Fernand Léger / [exhibition organized by] Carolyn Lanchner ; with essays by Carolyn Lanchner, Jodi Hauptman and Matthew Affron ; and contributions by Beth Handler and Kristen Erickson.

Fernand Léger /

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"Fernand Leger is the only major modern artist to choose modernity itself as his subject. From his early series "Contrastes de formes," of 1913-14 - the first fully abstract works to emerge from Cubism - through his paintings of construction workers from the late 1940s and early 1950s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955
Corporate Author: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Other Authors: Lanchner, Carolyn, Hauptman, Jodi, Affron, Matthew, 1963-, Handler, Beth, Erickson, Kristen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 1998.
Subjects:
Léger, Fernand, > 1881-1955 > Exhibitions.
Léger, Fernand, > 1881-1955
Exhibition catalogs.
Acquisition Notes:Gift of Ruth Fine in memory of Larry Day (c.3)
Table of Contents:
  • Fernand Leger: American Connections / Carolyn Lanchner
  • Imagining Cities / Jodi Hauptman
  • Leger's Modernism: Subjects and Objects / Matthew Affron
  • Plates
  • Introductions / Beth Handler
  • Chronology / Kristen Erickson
  • Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art.

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