Alice Goldfarb Marquis, Author . MFA Publications $40 (400p) ISBN 978-0-87846-644-3
Perhaps the 20th-century art world's most stimulating gadfly, Duchamp (1887–1968) wielded great influence on young American artists, from his cavalier pronouncements and installations to his cryptic sense of humor. He is the subject of an
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Alice Goldfarb Marquis, Author . MFA Publications $35 (321p) ISBN 978-0-87846-701-3
Arguably the dominant American art critic of the 20th century, Clement Greenberg (1909–1994) established the fundamental narrative of modern art—the movement toward total abstraction—that continues to circulate in the art world to...
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Alice Goldfarb Marquis, Author McGraw-Hill/Contemporary $21.95 (431p) ISBN 978-0-8092-4404-1
Son of a Presbyterian minister from Baltimore, Barr preached the gospel of modern art with missionary zeal. Enlisted by the Rockefellers to become first director of New York's Museum of Modern Art, he helped make Picasso, Klee, Mondrian and Matisse...
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Alice Goldfarb Marquis, Author Basic Books $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-465-00437-9
Marquis characterizes the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) as a cultural bureaucracy dominated by powerful interests--corporate arts patrons, state and local arts councils, unions, advocates for various disciplines. In a lively, slashing...
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