The American West in Art: Selections from the Denver Art Museum (Smith Thomas Brent)(Pevná vazba)

The American West in Art: Selections from the Denver Art Museum (Smith Thomas Brent)(Pevná vazba)

- Presents a selection of works in the Petrie Institute of Western American Art collectionThis volume collects a selection of works of art produced in the western United States belonging to the collection of the Petrie Institute of Western American Art housed in the Denver Art Museum. This

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

West: The American Cowboy (Krantz Anouk Masson)(Pevná vazba)

-Exceptional fine art photography - several years in the making - of the American cowboy/cowgirl and rodeo communities, the horse and cattle ranches, and the remarkable landscape of America's Wild West, by celebrated and award-winning photographer, Anouk Masson Krantz -Intimate explorations and

Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem (Choi Connie H.)(Pevná vazba)

An authoritative guide to one of the world's most important collections of African-American art, with works by artists from Romare Bearden to Kehinde Wiley. The artists featured in Black Refractions, including Kerry James Marshall, Faith Ringgold, Nari Ward, Norman Lewis, Wangechi Mutu, and Lorna

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

The Art Museum in Modern Times (Saumarez Smith Charles)(Pevná vazba)

The National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy all saw either radical architectural interventions or rethinks of their mission under Charles Saumarez Smith's leadership, making him uniquely qualified to explore the ways in which art museums have changed over the past

Classical Art: A Life History from Antiquity to the Present (Vout Caroline)(Pevná vazba)

How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as 'classical' and as 'art'? What does 'classical art' mean across time and place? In this ambitious, richly illustrated book, art historian and

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

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

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,

The American Art Tapes: Voices of American Pop Art (Jones Nicolette)(Pevná vazba)

Tells the story of 1960s pop art through the voices of its creators In 1965, British artist and university lecturer John Jones left the United Kingdom with his wife and daughters to live in the United States for a year and interview some 100 artists. The family moved to Greenwich Village and spent

Jewels of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Treasures from the Worcester Art Museum (Lacovara Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Jewels of the Nile celebrates the very first time that the Worcester Art Museum's internationally important collection of Egyptian jewellery - which has undergone conservation and cleaning - has been shown together. This strikingly illustrated book introduces the reader to the collection of an

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

Cars! Cars! Cars!: Featuring Cars from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art (Weart Kimi)(Pevná vazba)

A lively picture book tie-in to Automania, The Museum of Modern Art's new exhibition on cars and car culture Rosario Abigail Bergen Delgado loves cars. She knows everything there is to know about cars. And she can't wait until she can drive a car. But which one should she choose? A race car? A spy

The Return of Curiosity: What Museums Are Good for in the 21st Century (Thomas Nicholas)(Paperback)

The Spy Museum, the Vacuum Cleaner Museum, the National Mustard Museum--not to mention the Art Institute, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Getty Center: museums have never been more robust, curating just about everything there is and assuming a new prominence in public life. The Return of

Magnetic West: The Enduring Allure of the American West (Kensett Andrew)(Pevná vazba)

Unpicking the ever-changing myth of the West in photography, from the 19th century to nowPublished for an exhibition at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, Magnetic West features over 160 photographs by some of the most renowned photographers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Picturing the West

Rothko: The Color Field Paintings (Book for Art Lovers, Books of Paintings, Museum Books) (Bishop Janet)(Pevná vazba)

A sumptuous collection of fifty large-scale artworks from the American master Mark Rothko's color field period, with illuminating essays by Rothko's son and a San Francisco Museum of Modern Art curator of painting and sculpture. 'Sumptuously illustrated with reproductions of 50 paintings, this

Anna at the Art Museum (Hutchins Hazel)(Pevná vazba)

Art is for everyone-even a bored little

A Picasso Portfolio: Prints from The Museum of Modern Art - Deborah Wye

Printmaking was fundamental to Pablo Picasso’s artistic vision. Over his long career, he made well over 2,000 printed images, focusing on the intaglio techniques of etching, engraving, drypoint and aquatint, as well as on lithography and linoleum cut. This book, published to accompany an

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,

Railway Journeys in Art Volume 7: The Glorious South-West (Furness Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art (Cozzolino Robert)(Pevná vazba)

America is haunted. Ghosts from its violent history--the genocide of Indigenous peoples, slavery, the threat of nuclear annihilation, and traumatic wars--are an inescapable and unsettled part of the nation's heritage. Not merely in the realm of metaphor but present and tangible, urgently calling

Freud: The Origin of Psychoanalysis: IX. Vienna, Berggasse 19 (Freud Sigmund)(Pevná vazba)

Responses to psychoanalysis through selections from the Sigmund Freud Museum's contemporary art collectionIn the Alsergrund district of Vienna at the turn of the 20th century, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) developed a new conception of the human mind that would forever change the way people looked at

American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds (Shaw Robert)(Pevná vazba)