Product Description: William S. Paley, founder of CBS, Inc., and a towering figure in the modern entertainment, communication and news industries, was also an enthusiastic collector of twentieth-century art and a committed supporter of The Museum of Modern Art...read more

The distinguished curator, critic, collector, art historian, and teacher William Rubin was a forceful presence for over two decades at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from the late 1960s through the 1980s. He was extraordinarily successful at acquiring for the collection such monuments of modern art as Pollock's One: Number 31, 1950 and Picasso's 1914 sheet-metal Guitar. The exhibitions he mounted as Chief Curator and later Director of the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum--among them the unprecedented Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective--set a standard of curatorial excellence. A Curator's Quest is the story of the professional life of a pioneering curator who built the Modern's unparalleled collection, and a history of MoMA itself during that key period. For anyone interested in the history and world of modern art, in connoisseurship and collecting, and in art scholarship in general, A Curator's Quest is at once an indispensable addition to the history of modern art and a testament to William Rubin's life and achievements--is truly a publishing event.

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Product Description: Book by Rubin, William (ed)

Reproduces drawings and paintings by two principal pioneers of cubism and examines the interlocking nature of these works

Shows examples of Stella's large scale paintings, constructions, and reliefs created over the last seventeen years, and discusses the themes, style, and materials of his work

Reproduces drawings and paintings by two principal pioneers of cubism and examines the interlocking nature of these works

Looks at primitive art by the African and Oceanic cultures, and discusses its influence on Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso, Klee, Moore and various movements in modern art

A comprehensive pictorial summation of Picasso's work includes nearly eight hundred paintings, sculptures, drawings, collages, prints, and ceramics as well as tracing the evolution of his art

Color and black-and-white reproductions of oils and watercolors created between 1895 and 1906 are augmented by essays appraising Cezanne's purposes, motifs, style, and triumphs in his last, great period