"Degas to Picasso: Painters, Sculptors, and the Camera"

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

Now that photography and its video and digital offspring have usurped painting as the "postmodern" media of choice, the question of photography's status as a fine art (worried over since its invention in 1839) is largely obviated; but at the turn of the last century, the debate raged furious. Organized by Dorothy Kosinski of the Dallas Museum of Art and Douglas R. Nickel of SF MoMA, this selection of 364 paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs by artists from Degas to Picasso focuses on that period of vivid interface (1885-1915), when the still-new technology locked horns with "the ancient craft of the beautiful." Oct. 2, 1999-Jan. 2, 2000; travels to Dallas Museum of Art and Guggenheim Bilbao, dates to be announced.

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