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Photography

Photography's Last Century The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection

Rosenheim Jeff L.

ISBN: HB: 9781588397089, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2020
184 pp., 27.9x23.4 cm, 134 colour illus.

Beginning with Paul Strand's landmark "From the Viaduct" in 1916 and continuing through the present day, "Photography's Last Century" examines defining moments in the history of the medium. Featuring nearly 100 masterworks, it includes both rare and...

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Music

Play It Loud Instruments of Rock & Roll

Dobney Jayson, Inciardi Craig, DeCurtis Anthony, DiPerna Alan, Fricke David, George-Warren Holly, Hill Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9781588396662, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2019
236 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 127 colour illus., 51 black&white illus.

Play It Loud celebrates the musical instruments that gave rock and roll its signature sound – from Louis Jordan's alto saxophone and John Lennon's Rickenbacker to the drum set owned by Metallica's Lars Ulrich, Lady Gaga's keytar, and beyond. Seven en...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Palmyra Mirage in the Desert

Aruz Joan

ISBN: PB: 9781588396310, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2018
160 pp., 25.4x20 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.

In this important and timely publication, top international scholars present current research and developments about the art, archaeology, and history of the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Syria. Palmyra became tragi...

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History of Art

Poetry of Nature Edo Paintings from the Fishbein-Bender Collection

Carpenter John, Oka Midori

ISBN: PB: 9781588396549, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2018
224 pp., 27.3x24.1 cm, 125 colour illus.

"The Poetry of Nature" offers an in-depth look at more than 40 extraordinary Japanese paintings that represent every major school and movement of the Edo period, including Kano, Rinpa, Nanga, Zen, Maruyama-Shij?, and Ukiyo-e. The unifying theme is a...

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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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History of Art

Piero Della Francesca Personal Encounters

Christiansen Keith

ISBN: PB: 9780300199468, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2014
96 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 40 colour illus.

This book tells the story of Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca (1411/13-1492) by focusing on four paintings he created over the span of his career. It also provides the first study of his small-scale devotional paintings, including the...

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History of Art

Passions of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

Draper James David, Papet Edouard, Carrara Elena, Horner Nadege, de Margerie Laure, Poinsignon Jean-Claude, Ward-Jackson Philip

ISBN: HB: 9780300204315, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2014
400 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 275 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875) was an extraordinarily gifted sculptor – the greatest in 19th-century France before Rodin – and embodied the emotionally charged artistic climate of his era. The passionate Carpeaux comes alive in this handsome new...

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Photography

Photography of the American Civil War

Rosenheim Jeff L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300191806, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2013
256 pp., 22.9x27.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

Six hundred thousand lives were lost between 1861 and 1865, making the conflict between North and South the nation's deadliest war. If the "War Between the States" was the test of the young republic's commitment to its founding precepts, it was also...

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Fashion

Punk Chaos to Couture

Bolton Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780300191851, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2013
224 pp., 25x15 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

Since its origins in the 1970s, punk has had an incendiary influence on fashion. With its eclectic mixing of stylistic references, punk effectively introduced the postmodern concept of bricolage not only into directional ready-to-wear but also into t...

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History of Art

Paintings and Drawings in the Wrightsman Collection

Fahy Everett, Rosenberg Pierre, Barker Elizabeth E., Goldner George, Ives Colta, Rewald Sabine, Stein Perrin, Tinterow Gary

ISBN: HB: 9780300107197, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2005
320 pp., 28x22.8 cm, 180 colour illus.

This lavish catalogue presents 150 European paintings, pastels, and drawings from the late fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century that have been given to the Metropolitan Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman or are still held in Mrs. Wrightsman...

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