kurita: Emoji by Paul Galloway
Category: Graphic Design | Series: MoMA One on One Ser.
This latest volume in the MoMA One on One series introduces the original set of 176 emoji for mobile phones and pagers released in 1999 by the Japanese mobile phone company NTT DOCOMO.
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