MODERN INTERIORS, 1939, EMILY GENAUER, RENOWED ART CRITIC, 1ST EDITION, NEW YORK

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MODERN INTERIORS, 1939, EMILY GENAUER, RENOWED ART CRITIC, 1ST EDITION, NEW YORK:
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Modern interiors today and tomorrow; a critical analysis of trends in contemporary decoration as seen at the Paris exposition of arts and techniques and reflected at the New York World\'s Fair.
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Emily GenauerIllustrated Editions Company, Inc., NY, NY, 1939. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. First Edition, first printing. Condition: Tan beveled bds., with brown titles & red author\'s name to front bd. & spine, exterior pg. edges are all stained brown (by publisher), 255 pp. There is some light soiling to covers and staining to edges cover gutter. the pages are very clean. The dustjacket has some edge tears repaired with archival book tape.
Emily Genauer was an art critic who championed 20th-century painting and sculpture over the course of a four-decade newspaper career and won a Pulitzer Prize for criticism

Starting out as the critic for The New York World in the 1930\'s, Ms. Genauer made it her mission to introduce modern artists like Marc Chagall and Diego Rivera to a newspaper audience. She also staunchly defended art\'s independence from politics. In 1949, she left The New York World-Telegram after an argument with its owner, Roy W. Howard, who thought she was paying too much attention to artists he considered \'\'Communists and left-wingers,\'\' like Pablo Picasso.

Ms. Genauer\'s columns for The New York Herald Tribune, where she was chief art critic from 1949 to 1966, were also watched closely by artists. In 1992 she recalled how the painter Clyfford Still, about whom she had written unfavorably, sent her a pair of rubber baby pants with a card. The card read: \'\'Hoping this will aid in concealing your Sunday affliction. With the compliments of Clyfford Still.\'\'