The Museum Of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York
is currently hosting an exhibition called Inventing Abstraction: 1920-5. They
took the opportunity to unreaval a graphic representation of the birth of
modern art.
The
image, which was designed for their upcoming show Inventing
Abstraction: 1910-1925 (December 23, 2012–April 15, 2013), is an
obvious node to Alfred H. Barr Jr.’s important Cubism and Abstract Art chart that accompanied a show of
the same name at the MoMA in 1936.
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| 1. Barr's Original for the 1936 Exhibition |
This web of relationships
goes beyond visual art to incorporate musicians like Claude Debussy, writers
like Guillaume Apollinaire, and choreographers like Vaslav Nijinsky, and gives
us the most complete picture of abstractions transcontinental roots we’ve ever
seen.
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| 2. Info Graphic for the 2012 Exhibition (Click Here to Enlarge) |
The Americans, centered on
photographer Alfred Stieglitz, branch out to include Max Weber, Marsden Hartley, and others. There are obvious Italian, Russian, British, Dutch and
other clusters but the image connects the dots between figures we may not know
were in contact. The Hungarian hub includes painter Sándor Bortnyik, and Bauhaus pioneer László Moholy-Nagy.The chart shows
all known relationships that including those who have shared studios and even
slept together.
For more, go to Hyperallergic or the MoMA homepage.
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