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Contemporary Art

Like Life Sculpture, Color, and the Body

Syson Luke, Wagstaff Sheena, Bowyer Emerson, Kumar Brinda, Hillel Schwartz

ISBN: HB: 9781588396440, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2018
312 pp., 29.2x20.3 cm, 284 colour illus.

Since the earliest myths of the sculptor Pygmalion bringing a statue to life through desire, artists have explored the boundaries between sculpture and the physical materiality of the body. This groundbreaking volume examines key sculptural works fro...

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History of Art

Age of Empires Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties

Sun Zhixin, Hsing I-tien, Liu Cary Y., Lu Pengliang, Lan-ying Tseng Lillian, Yates Robin D. S., Hong Yang, Yakina Zhang Zhonglin

ISBN: HB: 9781588396174, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2017
336 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 325 colour illus.

The first in-depth exploration of the artistic and cultural achievements of China's "classical" era. "Age of Empires" presents the art and culture of China during one of the most critical periods of its history – the four centuries from 221 B.C. to...

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History of Art

Fragonard Drawing Triumphant

Stein Perrin, Dupuy-Vachey Marie-Anne, Williams Eunice, Brosnan Kelsey

ISBN: HB: 9781588396013, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2016
320 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 250 colour illus.

An exquisitely illustrated volume that emphasizes the importance of drawing in Fragonard's creative process One of the most forward-looking artists in 18th-century France, Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is considered the preeminent draftsman of hi...

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History of Art

How to Read Medieval Art

Stein Wendy A.

ISBN: PB: 9781588395979, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2016
136 pp., 26.5x20.5 cm, 141 colour illus.

An enlightening, accessible guide to understanding and appreciating European art from the Middle Ages How to Read Medieval Art introduces the art of the European Middle Ages through 50 notable examples from the Metropolitan Museum's collection, which...

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History of Art

Power of Prints The Legacy of William Ivins and Hyatt Mayor

Spira Freyda, Parshall Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781588395856, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2016
208 pp., 26.7x22.2 cm, 200 colour illus.

Metropolitan Museum curators William M. Ivins and his protege A. Hyatt Mayor not only assembled a vast collection of prints, from Renaissance masterworks to ephemeral works, but also expanded the appreciation of prints as aesthetic objects, socio-his...

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Decorative Arts

Jewels by JAR

Sassoon Adrian

ISBN: HB: 9780300198683, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2013
120 pp., 22.9x20.3 cm, 65 colour illus.

Called "the Faberge of our time" by Diane von Furstenberg, Joel A. Rosenthal, who works in Paris under the name JAR, is one of the most acclaimed jewellery designers of the past thirty years. JAR is known for his use of precious and semi-precious sto...

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