Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern - Hardcover

To look inside this book, click here.   Clearance. Edited by Samantha Friedman and Jodi Hauptman. With contributions by Samantha Friedman, Lynn Garafola, Michelle Greet, Michelle Harvey, Richard Meyer, and Kevin Moore   Lincoln Kirstein (1907–1996) was a true polymath—writer, critic, curator, and impresario—and an indefatigable catalyst, whose contributions to American cultural endeavors in the 1930s and '40s helped shaped the lives of artists and institutions. Best known for his defining role with the New York City Ballet, which he co-founded with choreographer George Balanchine, Kirstein is also a crucial figure in the early history of The Museum of Modern Art. A champion of realism, photography, and performance, he organized numerous exhibitions, established the Museum's short-lived Dance Archives and its curatorial Dance and Theatre Design department, acquired a significant trove of Latin American art for MoMA's collection, and proposed an alternate vision of modernism—one that em