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History of Art

American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 1: Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1835

Avery Kevin J., Conway Claire A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300093728, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2002
444 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 450 black&white illus., 126 colour illus.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art began acquiring American drawings in 1880 and has since amassed a collection of more than 1400 works in watercolour, pastel, ink, graphite, chalk and charcoal. This catalogue, the first volume in a series devoted to the...

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Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages

Eco Umberto, Bredin Hugh

ISBN: PB: 9780300093049, Yale University Press, March 2002
144 pp., 19.5x11.8 cm

In this volume, the Italian novelist and playwright Umberto Eco aims to present a learned summary of mediaeval aesthetic ideas. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the relationship that existed between the aesthetic t...

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Contemporary Art

At Memory's Edge After-images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture

Young James E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300094138, Yale University Press, February 2002
256 pp., 23.4x17.8 cm, 56 black&white illus., 47 colour illus.

How should Germany commemorate the mass murder of Jews once committed in its name? James E. Young, the only foreigner and the only Jew to serve on the German commission to select a design for a national Holocaust memorial, tells the inside story of t...

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Contemporary Art

Ambition and Love in Modern American Art

Weinberg Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300081879, Yale University Press, April 2001
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 175 illus.

Freud wrote that the artist "desires to win honour, power, wealth, fame, and the love of women". In this engrossing book, Jonathan Weinberg investigates how an artist's ambition interacts with his or her art, how wealth and celebrity play a role in t...

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American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 2: Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Between 1865 and 1885

Hassler Donna J., Marter Joan M., Tolles Thayer, Thompson Jerry L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300088472, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2001
350 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 182 black&white illus., 18 colour illus.

This is the second volume of a two-volume set that records the distinguished collection of late-nineteenth- and early-twentiety-century American sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The book presents nearly two hundred works by seventy sculpt...

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American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 1: Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1865

Hassler Donna J., Marter Joan M., Tolles Thayer, Thompson Jerry L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300085174, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2001
480 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 198 black&white illus., 29 colour illus.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a distinguished and comprehensive collection of late nineteenth-century American sculpture, particularly strong in neoclassical and Beaux Arts works and acclaimed for its preeminent group of lifesize statues in marb...

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Albert Memorial The Prince Consort National Memorial: Its History, Contexts and Conservation

Brooks Chris

ISBN: HB: 9780300073119, Yale University Press, September 2000
456 pp., 33x16.5 cm, 112 black&white illus., 200 colour illus.

A study of the Albert Memorial. It tells the history, discusses the symbolism, and gives an account of the recent restoration of this 19th-century monument. In commemorating Prince Albert, the Memorial exemplified the age, its material achievements,...

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Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Messinger Lisa Mintz

ISBN: HB: 9780300085655, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2000
176 pp., 27.8x15.4 cm, 60 colour illus.

The author explores little-known works on paper by nineteen leading artists.

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Ancient Egypt in the Metropolitan Museum Journal Volume 1-11: 1968-1976

Aldred Cyril

ISBN: HB: 9780300085686, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2000
209 pp., 27.8x15.4 cm, 224 illus.

Anyone interested in ancient Egypt will give a warm welcome to this handy book with which the fine Metropolitan Museum of Arts of New York reunites a series of papers written by famous names such as C. Aldred and H.G. Fischer, originally issued in it...

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Pelican History of Art

Arts of China to AD 900

Watson William

ISBN: PB: 9780300082845, Yale University Press, April 2000
280 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 300 black&white illus., 96 colour illus.

This is a survey of China's wealth of art, architecture and artefacts from prehistoric times to the 20th century. It investigates the beginnings of the traditions on which much of the art rests, moving from Neolithic and Bronze Age China to the era o...

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