William Rubin - A Curator's Quest, inscribed by Rubin

Description: William Rubin. A Curator's Quest: Building the Collection of Painting and Sculpture of the Museum of Modern Art, 1967-1988. New York and London: Overlook Duckworth, 2012 4to (10.75 x 9.5 in). Inscribed on the half-title by William Rubin. Some stray stains to verso of front free endpaper and half-title. Publisher's black cloth blindstamped on the upper cover, spine gilt lettered. Dustjacket with some minor creasing, rubbing, and tiny nicks at head of spine panel. With the CD recording of "Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism." An inscribed copy of this history of Rubin's contributions to MoMA's collections. "He was extraordinarily successful at acquiring for the collection such monuments of modern art as Pollock's One: Number 31, 1950 and Picasso's 1914 sheet-metal Guitar. The exhibitions he mounted as Chief Curator and later Director of the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum--among them the unprecedented Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective--set a standard of curatorial excellence. A Curator's Quest is the story of the professional life of a pioneering curator who built the Modern's unparalleled collection, and a history of MoMA itself during that key period. For anyone interested in the history and world of modern art, in connoisseurship and collecting, and in art scholarship in general, A Curator's Quest is at once an indispensable addition to the history of modern art and a testament to William Rubin's life and achievements--is truly a publishing event."

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