Modern artifacts /

"Modern Artifacts features all 18 installments of the eponymous series that appeared in issues of Esopus--several of which are sold out--from 2006 to 2019. The "Modern Artifacts" series featured items reproduced in facsimile from MoMA's extraordinary collection--ranging from docu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elligott, Michelle (Author)
Corporate Authors: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Esopus Foundation
Other Authors: Lippy, Tod (Editor, Designer), Harvey, Michelle, 1954- (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn, NY : Esopus Books, [2020]
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Summary:"Modern Artifacts features all 18 installments of the eponymous series that appeared in issues of Esopus--several of which are sold out--from 2006 to 2019. The "Modern Artifacts" series featured items reproduced in facsimile from MoMA's extraordinary collection--ranging from documentation related to never-before-realized exhibitions to pages from the Museum's first guest book--curated and introduced by MoMA's Chief of Archives, Library, and Research Collections Michelle Elligott"--Publisher's website.
Item Description:Includes four loose items: "The art of assemblage, exhibition #695, all the materials listed on the checklist in the catalog," inserted between pages 98-99 ; "In visible," inserted between pages 242-243 inside tipped-in envelope ; letter from Alfred H. Barr, Jr., to Nelson A. Rockefeller, February 1, 1940, inserted between pages 320-321 ; Christmas card, LOVE, by Robert Indiana, 1965, inserted between pages 334-335.
Includes index.
Physical Description:354 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color facsimiles ; 31 cm
ISBN:9780989911771
0989911772