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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Museum of Modern Art"”.
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Stitches on Display: Embroidery Exhibited by the Museum of Modern Art
Engaging with both the materiality and visuality of the embroidered artworks by Marguerite Zorach and Elaine Reichek, this thesis analyzes the material acknowledgement, or lack thereof, of the embroidery medium in both the artists' own motivations and how the Museum of Modern Art represents and …
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Rethinking the modern : imagining the future of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
The thesis seeks to explore the implications of the emergence of the digital media as a new art form on the museum space. The museum as an institution has faced some ideological and philosophical contradictions in recent times. Economically, heightened competition for dwindling funds has begun to …
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Marketing the aesthetic encounter : the role of consumption in the design of the new Museum of Modern Art
In recent years, museum architecture has been extensively subjected to cultural critique. Perceived as an instance of architects' stylistic yearnings, reflecting control strategies, promoting institutions' economic and cultural power, catering for education through forms that increasingly associate …
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Art Criticism, Scholarly Interpretation, and Curatorial Intent: A Reassessment of the 1998 Jackson Pollock Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art
In 1998, the Museum of Modern Art held a retrospective exhibition of artworks by Jackson Pollock. Curators Kirk Varnedoe and Pepe Karmel worked in an art historical context that had been significantly shaped by the early critical writings by Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg. The curators’ …
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Design as a context for research : the design of a museum of modern art as a vehicle for studying Alvar Aalto's work
The premise of this thesis is that there is valuable knowledge embedded in the buildings and related work of an architect that can only be understood in the context of some specific design setting. This thesis is an inquiry into the work of Alvar Aalto conducted through the process of two separate …
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The spatial and temporal diffusion of museums in New York City, 1910-2010
The aim of this dissertation is to understand and analyze the museum location decision, defined as where museum founders choose to establish or relocate their institution. The empirical case is the museum population of New York City from 1910-2010. In three substantive chapters, I explore this …
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William Eggleston's Guide To The Suburban South
… Eggleston, had his first solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. This exhibition was the first dedicated to a single photographer working in color. While Eggleston’s use of color was groundbreaking, his depictions of contemporary southern life were similarly exceptional. …
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The House In The Museum Garden: Targeting Domestic Consumers In MoMA’s Architecture And Design Exhibitions
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) promoted modern art and design through exhibitions. Exhibitions of the 1930s were marked by politically and socially minded intentions that aimed to solve modern problems through modern solutions. This continued into the early 1940s, though a shift occurred in the …
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Criterios e indicadores de calidad para la implantación de cursos online en museos y centros de arte contemporáneo
… de cursos online para museos y centros de arte contemporáneo. Para ello, se realiza una búsqueda previa de la oferta educativa online en un total de doscientas setenta instituciones internacionales, entre las que se incluyen diecisiete españolas, una de cada Comunidad Autónoma. Se analizan …
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Framing Latin American Art: Artists, Critics, Institutions and the Configuration of a Regional Identity
… investigates how non-academic agents (i.e. artists, curators, and institutions) helped construct the current canon of Latin American art. It takes as case studies key exhibitions held in Brazil in order to examine how the central concepts of anthropophagy, geometric abstraction, and the …
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An eye for vulgarity : how MoMA saw color through Wild Bill's lens
This thesis is an examination of the 1976 Museum of Modern Art exhibition of color photographs by William Eggleston-the second one-man show of color photography in the museum's history- with particular attention to the exhibition monograph, William Eggleston's Guide. From hundreds of slides, MoMA …
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Essential Caretaking for Artists with Disabilities: Exploring the Overlooked Histories of Hazel Knapp and Grandma Moses
<p>This thesis explores the intersection of disability studies and art history, addressing the underrepresentation of disability in scholarship, especially concerning medical sociology and caretaking. Focusing on two early-twentieth-century self-taught American artists, Hazel Knapp (1908–95), who …
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"Indigenous" -- "Vernacular" : negotiating an American history for modernism through the lens of the architectural exhibition
After modernism was conceptualized as the "International Style" at the Museum of Modern Art in 1932, historians and critics sought to legitimate American architecture through the construction of a linear ancestry which placed the beginnings of modernism in the nineteenth century, on American soil. …
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Curatorship and Post-Duchampian Art in Transnational Contexts
This research examines the role of the artist Marcel Duchamp as a curator, his legacy in the field of curatorship and how the curatorial procedures engendered by him can be transposed to contemporaneity. It presents the dynamics of Post-Duchampian art as those artistic manifestations that make …
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Experimental logistics : extra-architectural projects at SOM, 1933-1986
In 1950, the Museum of Modern Art exhibited for the first time the work of an architectural office instead than a single designer. The exhibition's poster child was Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), billed in MoMA's press release as a firm driven by both the "discipline of modern architecture" and …
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Sketches Count: The Mies Van Der Rohe’s Dirksen Courthouse Archive Redrawn
… in Chicago built in 1964 is arguably one of the most significant buildings in the history of judicial architecture in the United States and abroad because of its transformative role in the formulation of the conventions underlying contemporary courthouse design. Archived in the Mies van …
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Ideas as Interiors: Interior Design in the United States 1930-1965
During the first decades of the twentieth century, Americans grappled with the idea of what it meant to be a modern society. As in other periods and places, arts, architecture and design played a significant role in expressing and exploring the issues and concerns of the day. In the period 1930 to …
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Native American Chic: The Marketing Of Native Americans In New York Between The World Wars
… René d'Harnoncourt - this dissertation analyzes museum and gallery exhibitions of Native American art mounted in the United States, particularly New York City, during the interwar period, and documents the immediate and lasting impact these shows and their promotion had on the emergence of …
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Bloomsbury's Byzantium and the Writing of Modern Art
<p>“Bloomsbury’s Byzantium and the Writing of Modern Art” examines the role of Byzantine art in Bloomsbury art critics Roger Fry’s and Clive Bell’s narratives of aesthetic Modernism. Fry, in his pre-World War I and interwar writings and teachings on art, and Bell, in seminal texts such as …
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