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Title: Objects of Design: The Museum of Modern Art by Paola Antonelli ISBN: 0-87070-696-9 Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, New York Pub. Date: August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95

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Summary: Objects of Design from The Museum of Modern Art
Comment: MoMA canonized modern design as it did 20th-century art, and this anthology of pictures and expert texts highlights a collection of 3,708 objects that range in size from microchips to a helicopter. About a tenth of those are illustrated in nine thematic sections. Many are icons, but there are a few surprises, especially among recent acquisitions, where the inventive use of materials supplants functional beauty. Paola Antonelli, MoMA Curator of Architecture and Design, describes the collection as presenting a history of ideas and realizing a part of Alfred Barr's dream of a unity of the arts. She explains how the old selection criteria of truth and beauty have changed while retaining some of their old authority. It's comforting to know that relativism does not yet extend to firearms, making MoMA's collection a gun-free zone. (Michael Webb is the book reviewer for LA Architect magazine.)

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