Alfredus Hamilton Barr

Alfredus Hamilton Barr iunior (28 Ianuarii 1902–15 Augusti 1981) fuit historicus artis Americanus primusque rector Musei Artis Modernae Novi Eboraci in urbe siti. Ex quo loco apud progressum sententiae populi erga artem modernam magnopere valuit; exempli gratia, eius praeclara exhibitio van Goghiana anno 1935, verbis Berniciae Kert auctoris, "praecursor fuit suavitatis quam Van Gogh etiam hodie in imaginatione hodierna tenet."^[1]^[2]

Puer in Schola Latina Puerorum Baltimorae Terrae Mariae studuit. Gradus A.B. anno 1923 et A.M. anno 1924 in Universitate Princetoniensi accepit, ubi historiae artis sub Francisco Jewett Mathet Caroloque Rufo Morey studuit. Anno 1924 in ratione doctorali apud Universitatem Harvardianam matriculavit, sed cursibus absolutis, mox discessit ut docere inciperet. Gradum Ph.D. anno 1946 demum acceperit.^[3] Professor consociatus feminas historia artis in Collegio Wellesleiani ex anno 1926 docuit. Rector Musei Artis Modernae mense Augusto 1929 creatus est, anno aetatis suae vicensimo septimo. Amotus est anno 1943.

Opera selecta

Lbri

1934. Art in America in Modern Times.
1946. Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art.
1951. Matisse, His Art and His Public.
1986. Cubism and Abstract Art. Cantabrigiae: Belknap Press Universitatis Harvardianae. ISBN 0674179358.

Commentarii

"Chronicles." In Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art 1929–1967 (Novi Eboraci: Museum of Modern Art, 1977), 619–650.

Notae

↑ Anglice "a precursor to the hold Van Gogh has to this day on the contemporary imagination."
↑ Kert 1993:376.
↑ Alexander 2005.

Nexus interni

Expressionismus abstractus

Bibliographia

Alexander, Ralph. 2005. MoMA as Educator: The Legacy of Alfred H. Barr Jr. Retractatio libri Alfred H. Barr Jr. and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of Modern Art Sybil Gordon Kantor. The Journal of Aesthetic Education 39(2): 97–103.
Barr, Margaret Scolari. 1987. Our Campaigns: Alfred H. Barr Jr. and the Museum of Modern Art: A Biographical Chronicle of the Years 1930–1944. The New Criterion aetate: 23–74.
Fitzgerald, Michael C. 1995. Making Modernism: Picasso and the Creation of the Market for Twentieth-Century Art. Novi Eboraci: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Kantor, Sybil Gordon. 2002. Alfred H. Barr Jr. and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of Modern Art. Cantabrigiae Masssachusettae: MIT Press. ISBN 0262112582.
Kert, Bernice. 1993. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: The Woman in the Family. Novi Eboraci: Random House.
Lynes, Russell. 1973. Good Old Modern: An Intimate Portrait of the Museum of Modern Art. Novi Eboraci: Athenaeum.
MacDonald, Dwight. 1953. Profiles: Action on West Fifty-Third Street – I. The New Yorker, 12 Decembris, 39(43):49–82.
MacDonald, Dwight. 1953. Profiles: Action on West Fifty-Third Street – II. The New Yorker, 19 Decembris, 39(44):35–72.
Marquis, Alice Goldfarb. 1989. Alfred H. Barr Jr: Missionary for the Modern. Novi Eboraci: Contemporary Books. ISBN 0809244047.
Meyer, Richard. 2007. What Was Contemporary Art? Swarthmore College, Swarthmore Pennsilvaniae, 21 Februarii.
Reich, Cary. 1996. The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer 1908–1958. Novi Eboraci: Doubleday.
Rockefeller, David. 2002. Memoirs. Novi Eboraci: Random House. ISBN 0679405887.
Roob, Rona. 1987. Alfred H. Barr Jr.: A Chronicle of the Years 1902–1929. The New Criterion aetate: 1–19.

Nexus externi

Vicicitatio habet citationes quae ad Alfredus Hamilton Barr spectant.

[1] Anglice "a precursor to the hold Van Gogh has to this day on the contemporary imagination."

[2] Kert 1993:376.

[3] Alexander 2005.

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