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"Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth focuses on post-1945 painting, sculpture, works on paper, photography, and new media, including interactive and multimedia works. The catalogue comprises several extensive entries on areas of strength in the Hood Museum of Art's modern and contemporary collections as well as over one hundred color illustrated entries on individual works, many of which have never before been published. Featured artists include El Anatsui, Romare Bearden, Alexander Calder, Bob Haozous, Juan Munoz, Alice Ned, Amir Nom, Mark Rothko, Ed Ruscha, Alison Saar, Richard Serra, and Lorna Simpson." --Book Jacket.

"The Ludmilla and Henry Shapiro Collection of Soviet porcelain, which was acquired by the Museum in 1989, opens a window onto the life, culture, and politics of the Soviet Union from the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 to the advent of glasnost"-- Foreword.

Vols. for 1950, 1953- include its Annual Report 1949-1950, 1952-1953- .