MODERN ARCHITECTS
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Jr.,
Philip Johnson and Lewis Mumford
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Jr., Philip Johnson and Lewis Mumford: MODERN ARCHITECTS. New York: Museum of Modern Art and W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., [1932]. Octavo. Black cloth stamped in yellow. 200 pp. Text, plates and diagrams. A fine copy. First edition. Cloth trade edition of the MODERN ARCHITECTURE: INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION [February 10 to March 23, 1932] catalog published by MoMA in 1932. The exhibit eventually travelled to eleven different venues, thus the necessity for a trade edition of the catalog. This cloth edition is now less common than the original MoMA catalog.
Includes lengthy illustrated sections with Models, Chronologies and Bibliographies on:
Terence Riley noted that the early tastemakers at MoMA understood their job was to separate "the wheat from the chaff." Few people rose to that challenge with more vigor than Philip Johnson, the young head of the Department of Architecture and Design. Alfred Barršs insistence on including Architecture and Design as a fully functioning department within MoMA was a radical curatorial departure, which seems only obvious today.
Philip Johnson's 1928 visit to the Bauhaus Dessau sparked his imagination and solidified his role as a proselytizer for the European avant-garde architecture. "We were proud to be avant-gardists; we wore our enthusiasm as a badge of honor that distinguished us as culturally superior to those around us." Johnson said. From this plateau, Johnson and his MoMA collaborators Barr and Hitchcock eventually labeled this architecture "The International Style."
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