Inventing the Modern: Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped The Museum of Modern Art

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Ann Temkin Romy Silver-Kohn

Inventing the Modern

Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped The Museum of Modern Art

Ann Temkin, Romy Silver-Kohn, Anna Deavere Smith

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Museum of Modern Art
15 October 2024

Architecture; Biography: arts & entertainment

Profiles of fourteen women who transformed the country's foremost modern art museum in its fledgling years.

Founded in 1929, The Museum of Modern Art owes much of its success to a group of remarkable women who shaped its future during its first decades. Because there were few precedents for a museum devoted to modern art, MoMA was free to invent itself without the requirements-professional experience, competitive salaries-that traditionally limited an art institution's jobs to men. At MoMA women were able to create and define their roles as founders, patrons, curators, and department directors, changing, as they did so, the course of art history. In this volume, readers are transported to the grit and glamour of midtown Manhattan in the 1930s and '40s through profiles of fourteen pioneering figures who made an indelible mark not only on MoMA but on the culture of their time.

Foreword by: Anna Deavere Smith
Edited by: Ann Temkin, Romy Silver-Kohn
Imprint: Museum of Modern Art
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 160mm,
Weight: 960g
ISBN: 9781633450790
ISBN 10: 1633450791
Pages: 424
Publication Date: 15 October 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword by Anna Deavere Smith Introduction by Ann Temkin and Romy Silver-Kohn 1. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller by Mary Schmidt Campbell 2. Lillie P. Bliss by Kate Walbert 3. Mary Quinn Sullivan by Nell Irvin Painter 4. Margaret Scolari Barr by Lanka Tattersall 5. Ernestine Fantl Carter by Juliet Kinchin 6. Iris Barry by Farran Smith Nehme 7. Elodie Courter by Romy Silver-Kohn 8. Sarah Newmeyer by Sloane Crosley 9. Dorothy Miller by Mary Gabriel 10. Dorothy Dudley by Roberta Smith 11. Nancy Newhall by Brenda Wineapple 12. Elizabeth Mock by Jennifer Gray 13. Olga Guggenheim by Ann Temkin 14. Jean Volkmer by Anne Umland

Ann Temkin is the MarieJosée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Romy Silver-Kohn is a researcher in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Anna Deavere Smith is an actress and playwright credited with creating a new form of documentary theater. She is a professor at the Tisch School of the Arts and the founding director of New York University's Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue.

Reviews for Inventing the Modern: Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped The Museum of Modern Art

"The women behind The Museum of Modern Art are a disparate lot: plucky, unassuming, discerning, ubiquitous, invisible. Their stories are--in these finely honed portraits--universally thrilling. A volume of rich, revelatory chronicles, from Mary Quinn Sullivan's improbable downtown shopping spree to Elizabeth Mock's embrace of modern architecture to Olga Guggenheim's decision to replace two Monets lost in the Museum's 1958 fire with, well, two Monets.--Stacy Schiff ""Pulitzer-Prize winning author"""