Alfred Barr and the intellectual sources of the Museum of Modern Art

The history of the Museum of Modern Art (Moma), recognized as the best among similar institutions, and its founder Alfred Barra. In this book - partially intellectual biography, partially institutional history - Sibil Gordon Cantor tells the history of the heyday of contemporary art in America and the person responsible for his triumph. The author tried to evaluate the unique, rotary role that Barr played in the development of critical and philosophical postulates of modernism in the visual arts of the first half of the 20th century. Cantor examines in detail two iconic exhibitions collected by Barr, "Cubism and abstract art" and "fantastic art, Dadaism, surrealism." Malevich, Lisitsky, Gropius, Corbusier, Picasso, Deren, Matisse - everything is about how the work of great artists became part of the Moma collection