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WHAT'S MODERN?
Barr, Jr., Alfred H.. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2004. First Edition. 4to. Debossed Cloth. Exhibition Catalog. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 136pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Giampietro+Smith. With an exhibition checklist and artists' biographies. This is the nicely appointed hardbound catalogue documenting the 2004 Gagosian Gallery New York exhibition that coincided with the reopening of The Museum of Modern Art's Manhattan location entitled "What's Modern?". Sequenced in the chronological order of the works shown, it explores the scope and influence of Modernism beginning with the nineteenth century, and through its transitions from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The impressive exhibition contained works by Francis Bacon, John Baldessari, Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Maurizio Cattelan, Paul Cezanne, Salvador Dali, Willem de Kooning, Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti, Damien Hirst, Neil Jenney, Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Henri Matisse , Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Richard Prince, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, Edward Ruscha, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, Georges Seurat, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol. A brand new, pristine example still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-932598-09-X Inventory Number: 017096