1930s

Asia | Transnational Histories and Non-aligned Networks

post Presents: Unsettled Dust—Archives, Epistemologies, Images

These presentations and panel discussion at MoMA brought together four filmmakers and artists who work in expanded documentary modes, using existing footage, archival research, interviews, and scripted narratives to produce imaginative accounts of transnational struggles, solidarities, and interventions. Using moving images, some of these practitioners interrogate the anti-colonial and anti-imperialist movements of the mid-late 20th…

Jerónimo Atehortúa, Jihan El Tahri, Naeem Mohaiemen, Mila Turajlić, Rattanamol Singh Johal and Stuart Comer

The Americas | One Work, Many Voices

**Bearing Witness: Martín Chambi’s Campesinos Testifying, Palace of Justice, Cuzco (c. 1929)**

In Campesinos Testifying, Palace of Justice, Cuzco (c. 1929) by Peruvian photographer Martín Chambi (1891–1973), six Andean peasants huddle together at the Cuzco courthouse—four on a wooden bench and two standing behind them. Behind this group, two men are seated along a wall and, to their right, two functionaries sit at a table, one bent…

Elise Chagas

Asia | A Global Museum

Exhibitionary Heritage: The Grid

Treating as insightful case studies the records of miraculous, flower-flurried advents of Mary, Mediatrix of All Grace in the Mindanao Cross, a local newspaper founded by Catholic missionaries in Cotabato City, Mindanao, in 1948, researcher and curator Renan Laru-an initiates the notion of an exhibitionary heritage, articulating this proposition through a self-created grid.

Renan Laru-an

Asia | Transnational Histories and Non-aligned Networks

Global Resonance, Belonging, and the Artist Abroad: Okamoto Tarō in Paris

Okamoto Tarō recollects his experiences in Paris between 1929 and 1940, discusses the Abstraction-Création movement and reflects on his time at the Sorbonne and Musée de l’Homme.

Stephanie M. Hohlios

Central & Eastern Europe | One Work, Many Voices

Marianne Brandt’s Bauhaus Timepiece

Elizabeth Otto focuses on Brandt’s iconic table clock and unpacks the legendary design aesthetic that she pioneered.

Elizabeth Otto

The Americas

Notes from the Archive: MoMA and the Internationalization of Haitian Painting, 1942-1948

Through a close analysis of documents in the MoMA Archives, this essay challenges the dominant narrative about the development and internationalization of Haitian art in the 1940s.

Marta Dansie and Abigail Lapin Dardashti

The Americas | One Work, Many Voices

Part 3: The Anonymous Rule: Joaquín Torres-García, the Schematic Impulse, and Arcadian Modernity

ator Luis Pérez-Oramas considers the roots of the classicizing and modernist impulses in the work of Joaquín Torres-García. The essay examines a driving paradox of the artist’s work—the will to be modern while working against the grain of modernity—following episodes in his life, writings, and works.

Nene Aissatou Diallo

Central & Eastern Europe | One Work, Many Voices

“Kazimierz Malewicz 1876–1935” by Władysław Strzemiński: Artist’s Book as Hommage

In 1936, the year after Kazimir Malevich’s death, Polish artist Władysław Strzemiński and his students in Łódź produced an album in honor of the Russian avant-garde master. Malevich’s legacy in Poland was well established by that time: his radical work in abstraction and Suprematism was embraced by artists and architects in the 1920s, many of…

Kim Conaty and Magdalena Moskalewicz