Documents of Modern Art Series
MoMA:
The compilation was a venture begun in 1943, whereby George Wittenborn and Heinz Schultz collaborated with Robert Motherwell, who served as general editor, and Bernard Karpel, Librarian at The Museum of Modern Art, who served as documentary editor and compiled many of the series’ bibliographies. The groundbreaking series specialized in making available in English major European texts by modern artists and about modern art.
Titles in the series included:
Guillaume Apollinaire, The Cubist Painters (1944)
Piet Mondrian, Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art (1945)
László Moholy-Nagy, The New Vision (1946)
Louis Henry Sullivan, Kindergarten Chats (1947)
Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1947)
Jean Arp, On My Way (1948)
Max Ernst, Beyond Painting (1948)
Robert Motherwell, The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology (1951)
David-Henri Kahnweiler, The Rise of Cubism (1949)
Marcel Raymond, From Baudelaire to Surrealism (1949)
Georges Duthuit, The Fauvist Painters (1950)
Carola Gideon-Welcker, Contemporary Sculpture (1955)
Marcel Duchamp, The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even (1960)
Paul Klee, The Thinking Eye (1961)
