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New York / United States

Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925

Abstraction appears here as an international exchange of ideas across painting, music, poetry, film and dance.

Institution
The Museum of Modern Art
Exhibition dates
23 December 2012 – 15 April 2013
Record type
Museum record
Archive reference
MEA-007

A network rather than a single origin

Organised by Leah Dickerman with Masha Chlenova, the exhibition followed networks of artists rather than a single origin story. MoMA’s surviving record includes installation photography, audio and a publication entry.

Cataloguing note

The dates 1910–1925 belong to the exhibition’s subject; the exhibition itself opened in 2012.

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Related publication

Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925: How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art

Leah Dickerman · 2012

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