Twenty centuries of Mexican art = Veinte siglos de arte mexicano.
"Curated by three of Mexico's leading art historians along with the painter Miguel Covarrubias, Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art had originally been intended for a French museum, but was rerouted to New York due to the risk posed by shipping precious artworks by sea during World War II. Thi...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | English Spanish |
| Language Notes: | Text in English and Spanish. |
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Published for the Museum of Modern Art by Arno Press,
[1972]
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| Series: | Museum of Modern Art publications in reprint.
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| Summary: | "Curated by three of Mexico's leading art historians along with the painter Miguel Covarrubias, Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art had originally been intended for a French museum, but was rerouted to New York due to the risk posed by shipping precious artworks by sea during World War II. This unparalleled exhibition featured some 5,000 examples of ancient, colonial, folk, and modern Mexican art. The exhibition has a lasting legacy at MoMA: among its holdings of Mexican modernism are works by 54 of the artists represented."--MOMA. |
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| Item Description: | "1940 copyright by the Museum of Modern Art and the Instituto de Antropologia e Historia de Mexico."--Title page verso. Published on occasion of the exhibition "Twenty centuries of Mexican art", MoMA, May 15-September 30, 1940. |
| Physical Description: | 198 pages, [175] leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-199). |
| ISBN: | 0405015801 9780405015809 |