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Book Review

Alfred H. Barr Jr. and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of Modern Art. By Sybil Gordon Kantor. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. xxv, 472 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-262-11258-2.)
In July 1929, a young Wellesley art history professor by the name of Alfred Barr was invited to Abby Aldrich Rockefeller's summer residence and interviewed for the position of founding director of the nascent Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Rockefeller's reservations about the candidate's "not having a more impressive appearance" notwithstanding (p. 211), Barr was given the opportunity to organize and run the first American museum devoted exclusively to modern art. In the series of groundbreaking exhibitions, spectacular acquisitions, and scholarly catalogs that he produced in the following decade, Barr offered visitors a prescient, multidisciplinary narrative of modern art, one that remains a vital, albeit hotly contested, touchstone in the history of modernism in America. . . .
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