"MoMA 2000: Modern Starts".MUSEUM OF MODERN ART modern art, art created from the 19th cent. to the mid-20th cent. by artists who veered away from the traditional concepts and techniques of painting, sculpture, and other fine arts that had been practiced since the Renaissance (see Renaissance art and architecture). Nearly every phase of modern art was initially greeted by the public with ridicule, but as the shock wore off, the various movements settled into history, influencing and inspiring new generations of "Modern Starts" is the first of three Y2K exhibitions re-presenting the history of modern art as told by MOMA Moma (mō`mä), town, E central Mozambique. It is important mainly as a harbor for the export of tropical produce.'s collection. based on a historicist premise (1880-1920), the show's structure nonetheless deflects history's arrow: Curator John Elderfield et al. divide the works not chronologically but thematically, into "People," "Places," and "Things." Perverse, one might ask, to emphasize representational themes at a time when the medium itself was getting the upper hand? If the modernist narratives so bound up with MoMA'S history emerge from this revitalizing rearrangement more stirred than shaken, Elderfield's look at the opening chapter should nevertheless offer up myriad local charms and surprises. After all, he's got plenty to work with. Oct. 7, 1999-Mar. 14, 2000. |
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