Three Lectures on Modern Art, 1949 [Katherine S. Dreier, James Johnson Sweeney and Naum Gabo]

Three Lectures on Modern Art by Katherine S. Dreier, James Johnson Sweeney and Naum Gabo, 1949. Philosophical Library, New York, 1949. 5.5 x 8.75, 92 pages. Illustrated dust jacket featuring a photograph of Gabo’s “Construction in Space: Spiral Theme.”

Foreword by Dean Charles Sawyer, School of Fine Arts, Yale University. These three lectures delivered at Yale University under the auspices of the Thomas Rutherford Trowbridge Art Lecture Foundation deal with the founding of the Société Anonyme; Museum of Modern Art; 1920, organized by Dreier, Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray — to bring clarity to the confusion which the many new forms of expression in art brought over by the Armory Show (International Exhibition of Modern Art) Exhibition in 1913 had caused ... an important publication!

Lectures (printed and illustrated) include: Intrinsic Significance in Modern Art by Katherine S. Dreier; Modern Art and Tradition by James Johnson Sweeney; and A Retrospective View of Constructive Art by Naum Gabo. Illustrated throughout with (19) black and white works from: Katherine S. Dreier, Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Leger, Naaum Gabo, Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, Juan Gris, Joan Miro, Jacques Villon, Paul Klee, Antoine Pevsner and others.

A very good blue (also printed red) hardcover cloth. In a very good original dust jacket with light wear and rubbing along the edges and some paper loss from the corners. Interior pages are bound tightly and page 52/53 has started to crack. Better than all the copies we've seen.