An intriguing and vibrant study of an innovative and lesser-known facet of contemporart art. Identifies significant strategies exploited by European artists to extend their aesthetic vision within the mediums of prints, books and multiples. Exploring commercial techniques, confrontational approaches and language and the expressionist impulse. Showcases the creativity being channelled into printed art by todays generation.

Volume covers the Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books, not the collection of artists' books.

Essay by Deborah Wye. Foreword by Glenn D. Lowry.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's remarkable series of paintings known as the Berlin Street Scenes is a highpoint of the artist's work and a milestone of German Expressionism, widely seen as a metaphor for modernity itself through their depiction of life in a major metropolis. Kirchner moved from Dresden to Berlin in 1911, and it was in this teeming city, immersed in its vitality, decadence and underlying sense of danger posed by the imminent World War I, that he created the Street Scenes in a sustained burst of creative energy and ambition between 1913 and 1915. As the most extensive consideration of these paintings in English, this richly illustrated volume examines the creative process undertaken by the artist as he explores his theme through various mediums, and presents the major body of related charcoal drawings, pen-and-ink studies, pastels, etchings, woodcuts and lithographs he created in addition to the paintings. The volume also investigates the significance of the streetwalker as a primary motif, and provides insight on the series in the context of Kirchner's wider oeuvre.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Picasso: Themes and Variations" held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y., Mar. 24-Sept. 6, 2010.

Artists: Vito Acconci, Jerri Allyn, Luis Alonso, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Ida Applebroog, Tomie Arai, Robert Arneson, Eric Avery, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Sonia Balassanian, Rudolf Baranik, Romare Bearden, Nan Becker, Rudy Begay, Leslie Bender, Jonathan Borofsky, Louise Bourgeois, Vivian Browne, Chris Burden, Luis Camnitzer, Josely Carvalho, Sabra Moore, Elizabeth Catlett, Judy Chicago, Miriam Schapiro, Eva Cockcroft, Sue Coe, Michael Corris, Carlos Cortez, Anton van Dalen, Jane Dickson, Jim Dine, James Dong, Mary Beth Edelson, Melvin Edwards, Marguerite Elliot, John Fekner, Mary Frank, Antonio Frasconi, Rupert Garcia, Sharon Gilbert, MIke Glier, Leon Golub, Nancy Spero, Peter Gourfain, Ilona Granet, Dolores Guerrero-Cruz, Marina Gutiérrez, Hans Haacke, David Hammons, Keith Haring, Edgar Heap of Birds, Jenny Holzer, Rebecca Howland, Arlan Huang, Robert Indiana, Carlos Irezarry, Alfredo Jaar, Luis Jimenez, Jasper Johns, Jerry Kearns, Edward Kienholz, Janet Koenig, Margia Kramer, Barbara Kruger, Suzanne Lacy, Jean LaMarr, Jacob Lawrence, Michael Lebron, Colin Lee, Jack Levine, Les Levine, Robert Longo, Paul Marcus, Marisol, Dona Ann McAdams, Yong Soon Mim, Richard Mock, Josely Carvalho, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Nechvatal, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Paschke, Adrian Piper, Susan Pyzow, Robert Rauschenberg, Faith Ringgold, Larry Rivers, Elizabetth Rodriguez, Tim Rollins, Rachael Romero, Leon Klayman, James Rosenquist, Martha Rosler, Erika Rothenberg, Christy Rupp, Jos Sances, Juan Sánches, Peter Saul, Ben Shahn, Marguerite Elliot, Mimi Smith, Vincent Smith, Nancy Spero, Frank Stella, May Stevens, Mark di Suvero, Dennis Thomas, Day Gleeson, Francesc Torres, Andy Warhol, John Pitman Weber, William Wiley, John Woo, Qris Yamashita.

Modern means is The Museum of Modern Art's first collaborative project wth the Mori Art Museum. Modern means is meant to provoke innovative ideas and a fresh understanding of the history of art in the modern period.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Louis Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait" held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 24, 2017-January 28, 2018.

For the past 30 years, American artist Chuck Close (b. 1940) has concentrated on essentially one subject: the human face. This volume, the most comprehensive assessment of Close's work yet published, includes portraits of Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Alex Katz, Lucas Samaras, and others. It accompanies a mid-career retrospective opening at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in February 1998. 178 illustrations, 113 in color.