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Making The Met, 1870-2020
ISBN: HB: 9781588397096, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2020
278 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 275 colour and black&white illus.
Published to celebrate the Museum's 150th anniversary, "Making The Met" examines the institution's evolution from an idea – that art can elevate anyone who has access to it – to one of the most beloved encyclopedic collections in the world. Focusing...
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£40,00
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Making Marvels Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe
ISBN: HB: 9781588396778, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2019
320 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 320 colour illus.
At once beautiful works of art and technological wonders, the objects featured in "Making Marvels" demonstrate how European royalty from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment signaled their status through their collections of ingeniously crafted inven...
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£50,00
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide
ISBN: PB: 9781588397003, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2019
456 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 600 colour illus.
More than a simple souvenir book, "The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide" provides a comprehensive view of art history spanning five millennia and the entire globe, beginning with the ancient world and ending in contemporary times. It includes media a...
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£18,99
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My Soul Has Grown Deep Black Art from the American South
ISBN: HB: 9781588396099, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2018
240 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.
A celebration of contemporary art by self-taught Black Southern artists. This book examines the art-historical significance of a major group of self-taught artists from the American South. "My Soul Has Grown Deep" features works by Black painters an...
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£25,00
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Michelangelo Divine Draftsman and Designer
ISBN: HB: 9781588396372, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2017
400 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 300 colour illus.
The Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was especially celebrated for his disegno, a term that embraces both drawing and conceptual design. Featuring more than 200 drawings as well as paintings, sculpture, and architectural...
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£50,00
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Marsden Hartley's Maine
ISBN: HB: 9781588396136, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2017
256 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 175 colour illus.
Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was a well-traveled American modernist painter, poet, and essayist, but it is his life-long artistic engagement with his home state of Maine that defines his career. Maine served as a creative springboard, a locus of memor...
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£38,00
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Max Beckmann in New York
ISBN: HB: 9781588396006, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2016
160 pp., 26.1x23.6 cm, 114 colour illus.
An up close and personal look at the life and work of a major 20th-century artist. The prominent German Expressionist painter Max Beckmann (1884-1950) is known for allegorical, autobiographical works that capture the doom and grotesquerie of World Wa...
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£30,00
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Maiolica Italian Renaissance Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: HB: 9781588395610, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2016
392 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 365 colour illus.
The brightly colored tin-enameled earthenware called maiolica was among the major accomplishments of decorative arts in 16th-century Italy. This in-depth look at the history of maiolica, told through 140 exemplary pieces from the world-class collecti...
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£50,00
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Manus x Machina Fashion in an Age of Technology
ISBN: PB: 9781588395924, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2016
256 pp., 31.8x23.5 cm, 200 colour illus.
The complex and often ambiguous relationship between the hand crafted and the machine made is examined in this intriguing look at the ever-changing world of fashion and taste. "Manus Machina" traces styles of dress from one-of-a-kind works and haute...
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£38,00
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Masterpieces of Islamic Arms and Armor In the Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: HB: 9781588395702, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2015
400 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 400 colour illus.
From its origins in the 7th century, armor and weaponry were central to Islamic culture not only as a means of conquest and the spread of faith, but also as symbols of status, wealth, and power. More than 120 exceptional examples from the renowned co...
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