What is it about?

When modern art was introduced in the USA, how did the Museum of Modern Art play a role? Which artists became part of US art history? The research shows, particularly for women, the MoMA is the filter mechanism for how and who we know in modern art.

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Why is it important?

This research shows the mechanism by how college art history textbooks exclude women artists

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While art history has examined MoMA for decades, sociology brings in new perspectives to an old institution.

Dr L.E.A. Braden
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

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This page is a summary of: From the Armory to academia: Careers and reputations of early modern artists in the United States, Poetics, October 2009, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2009.09.004.
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