Description: AMERICAN SOURCES OF MODERN ART 1933 Museum of Modern Art First Edition 101 pages and 51 Aztec, Mayan, Incan Plates Holger Cahill: AMERICAN SOURCES OF MODERN ART. New York: the Museum of Modern Art, May 1933. First edition [2,500 copies]. Quarto. Orange cloth titled in black. 50 pages of text followed by 51 black and white plates. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Orange spine cloth uniformly sunned, else a fine copy. 7.75 x 10 hardcover book with 101 pages and 51 black and white plates. "The purpose of the Exhibition," says Mr. Holger Cahill, in his introduction to the illustrated catalogue which, following its custom, the Museum of Modern Art will publish in connection with the show, "has been to bring together examples of the art of the ancient civilizations of America which are to be found in collections in the United States, and to show its relation to the work of modern artists. There is no intention here to insist that ancient American art is a major source of modern art. Nor is it intended to suggest that American artists should turn to it as the source of native expression. It is intended, simply, to show the high quality of ancient American art, and to indicate that its influence is present in modern art in the work of painters and sculptors some of whom have been unconscious of its influence, while others have accepted or sought it quite consciously.” A Museum of Modern Art press release from April 1933: “About two hundred objects, including pottery, sculpture, painting, ornaments in gold and jade, textiles, and feather ornaments, from Mexico, Central America and Peru, will show American art before the coming of Columbus, an art which the evidence of archaeology has revealed as among the greatest expressions of the human spirit and from which many modern artists have derived inspiration. “Among the Museums lending articles for this exhibition are the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, the Pennsylvania University Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, the Museum of the American Indian, Keye Foundation, the United States National Museum, Washington, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Other museums and private collectors will also be represented. Some of the material will come from Central America. There will be many pieces from the finest periods of Mayan, Aztec, Toltec, and Peruvian art, and at least one large stele from Guatemala which has never before been seen outside the tropical jungle.” Please visit my Ebay store for an excellent and ever-changing selection of rare and out-of-print design books and periodicals covering all aspects of 20th-century visual culture. I offer shipping discounts for multiple purchases. Please contact me for details. Payment due within 3 days of purchase.
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