 |
MODERN ARTIFACTS #1: CHARTING MODERNISM Introduction by Michelle Elligott With this issue, Esopus inaugurates “Modern Artifacts,” a series presented in partnership with the Museum of Modern Art Archives. Each installment will offer an example from MoMA’s extensive holdings of documents relating to the history and development of modern and contemporary art, introduced by archivist Michelle Elligott. This initial offering features a series of preparatory sketches from the papers of the museum’s first director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., all leading to the iconic chart Barr devised for the cover of the catalogue of the 1936 MoMA exhibition "Cubism and Modern Art." Michelle Elligott has been Museum Archivist at New York’s Museum of Modern Art for the past 11 years. She coedited Art in Our Time: A Chronicle of The Museum of Modern Art and has published and lectured widely. Elligott was recently a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Athens, Greece.
|
Esopus 7 (Fall 2006)
CONTENTS:
CONTENTS:
