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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide 4 reviews
N. Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, Philippe De Montebello
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 1994
A Solid Survey of Art in addition to a Fine Museum Guide
Before committing a couple of days to museum hopping while in New York City, a word to the wise: this book is a must for understanding the scope of the collection of the paintings, drawings, sculpture, architectural renderings, relics - everything that makes the Metropolitan Museum one of the most 'compleat' collections in the world.
Yes, the book does show outlines of the museum's layout to ...
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Go in and Out the Window9 reviews
Dan Fox
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 1987
Go in and Out the Window
This looks like a book for children, and it is. But even more important, it is a book for babies! My two year old baby boy already knew some of the songs going into the book. Let me tell you that at two and two months he now requests "Bringing in the Sheaves." and "Down by the Riverside." Every night we take that book to bed and we sing and sing until we fall asleep. This is of course after ...
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Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings13 reviews
Vincent Van Gogh, Colta Feller Ives
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2005
Drawing at the highest level
Lord Kenneth Clark, at the end of his book and television series, Civilization, said he had come to believe that there was such a thing as "genius". After looking through this book, so will you.
With over 350 drawings, mostly reproduced in color, and dozens more color reproductions of paintings, this will no doubt be the definitive work of the artist's drawings. We see many of his early ...
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Extreme beauty : the body transformed5 reviews
Harold Koda
New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001
Human preoccupation for Millennia
Sentient humans with brains as well as bodies have always been fascinated by the way we adorn ourselves and why. Once we can get past the cultural anthropology of fashion, and the fads that make it a billion-dollar world industry, we can dig down to discover the roots of historical and current adorned beauty, and EXTREME BEAUTY does this . . . beautifully. It is pleasing--in an era in which ...
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Vincent's Colors: Words and Pictures by Vincent Van Gogh / [Edited by William Lach]6 reviews
Vincent Van Gogh
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2005
a book to treasure
I used this book for many lessons, integrating the visual art as well as the writing component. very lovely, easy for young children to relate to, stimulates their own artisty and a lovely book to own.
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Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus3 reviews
N. Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2003
Superb
This is a superbly illustrated and written book, with photographs of renown artifacts from museums around the world, and even more outstanding essays by relevant scholars. I suspect anyone interested in Ancient Art from the formative stages (3000-2000 BCE) of the world's first civilizations will enjoy reading this book.
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John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker4 reviews
Morrison H. Heckscher
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2005
Fascinating view of Newport Furinure and Maker
The gulf between appreciation and understanding is immense and while anyone can look upon a John Townsend highboy and see that it is beautiful, understanding the world in which it was built (which was without electric tools), the builder and the technological aspect of cabinetry makes these fine pieces of furniture all the more awe-inspiring. John Townsend, who was a shining star in the rather ...
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Christian Dior4 reviews
Richard Martin, Harold Koda
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 1996
An Exquisite Album of Christian Dior's Work
This is a portrait album of a sampling of Christian Dior's masterpieces shown in the 1996 New York Metropolitain Museum of Art's retrospective. Every garment is beautifully captured. The detail photographs are exceptional. But this is more than just a picture book about the 11 years Dior designed under his own name. The text offers a balance of historical costume references that Dior used in ...
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Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)9 reviews
Sabine Rewald
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2006
Long Wait for an Excellent Book
Finally an excellent review of what the first World War did to German culture and psyche. This book lays it all out. Hitler was a logical consequence. Unfortunately the Western world did not pay enough attention to these portentious signs. The book has beautiful color reproductions, great detailed commentary on each artist featured and enaough historical commentary to make it all plausible.
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Fra Angelico4 reviews
Laurence B. Kanter
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2005
Fra Angelico: A Reevaluation and Appreciation
FRA ANGELICO may be a museum catalogue for the current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, but it is also one of the more impressive historical documents on this important painter and his influence on the world of art in the library today. The book is a masterwork of scholarship and visual examples of this 15th Century artist.
Words fail in describing the degree of ...
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Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings3 reviews
Anne-Marie S. Logan, Peter Paul Rubens, ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2005
Beautiful presentation
This magnificent book presents a selection of drawings by Rubens. The color reproductions are beautiful and sensitive - a must for all those who enjoy to look and learn from this artist. A thoroughly enjoyable book and truly professional presentation.
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Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-18602 reviews
Roger Taylor
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2007
Impressed by Impressed by Light!
It was great to read parts of this book before going to see the exhibit at the National Gallery here in DC. I was almost completely unfamiliar with Fox Talbot and the process he invented - calotypes - the forerunner of the common negative and print technique. The quality of the reporductions in the book is excellent compared with the actual prints in the exhibit although nothing can compare to ...
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Fairyland: In Art and Poetry2 reviews
N. Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2001
A SUPERB PAIRING OF ART AND POETRY
British artist Richard Doyle (1824-1883), the son of a portrait painter and caricaturist, may be best remembered by some as the creator of the cover design for Punch, which was used for over a century. He also illustrated a number of children's books and created beguiling paintings of fairies, the wee folk. It is the latter that is used to illustrate this lovely keepsake volume. Doyle's ...
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Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence3 reviews
Thomas P. Campbell
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2002
Truly magnificient!
I had no idea how important a medium tapestry was prior to stumbling on the Met exhibition during a recent visit to NYC and then reading this book. I was amazed to learn the amount of money spent to produce (and purchase!) them, and how important the industry was to the economy of the time . Anyone who thinks of tapestries as beige, boring and historically insignificant is in for a surprise. As ...
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Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford2 reviews
Sanford Robinson Gifford, Kevin J. Avery, ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2003
Revisiting Sanford Robinson Gifford
One of the American masters of landscape painting in the nineteenth century was Sanford Robinson Gifford, and though he was highly celebrated in his lifetime, his name appears now only occasionally when the topic of the Hudson River School of art is discussed. This excellent monograph, which accompanied an exhibition of his work in 2003 - 2004, serves to restore the reputation of one of our less ...
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I Dreamed I Was a Ballerina3 reviews
Anna Pavlova
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2001
The Beginning of a Dream.....
Taken from her 1922 memoirs, Pages Of My Life, dancer Anna Pavlova tells of her first experience at the ballet as a little girl. Her simple and gentle words are full of imagery and passion as she relates the wonder of watching the Sleeping Beauty ballet...the sounds of Tchaikovsky's music, the mesmerizing beauty of the dancers, and the roar of the audience. On that thrilling afternoon her love ...
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Only the Best: Masterpieces of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon2 reviews
N. Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 1999
Oil and Art
The first two decades of the 20th century were marked by military conflicts, civil wars, genocide and famine. During these hard times a dozen of individuals from both sides of the Atlantic became extremely wealthy by founding oil companies. Among them was Calouste Gulbekian who had generated tremendous wealth from his oil dealings in the Middle East and Russia. Along with his knowledge of the ...
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Canaletto2 reviews
J. G. Links
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 1990
View Painter Extraordinaire
J. G. Links is widely recognized as the reigning authority on the Venetian painter Canaletto. This masterful book is probably the most extensive study on the painter available in the English language. In addition to Links' very entertaining prose his book is filled with color plates of over 200 of Canaletto's paintings and sketches. Little is known about Canaletto's life and Links does not try ...
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Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei2 reviews
Wen Fong, James C. Y. Watt
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 1996
A collection of excellent articles
This book was published not only as a catalogue for the great exhibition "Splendors of Imperial China", also as a collection of excellent articles by leading scholars in the field of Chinese art and cultural history. Some of the most precious items selected for the exhibition eventually were not able to make it to the United States, nontheless they are included in the book(now you get a chance to ...
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Tutankhamun's Tomb: The Thrill of Discovery3 reviews
Harry Burton
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2006
This book is highly recommended -- a great gift for the Egypt lover in your life!
If you thought you'd seen everything there was to see about the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, you were wrong! This amazing book is an invaluable addition to the Tut library. I picked up a copy of the book while visiting the Metropolitan Museum, and I can't recommend this book highly enough. The original excavation photos are beautiful and truly give you a sense of what it must have ...
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