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This programme examines how and why the MOMA became one of the most important art institutions of the 20th Century.
This programme examines how and why the MOMA became one of the most important art institutions of the 20th Century.
| Module code and title: | A316, Modern art: practices and debates |
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| Item code: | A316; 17 |
| First transmission date: | 1993 |
| Published: | 1993 |
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| Duration: | 00:25:00 |
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| Producer: | G.D Jayalakshmi |
| Contributors: | Francis Frascina; Kirk Varnedoe |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | 1968 Vietnam War; Alfred Barr; Bauhaus principles; Greenberg; Leftism |
| Subject terms: | Art, Modern--20th century; Museum of Modern Art (New York); |
| Footage description: | Footage - Kirk Varnedoe speaking. B/w aerial Photo of MOMA. Exterior views of MOMA in Manhattan. Varnedoe speaking in front of Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon". Flow chart "The development of Modern art" by Alfred Barr. Vardenoe speaking. MOMA galleries. Painting: "The Bather" by Cezanne (0'18"-2'09") - Lucy Lippard speaking. Exterior of MOMA panning to outdoor sculptures. Interior gallery. Leon Golub speaking (2'10"-4'26") - Title: "The origins of MOMA". B/w photos of Alfred Barr, 1940s and MOMA exhibition 1929. Philip Johnson speaking. B/w photo of Johnson 1930s. B/w film of Wall Street Crash. Johnson speaking. B/w photos: Mary Sullivan, Lillie Bliss, Abby Rockefeller. B/w photos: MOMA exhibition 1929 (4'27"-6'11") - Johnson speaking. B/w photo Alfred Barr with group. Johnson speaking. B/w photo Alfred Barr. Varnedoe speaking. MOMA general admission desk and visitors. Visitors in shop (6'11"-7'36"). Title:"Culture: Elite or Democratic?" Archive b/w film of opening of National Art Gallery. Queue of people. Visitors in gallery looking at paintings: "The Dream" by Rousseau and "Guernica" by Picasso. B/w photos: building committee with model of MOMA 1937, garden facade 1939. Bulletin of MOMA: front page, July 1939. B/w photos: opening of Art In Our Time exhibition 1939; Philip Johnson & Jean Debuffet, 1939; presentation of Lillie Bliss collection; Alfred Barr, Dorothy Miller & James Thrall Soby, 1954; Nelson Rockefeller, Mrs Sheppard, Sam Lewisohn & A Conger Goodyear, 1939 (7'37"-8'55") - Johnson speaking. Vardenoe speaking. Man in gallery of modern artifacts. Pramed posters. Propellor. Linda Nochlin speaking. MOMA gallery: paintings & sculptures. Panning around gallery. Nochlin speaking. "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon". Woman viewing paintings. Pan to Cubist collage (8'56"-11'51").B/w archive film of Franklin D.Roosevelt. B/w still FDR making radio broadcast. Varnedoe speaking. Painting:"Flag" by Jasper Johns. Pan round gallery to a second gallery. Mobile sculpture. Varnedoe speaking. Golub speaking. B/w photos: various of protesters 1970. B/w archive film: Vietnam protest. Nochlin speaking. "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" panning to painting by Braque (11'52"-15'57") - Varnedoe speaking. Painting by Pollock panning round gallery. Lippard speaking. B/w archive news film: Vietnam War. Lippard speaking. B/w photos: protesters 1970s, Vasilakis. Lippard speaking. Poster:"And babies, and babies" Detail. B/w photo: demo with "And babies..." Lippard speaking. B/w abstract painting. Text (15'58"-19'31") - Nochlin speaking. Film posters 1930s-40s. Nochlin speaking. Title:"Role of MOMA today" Varnedoe speaking. Paintings & sculptures. Nochlin, Lippard speaking. MOMA gallery & black sculpture of nude.(19'32"-24'14"). |
| Master spool number: | HOU6790 |
| Production number: | FOUA330K |
| Videofinder number: | 4184 |
| Available to public: | no |
