Kynaston McShine, un curador de origen trinitense, moldeó profundamente la trayectoria del arte moderno y contemporáneo. Su trabajo pionero en el arte minimalista y conceptual sentó las bases cruciales para exposiciones e interpretaciones posteriores de estos movimientos. El talento de McShine para conectar artistas con el público y revelar nuevas perspectivas lo convirtió en una figura instrumental en la práctica curatorial del siglo XX. Sus exposiciones fueron a menudo audaces y visionarias, ofreciendo a los lectores una profunda visión del mundo de la vanguardia y su evolución.
The most comprehensive survey of Cornell's work with detailed biography. --alibris.comEssays originally published on the occasion of the exhibition Joseph Cornell, November 17, 1980 - January 20, 1981, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
This is a lovingly edited coffee-table soft-cover exhibition catalog of an historical survey held at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York in the fall of 1984, showing many interesting artist's with artworks from the early 1980's. MoMA's Kynaston L. McShine curated the exhibition. Thanks to careful editorial work by Harriet Schoenholz Bee and Jane Fluegel, this publication, handsomely designed by Stephen Doyle and Thomas Kluepfel, is a reliable art historical and a unique archival document where each exhibited artist is given their deserved recognition with a brief biography along with photographs of the exhibited artworks. Printed in the United States of America.