Objects of desire : the modern still life /

Works by Arman, Iwan Babij, Georg Baselitz, Max Beckmann, Umberto Boccioni, Georges Braque, Marcel Broodthaers, Patrick Henry Bruse, Carlo Carrà, Paul Cézanne, Christo, Le Corbusier, Josehp Cornell, Tony Cragg, Salvador Dalí, Stuart Davis, Giorgio de Chirico, André Derain, Jim Dine, Jean Dubuffet, M...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rowell, Margit (author of catalog,, Curator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams, ©1997.
Subjects:	Still-life in art > Exhibitions. Art, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions. Duchamp, Marcel, > 1887-1968. Dalí, Salvador, > 1904-1989. Braque, Georges, > 1882-1963. Gris, Juan, > 1887-1927. Matisse, Henri, > 1869-1954. Magritte, René, > 1898-1967. Klee, Paul, > 1879-1940. Miró, Joan, > 1893-1983. Warhol, Andy, > 1928-1987. Picasso, Pablo, > 1881-1973. Beckmann, Max, > 1884-1950. Arman, > 1928-2005. Chirico, Giorgio de, > 1888-1978. Broodthaers, Marcel, > 1924-1976. Sherman, Cindy, > 1954- Kahlo, Frida, > 1907-1954. Smith, Kiki, > 1954- Oppenheim, Meret, > 1913-1985. Léger, Fernand, > 1881-1955. Nature morte dans l'art > Expositions. Art, Modern. Still-life in art. Beeldende kunsten. Kunstvoorwerpen. Stillevens. Art, Modern > 20th century. Art moderne > 20e siècle > Catalogues d'exposition. 1900-1999 Still-life in art Exhibition catalogs.
Online Access:	e-book Exhibition history

Table of Contents:

The world as perceptual field
Anatomies of structure
Real fictions
Metaphysical painting: modern classicisms/ideal geometries
Forms of new objectivity
Allegories of life and death: tradition revisited and transformed
Languages of surrealism, languages of subversion
The mechanisms of consumer culture
Postmodern simulacra
Cézanne and Magritte revisited.