![]() ![]() This large coffee table/art history book announces its singularity with its cover, a painting by Hilma af Klint, whose recently rediscovered achievement upended the history of modernist abstraction. ![]() ‘ABSTRACT ART: A GLOBAL HISTORY’ By Pepe Karmel ( Thames & Hudson ) Mixed with these are new projects by six contemporary artists - Mary Ellen Carroll, Rhea Karam, Mary Lum, Clifford Owens, Michael Rakowitz and Paul Ramirez Jonas - that illuminate additional aspects of the archive, revealing their contemporary implications. Barr Jr.’s sketches for his famous chart of modernist art movements. All are republished here, with actual-size reproductions of telegrams, photographs, carbon copies of letters (remember those?), newspaper clippings and an early V.I.P. This she did for each of its 18 issues, until 2018. In 2006 Tod Lippy, an artist and editor, invited Michelle Elligott, chief of the Museum of Modern Art’s fabled archives, to write a column on some aspect of its holdings for his just-founded magazine, Esopus. ![]() ‘MODERN ARTIFACTS’ By Michelle Elligott & Tod Lippy ( Esopus Books) ![]()
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