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Cezanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)

5 reviews

Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2006

At Last, a Tribute to an Art Dealer!
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has produced yet another fine curatorial statement with their exhibition 'Cezanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde' and fortunately the accompanying catalogue is as bold and beautiful as the exhibition itself. The concept of discussing artists of international stature from the stance of the man who gave their careers the jumpstart needed is ...

Vermeer and the Delft School

5 reviews
Walter;Metropolitan Museum of Art;Baarsen, Reinier;Plomp, Michiel;Ruger Liedtke

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Middle Village, New York, U.S.A., 2001

Magnificent
This is a catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition "Vermeer and the Delft School" held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, from March 8 to May 27, 2001 and The National Gallery, London, from June 20 to September 16, 2001. It is written by Walter Liedtke, Curator in the Department of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York with contributions from ...

Extreme beauty : the body transformed

5 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 ...

Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)

10 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.

Go in and Out the Window

11 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 ...

I Dreamed I Was a Ballerina

6 reviews
Anna Pavlova

Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2001

Beautiful, Moving
Yes, this is a beautiful, moving story of a girl's dream come true. I bought it for my 6 year-old grandaughter who loves her ballet lessons. I hope the book will encourage her to pursue her own dreams, whatever they may be. This is an example of a classic in children's literature. It can be read again and again and has life lessons for the young and the old.

Can You Find It Outside?

4 reviews
Jessica Schulte

Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2005

Outside is a winner!
I gave this book to my 2 1/2-year-old granddaughter for Christmas and it was an immediate hit. She asked to have it read to her right away and had great fun listening to the rhyme on each page and finding the answer to the rhyme in the artwork. The mix of paintings gives her lots of new images to look at and think about, very different from most of the pictures in her other books. The ...

Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence

5 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 ...

Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings

14 reviews
Vincent Van Gogh

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 ...

Vincent's Colors: Words and Pictures by Vincent Van Gogh / [Edited by William Lach]

9 reviews
Vincent Van Gogh

Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2005

Linking Literacy and the Arts
I have been an early childhood educator for over 36 years and am delighted that "Vincent's Colors" is available to my young students, ages 3-6. It is an exquisite introduction not only to the work of Vincent VanGogh but to the observation of color and art forms. In addition, the vocabulary associated with each picture links literacy to this introduction to art. Research clearly shows that the ...

Fra Angelico

4 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 ...

Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe

3 reviews
Wolfram Koeppe

Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2008

It's got to be seen to be believed!
I've just returned from seeing the exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and now I can't wait to have the book. I saw the book while I was in the Met's Book Shop and it is absolutely great with so many pictures of the items on exhibit. If you can't get to the exhibit which is on thru Sept. 21st, this book is the next best thing!

Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings

4 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.

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 ...

Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860

3 reviews
Roger Taylor

Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2007

Impressed by a Book
With a lifetime of amateur photography, I'm ashamed to admit how totally ignorant I was of the true origins and evolution of photography as we know it. This book is a revelation in that regard. It is totally absorbing in its own right as it describes of a part of reasonably recent history. It is extremely well written, researched, documented and presented.I read every word of the text, spent ...

Hatshepsut, from Queen to Pharaoh

3 reviews

Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2005

Magnificent collection of essays and photographs.
This is one of the best books that I've seen on the art, symbolism and life in Ancient Egypt. Set within the reign of Hatshepsut, a royal wife and queen who transformed herself into Pharaoh, it looks at the lives of royal women from the images and personal artifacts that have been left behind. Each chapter takes a look at aspects of Hatshepsut's reign and life, as well as the architect ...

John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker

4 reviews
Morrison H. Heckscher

Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2005

A Woodworker's perspective
This was originally written for the Washington Woodworkers Guild Newsletter, Sept 2007 This lavishly photographed book is a summary of all the currently known and likely works by John Townsend and his shop in Newport in the late 18th century. It is the catalogue associated with the 2005 exhibit of John Townsend's works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2005. This is not a ...

The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry

3 reviews
Timothy Husband

Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2008

A marvelous book on a marvelous book
The catalogue for an exhibition held at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Met in NYC, this is an erudite and wonderfully illustrated book on one of the treasures of Western art. The text is very complete, with an in-depth study of the meaning of the manuscript, a description of the decoration of the pages, a thorough biography of the Limbourg Brothers and of the Duc de Berry, their biggest ...

Tutankhamun's Tomb: The Thrill of Discovery

4 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 ...

Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus

3 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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