books by New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ...     books:       Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)9 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.             Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings14 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 ...             John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker4 reviews Morrison H. Heckscher Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2005 Fascinating view of Newport Furinure and Maker The gulf between appreciation and understanding is immense and while anyone can look upon a John Townsend highboy and see that it is beautiful, understanding the world in which it was built (which was without electric tools), the builder and the technological aspect of cabinetry makes these fine pieces of furniture all the more awe-inspiring. John Townsend, who was a shining star in the rather ...             Tutankhamun's Tomb: The Thrill of Discovery4 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 ...             Christian Dior4 reviews Richard Martin, Harold Koda, ... Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 1996 An Exquisite Album of Christian Dior's Work This is a portrait album of a sampling of Christian Dior's masterpieces shown in the 1996 New York Metropolitain Museum of Art's retrospective. Every garment is beautifully captured. The detail photographs are exceptional. But this is more than just a picture book about the 11 years Dior designed under his own name. The text offers a balance of historical costume references that Dior used in ...             Fra Angelico4 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 ...             The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide4 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 ...             Extreme beauty : the body transformed5 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 ...             Go in and Out the Window9 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 ...             Vincent's Colors: Words and Pictures by Vincent Van Gogh / [Edited by William Lach]6 reviews Vincent Van Gogh Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2005 a book to treasure I used this book for many lessons, integrating the visual art as well as the writing component. very lovely, easy for young children to relate to, stimulates their own artisty and a lovely book to own.             Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford2 reviews Sanford Robinson Gifford, Kevin J. Avery, ... Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2003 Revisiting Sanford Robinson Gifford One of the American masters of landscape painting in the nineteenth century was Sanford Robinson Gifford, and though he was highly celebrated in his lifetime, his name appears now only occasionally when the topic of the Hudson River School of art is discussed. This excellent monograph, which accompanied an exhibition of his work in 2003 - 2004, serves to restore the reputation of one of our less ...             Canaletto2 reviews J. G. Links Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 1990 View Painter Extraordinaire J. G. Links is widely recognized as the reigning authority on the Venetian painter Canaletto. This masterful book is probably the most extensive study on the painter available in the English language. In addition to Links' very entertaining prose his book is filled with color plates of over 200 of Canaletto's paintings and sketches. Little is known about Canaletto's life and Links does not try ...             Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-18603 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 ...             Fairyland: In Art and Poetry2 reviews N. Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2001 A SUPERB PAIRING OF ART AND POETRY British artist Richard Doyle (1824-1883), the son of a portrait painter and caricaturist, may be best remembered by some as the creator of the cover design for Punch, which was used for over a century. He also illustrated a number of children's books and created beguiling paintings of fairies, the wee folk. It is the latter that is used to illustrate this lovely keepsake volume. Doyle's ...             I Dreamed I Was a Ballerina3 reviews Anna Pavlova Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2001 The Beginning of a Dream..... Taken from her 1922 memoirs, Pages Of My Life, dancer Anna Pavlova tells of her first experience at the ballet as a little girl. Her simple and gentle words are full of imagery and passion as she relates the wonder of watching the Sleeping Beauty ballet...the sounds of Tchaikovsky's music, the mesmerizing beauty of the dancers, and the roar of the audience. On that thrilling afternoon her love ...             Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus3 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.             Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings3 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.             Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei2 reviews Wen Fong, James C. Y. Watt Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 1996 A collection of excellent articles This book was published not only as a catalogue for the great exhibition "Splendors of Imperial China", also as a collection of excellent articles by leading scholars in the field of Chinese art and cultural history. Some of the most precious items selected for the exhibition eventually were not able to make it to the United States, nontheless they are included in the book(now you get a chance to ...             Only the Best: Masterpieces of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon2 reviews N. Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 1999 Oil and Art The first two decades of the 20th century were marked by military conflicts, civil wars, genocide and famine. During these hard times a dozen of individuals from both sides of the Atlantic became extremely wealthy by founding oil companies. Among them was Calouste Gulbekian who had generated tremendous wealth from his oil dealings in the Middle East and Russia. Along with his knowledge of the ...             Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence3 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 ...              search for books 1840-1860, angelico, ballerina, cabinetmaker, calouste, canaletto, christian, discovery, drawings, fairyland, gulbenkian, impressed, landscapes, magnificence, masterpieces, mediterranean, metropolitan, millennium, negatives, photographs, pictures, portraits, possessing, publications, renaissance, tapestry, townsend, transformed, treasures, tutankhamun books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Anna Karenina (Cliffs Notes) leave a comment home  impressum - about us