The "Modern Art 2015 Wall Calendar "is the modern art lover's essential calendar and features 12 of the world's most famous works from The Museum of Modern Art's world-famous collection, including masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, Edward Hopper, Vasily Kandinsky, Roy Lichtenstein, and Diego Rivera.
HOW WILL THIS TITLE BE DISTINCTIVE: *Very cool look. *Much more modern than most guided sketchbooks. *Great crossover appeal. *Andy Warhol Idea Book meets Quirk's Walls Notebook with open-ended prompts that will inspire young and old alike. NOTABLE AUTHORS OR CONTRIBUTORS TO PROJECT: *MOMA is a t[...]
Growing up with the twentieth century, Alfred Barr (1902-1981), founding director of the Museum of Modern Art, harnessed the cataclysm that was modernism. In this book -- part intellectual biography, part institutional history -- Sybil Gordon Kantor tells the story of the rise of modern art in Ameri[...]
Based on the French master Henri Matisse's publication of "Jazz, " a book of prints made from his cutout collages combining circus and theatrical imagery around a central theme of improvisation and variation. "Matisse Jazz 2015 Wall Calendar" features 12 of the most playful and powerful plates from [...]
Inspired by classic wooden stringing beads, these stringing books do more than allow children to develop manipulative skills - they also inspire a love of books and introduce very young children to the basic foundations of art (color, shapes, and patterns).[...]
Play with colour in new ways with these surprising jigsaw puzzles with MoMA! These refreshingly original and reversible puzzles will dazzle the eye and provide fascinating colour play for children (and adults!).[...]
More than sixty years have passed since the critic Robert Coates, writing in "The New Yorker" in 1946, first used the term Abstract Expressionism to describe the richly coloured canvases of Hans Hofmann. The name stuck, and over the years it has come to designate the paintings and sculptures of arti[...]
Arthur Drexler (1921-1987) served as the curator and director of the Architecture and Design Department at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) from 1951 until 1986-the longest curatorship in the museum's history. Over four decades he conceived and oversaw trailblazing exhibitions that not only reflected[...]
Very different from the rougher, blunter prose of her male contemporaries, Alma Lazarevska's stories can perhaps be described as the tender heart of Bosnian war. Writing from the domestic perspective, her prose is nevertheless deceptively simple; allowing the horror of the war to impinge with devast[...]
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark, is famous as a union of art, architecture and nature. This volume offers a condensed history of the museum and its architecture, a collaboration between Jorgen Bo and Vilhelm Wohlert.[...]