"An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture" Exhibition Catalog by Kynaston McShine, Harriet Schoenholz Bee, Jane Fluegel, Preface by Richard E. Oldenburg, published by Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984. First Edition, illustrated.

Soft cover, large format: 11" x 11.1/2"; 364 pages including short infos to the artists, a little wear, especially covers, front endpaper has a vertical fold, very good condition.

“The large international exhibition of contemporary painting and sculpture that will inaugurate the renovated and expanded Museum of Modern Art on May 17 is also intended to demonstrate the museum's commitment to the work of living artists.

"An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture," the first major international survey exhibition at the Modern since 1970, is regarded as a response of sorts to persistent criticism by some artists and critics that the museum has long been biased in favor of work produced earlier in the century and has largely ignored living artists as a result.

...The international survey, whose contents and point of view have been a carefully guarded secret, will contain 195 works by 165 artists from 17 countries, ranging from the United States and Western Europe to Eastern Europe, Australia and South America. It will occupy two full floors of the museum.

According to Mr. McShine, a prerequisite for selection in the survey was that an artist's reputation had to have been established after 1975. That means there will not be work by such artists as Frank Stella and Cy Twombly, both of whom are well represented in the museum's permanent collection, or Leon Golub, an artist first shown at the Modern in 1959, whose reputation has been re-established since 1975.

The exhibition will include the Chicago-based painters Nicholas Africano and Roger Brown; the abstract painters Gregory Amenoff, Katherine Porter and Claude Viallat; the Neo-Expressionists Georg Baselitz, Eric Fischl, J"org Immendorff, Malcolm Morley, A. R. Penck, David Salle and Julian Schnabel; the pattern painters Robert Kushner and Kim MacConnel; the modern-day Intimist Howard Hodgkin; the New Image painters Robert Moskowitz and Susan Rothenberg and the humorist Mark Tansey. The sculptors include Magadalena Abakanowicz, Siah Armajani, Scott Burton, Barry Flanagan, Tom Otterness, Joel Shapiro, Christopher Wilmarth and Gilberto Zorio...[excerpts from a review]

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