Degas, Painter of Ballerinas (Metropolitan Museum of Art the)(Pevná vazba)

Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Hoving Thomas)(Paperback)

From Simon & Schuster, Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a unforgettable autobiography for any arts and culture fans. A former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art reveals his bold and brash life at its pinnacle: the clandestine deals which secured blockbuster

Art =: Discovering Infinite Connections in Art History (Metropolitan Museum of Art)(Pevná vazba)

A fresh and unconventional approach to exploring 6,000 years of art history through 800 masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Featuring more than 800 artworks from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this groundbreaking book — organized by thematic keywords —

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings (Galitz Kathryn Calley)(Pevná vazba)

In line with best-selling The Louvre: All the Paintings, and Rizzoli's successful The Hermitage Collections and The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks, this title offers an exquisite tour, unique in its lavish illustration, scholarship, extent, and graceful packaging. As the first large survey

Fun with Hieroglyphs (Metropolitan Museum of Art)(Paperback)

Discover the secrets of hieroglyphs, the language of the ancient Egyptians, with this innovative kit from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Learn the sounds and letters of the hieroglyphic alphabet, find out which symbols were thought to have magical powers, and read how this mysterious language was

collections du Art et marges musee - Collection Strates(Pevná vazba)

Located in the heart of Brussels, the Art et Margins Museum, an outsider art museum, questions art and its borders. Text in English, French, and

Degas: Dance, Politics and Society (Degas Edgar)(Pevná vazba)

A radical reconception of Degas' sculpture through the lens of gender, labor and more, with new photography of the worksThis substantial new monograph on the work of Edgar Degas (1834-1917), one of the most significant artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, is a decisive contribution to the

The Imaginary Museum (Eastham Ben)(Pevná vazba)

Join the art critic Ben Eastham on a private tour of an extraordinary museum. Let him walk you through a building constructed from memory and filled with a series of bewildering art works, while he delivers a guide comprised of personal experience, professional expertise and sympathy. In this

The Letters of Edgar Degas (Reff Theodore)(Pevná vazba)

In this critical edition of Edgar Degas's correspondence, eminent Degas scholar Theodore Reff transcribes, dates, and elucidates more than 1,200 letters written by the artist. Presented both in the original French and in English translation, these letters reveal a range of the artist's interests

Degas and the Little Dancer(Paperback / softback)

The life and art of Degas are seen through the eyes of a

Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art, 1948-1988 (Clark Lygia)(Pevná vazba)

Published in conjunction with a major retrospective of the work of Brazilian painter, sculptor and performance artist Lygia Clark, this publication presents a linear and progressive survey of the artist's groundbreaking practice. Having trained with modern masters from the late 1940s to the

Scotland to the World - Treasures from the National Museum of Scotland(Pevná vazba)

Showcases over a hundred treasures from the collections of the National Museum of

The New Philistines (Ahmari Sohrab)(Pevná vazba)

Contemporary art is obsessed with the politics of identity. Visit any contemporary gallery, museum or theatre, and chances are the art on offer will be principally concerned with race, gender, sexuality, power and privilege.The quest for truth, freedom and the sacred has been thrust aside to make

Marvel Museum - The Story of the Comics (Hartley Ned)(Pevná vazba)

Wang Shu and Amateur Architecture Studio (Shu Wang)(Pevná vazba)

Accompanying an exhibition of the same name at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, this publication examines the recent work of the Chinese architect Wang Shu, Pritzker Prize winner in 2012. At a time when China's explosive urbanization is making inroads into rural areas and leaving the marks of

The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary (Rampley Matthew)(Pevná vazba)

A critical study of the history of public art museums in Austria-Hungary, examining their place in the wider history of European museums and collecting, their role as public institutions, and their involvement in the complex cultural politics of the Habsburg

American Modern: Hopper to O'Keeffe (Adler Esther)(Pevná vazba)

American Modern presents a fresh look at The Museum of Modern Art's holdings of American art made between 1915 and 1950, and considers the cultural preoccupations of a rapidly changing American society in the first half of the twentieth century. Organized thematically and featuring paintings,

Reflections: The American Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art (Maciejunes Nannette V.)(Paperback)

Reflections: The American Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art adds a novel and provocative element to the library of art museum collection catalogs. In the traditional manner, Reflections features selected works--more than 125--from the museum's collection, accompanied by concise essays by

Museum of Broken Promises (Buchan Elizabeth)(Pevná vazba)

The stunning new novel from bestselling Elizabeth Buchan. The Museum of Broken Promises is a beautiful, evocative love story and heart-breaking journey in to a long-buried

Taft Museum of Art: Highlights from the Collection (Ambrosini Lynne D.)(Pevná vazba)

Donated to the city of Cincinnati in 1927, Charles and Anna Taft's collection features beautiful porcelain from the Ming and Qing dynasties, paintings by masters including Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Goya, Ingres, Corot, Whistler, and Sargent, and decorative objects including crystal, gold, silver,

Korean Art from the 19th Century to the Present (Horlyck Charlotte)(Pevná vazba)

Walk the galleries of any major contemporary art museum and you are sure to see a work by a Korean artist. Interest in modern and contemporary art from South--as well as North--Korea has grown in recent decades, and museums and individual collectors have been eager to tap into this rising market

Ultimate Art Museum (Gipson Ferren)(Pevná vazba)

Visit the world's greatest museum without leaving your home through this imaginary art museum - a visually spectacular survey of world art for middle-grade readers (aged 8-14 years), curated in collaboration with a global team of experts and

Florine Stettheimer (Althaus Karin)(Pevná vazba)

When the Museum of Modern Art sent its first exhibition to Europe, Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) joined Georgia O'Keeffe as the only women included. Stettheimer's sensuous paintings and eccentric poetry earned her a place at the heart of the modernist avant-garde. The guest lists for her

Diane Arbus (Lubow Arthur)(Pevná vazba)

Her posthumous exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art a year later drew lines around the block. She was born into a Russian-Jewish family, the Nemerovs, who owned a department store on Fifth Avenue. Avedon rose to greater and greater commercial success through the magazine

Dippy - The Tale of a Museum Icon (Barrett Paul)(Pevná vazba)