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Lecture: Alfred Barr, New York, "The Abstract Cabinet and the Modern Narrative"

aus: Entartete "Kunst", Ausschnitt Raumaufnahme OG 5, Südwand, München 1937
© MoAA, Berlin / El Lissitzky & Alexander Dorner: »Kabinett der Abstrakten II«, Acryl auf Leinwand
January 13, 2012, Friday, 19.30 p.m.
Museum der Dinge

This is a story about a collaboration between a museum director who completely changed the appearance of art history through
innovative museum displays and an avantgarde artist who invented a new way to exhibit abstract art. It is also a story about an
ambitious dictator who passionately believed that "art is noble and up to the fanaticism demanding mission". His desire was to
shape the course of art by building a huge temple of art and staging exhibitions of both "false art" called degenerate and "real
art" he thought was truly for the people. Finally it is a story about a young director of the modern museum on another continent
who reinvented modern art by abandoning the notion of "National Schools" and introducing instead "International Movements" as basic principle for both the museum and the history of modern art that became widely accepted and remained
until today.

The lecture is given in conjunction with the exhibition "Museumsbauhütte II"

Organiser:
Institut für Kunst im Kontext, Universität der Künste
Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge
Museum of American Art Berlin

Admission free.

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