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• Title:René d'Harnoncourt and the art of installation / Michelle Elligott.
  
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• Author/Creator:Elligott, Michelle, author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2018]
  New York, New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by ARTBOOK/D.A.P.
  ©2018
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N620.M9 E45 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:D'Harnoncourt, Rene, 1901-1968.
  Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)--Employees--Biography.
  Museum directors--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
  Museum curators--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
  Art museums--Exhibitions.
  Museum techniques.
  Museum exhibits.
  
• Genre/Form:Biographies.
  
• Description:173 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
  
• Summary:"René d'Harnoncourt served as the director of the Museum of Modern Art from 1949 to 1968. His interest in non-Western and non-modern art shaped much of MoMA's ambitious programming in the mid-20th century: in addition to shows addressing modern art, such as The Sculpture of Picasso (1968) and Modern Art in Your Life (1949), he organized exhibitions devoted to themes not generally associated with MoMA, including Indian Art of the United States (1941), Arts of the South Seas (1946), Ancient Arts of the Andes (1954) and Art of the Asmat: The Collection of Michael C. Rockefeller (1962). An illustrated chronology of d'Harnoncourt's life rounds out the volume, detailing his multifaceted journey from birth as a count into a landowning family in Austria, to his time as a commercial artist in Mexico, to his post working for Nelson A. Rockefeller in the US State Department (Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs), which eventually led to his appointment at MoMA."-- Artbook website (viewed on October 26, 2018)
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781633450509 (hardcover)
  1633450503 (hardcover)
  
• Contents:René d'Harnoncourt : installateur
  Exhibition portfolios; Mexican arts, 1930-32; Indian art of the United States, 1941; Arts of the South Seas, 1946; Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner, 1948; Elie Nadelman, 1948; Timeless aspects of modern art, 1948-49; Modern art in your life, 1949; Ancient arts of the Andes, 1954; Seurat paintings and drawings, 1958; Jean Arp: a retrospective, 1958; Art of the Asmat, 1962; Rodin, 1963; The sculpture of Picasso, 1967-68
  René d'Harnoncourt: a life.