Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of

Backcover:"Growing up with the twentieth century, Alfed Baar (1902-1981, founding director of the Museum of Modern Art, harnessed the cataclysn that was modernism. In this book- part intellectual biography, part institutional history- Sybil Gordon Kantor tells the story of the rise od modern art in America and od the man responsible for ist triumph . Following the trajectory of Baar´s career from the 1920s through the 1940s, Kantor penetrates the myths, both positive and negative, that surround Barr and his achievements."