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The late Carolyn Lanchner was a longstanding curator at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Fernand Leger (1881-1955) is famed for his mechanical-tubular Cubism of the 1920s and for the Futurist-inspired film "Ballet Mecanique, " his collaboration with composer George Antheil. Leger incorporated elements from a wide range of modernist artistic movements, including Fauvism, Neoplasticism, Surrealism, Neoclassicism and even Social Realism. This volume includes 35 color images, a commentary by Carolyn Lanchner, a former curator of paint...

Richard Thomson is the Watson Gordon Professor of Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Part of the "MoMA Artist Series", this book explores the works of Jasper Johns. It features works which are accompanied by a short essay that places the work in its historical moment in the development of modern art and the artists own life.

Part of the "MoMA Artist Series", this book explores Robert Rauschenberg works. It features works which are accompanied by a short essay that places the work in its historical moment in the development of modern art and the artists own life.

Part of the "MoMA Artist Series", this book explores the works of Roy Lichtenstein. It features works which are accompanied by a short essay that places the work in its historical moment in the development of modern art and the artists own life.

Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro and Andy Warhol each significantly shaped the development of art in the twentieth century. These Modern masters are the subjects of four small books, the first volumes in a series featuring important artists in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Each book presents a single artist and guides readers through a dozen of his most memorable achievements. Works are reproduced in color and accompanied ...

Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro and Andy Warhol each significantly shaped the development of art in the twentieth century. These Modern masters are the subjects of four small books, the first volumes in a series featuring important artists in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Each book presents a single artist and guides readers through a dozen of his most memorable achievements. Works are reproduced in color and accompanied ...

Willem de Kooning was a pioneering figure of Abstract Expressionism, one of the most influential champions of the dynamic, process-driven painting that brought New York to the center of the art world in the 1940s and 1950s. This new volume in the MoMA artist series examines ten of de Kooning's most memorable achievements as seen in pieces from The Museum's substantial collection of his work, including paintings and drawings from his "Woman "se...

Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro and Andy Warhol each significantly shaped the development of art in the 20th century. These books present the stories behind masterpieces of the modern canon and the contributions of individual artists to the history of modern art.

Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro and Andy Warhol each significantly shaped the development of art in the twentieth century. These Modern masters are the subjects of four small books, the first volumes in a series featuring important artists in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Each book presents a single artist and guides readers through a dozen of his most memorable achievements. Works are reproduced in color and accompanied ...

The elegant and exquisitely shaped sculptures of Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) are easily among the most iconic sculptures created in the twentieth century. "There are those idiots who define my work as abstract, " he once said, "yet what they call abstract is what is most realistic. What is real is not the appearance but the idea, the essence of things." This volume includes 35 color images, a commentary by Carolyn Lanchner, a former curato...

Featuring artwork from The Museum of Modern Art's extraordinary collection, each volume in the MoMA Artist Series guides readers through one artist's most memorable achievements, explaining their significance and placing them in context among the ground-breaking innovations of their time. The second collection presents the pivotal work made in the second half of the twentieth century by six American artists: Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Ro...

Paul Cezanne died in 1906, only six years into the twentieth century, but he is widely considered the founding figure of modernist painting, the artist whom Pablo Picasso called "the father of us all." This new volume in the MoMA artist series guides readers through ten memorable works by Cezanne in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. His iconic paintings %%The Bather%% and %%Boy in a Red Vest%% are featured, along with still lifes and...