American Art of the 1960s: Studies in Modern Art 1
John Elderfield (Editor)
The Museum of Modern Art, December 1991

Paperback | 8-1/2 x 10 inches | 184 pages | 137 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-0870704581 | $25.00

Publisher's Description (PDF):
This month, The Museum of Modern Art publishes American Art of the 1960s, the first issue in Studies in Modern Art, an annual scholarly journal concentrating on works of art in the Museum's collection, on the Museum's program, and related topics. Edited by John Elderfield, director of the Department of Drawings and curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture, Studies in Modern Art includes essays by both Museum of Modern Art curators and outside scholars. The first issue takes as its subject aspects of the Museum's collection of American art from the 1960s and its exhibition activities during the decade.
The Museum of Modern Art's collection bears vivid testimony to the richness and diversity of an era of great intellectual ferment, during which many important and enduring movements took seed and developed. The seven articles in American Art of the 1960s discuss painting, sculpture, printmaking, architecture, theater design, and film.dDAB Commentary:
Three years ago, Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture turned fifty, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), which published the widely influential book in 1966, celebrated with a symposium organized with the University of Pennsylvania. Contributi...