AAW Live! A Virtual Talk with Leah Dickerman
Driven from Europe first by the Nazi conquest of France and then the Blitz in London, the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) settled in New York City where his “mind was blown” by a form of jazz whose popularity was sweeping the city—Boogie Woogie.
Mondrian expressed the revelations of this sonic encounter in some of the best-known and best-loved mid-century abstract paintings.
Leah Dickerman, Director of Research Programs at the Museum of Modern Art, will explore some of the contexts and meanings expressed by one of the artist’s most iconic and beloved works, Broadway Boogie Woogie, which MoMA acquired in 1943, only a few months after Mondrian completed it.
Presented by the Associates of the American Wing with help from the Ida and Conrad H. Smith Fund.
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