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Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art - The Arthur Drexler Years, 1951-1986
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
1 Prologue: MoMA's Department of Architecture and Design, 1932-1951
2 The Rise of Arthur Drexler, 1925-1951
3 Apprenticeship: Drexler as Curator, 1951-1956
4 Modernism at High Tide: Drexler as Department Director, 1956-1966
5 Creative Destruction: Drexler, MoMA, and the Changing Course of Modern Architecture, 1966-1975
6 Modernism under Siege: Drexler, MoMA, and the Postmodernist Challenge, 1975-1985
7 Modernism Reconsidered: Drexler and MoMA, 1980-1986
Notes
Index

About the Author

THOMAS S. HINES is professor emeritus of history and architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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"Anyone interested in A&D at MoMA should read The Arthur Drexler Years, 1951-1986, especially those who want to know more about such important exhibitions as Built in USA: Post-War Architecture (1953), The New City: Architecture and Urban Renewal (1967), The Architecture of the École des Beaux-Arts (1975), and Mies van der Rohe Centennial Exhibition (1986)."
--A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

"A fascinating examination."-- "Journal of Design History"

"This volume is richly illustrated with [106] black and white reproductions of photographs, buildings, exhibition installations and models. . . . It would be an appropriate addition for museum libraries or academic art libraries that support curatorial or museum studies departments."-- "ARLIS/NA"

"[A] meticulously researched account . . . "
-- "Architectural Record"

"Given the pivotal role MoMA played in advancing, documenting, and critiquing modern design, this book is valuable not only for its examination of Drexler's impact but also as a historiography of modern architecture."
-- "Choice"

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