"Machine for Living Color" Exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art
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Concurrent with the exhibition "Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today," this installation of Library and Conservation Department materials documents color charting in twentieth-century publications, emphasizing commercial, art historical, and avant-garde works. These artists' books, industry publications, and other documentary materials exemplify the development of a color industry in this period— a machine for living color— and its influence on modern art, design, photography, and film. Materials include an industry-standard Munsell Color Book (c. 1930), a textile-industry sample book, and early paint color charts.
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Schedule
from March 03, 2008 to May 14, 2008