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

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

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,

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

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

A Christmas Carol: The Original Manuscript Edition (Dickens Charles)(Pevná vazba)

Every year at the holidays, the historic Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan displays one of the crown jewels of its extraordinary collection: the original manuscript of Charles Dickens sA Christmas Carol, with its detailed emendations, deletions, and insertions in Dickens s own hand. Here, for

Sketchbooks: Collected Measured Drawings and Architectural Sketches (Smith George Saumarez)(Pevná vazba)

- Presents stories behind the sketches including exclusive artwork and previously unseen imagesGeorge Saumarez Smith, a director of ADAM Architecture, is celebrated for the elegance of his work as one of Britain's foremost classical architects. As a student at Edinburgh University, he belonged to

Street Art in the Time of Corona (Tapies Xavier)(Pevná vazba)

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 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

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

Art is for everyone-even a bored little

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

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

Magnolias in Art & Cultivation (Gardiner Jim)(Pevná vazba)

In 1999, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston reportedly paid $1.25 million for a single painting, Magnolias on Gold Velvet Cloth. A striking close-up of magnolia buds, this painting is just one high-profile example of the evocative power magnolias have on art and culture. Gardeners have revered the

Railway Journeys in Art: Vol. 1 Scotland (Furness Richard)(Pevná vazba)

In a unique arrangement with the National Railway Museum, the Poster to Poster series is an eight-volume definitive collection of British railway posters which showcases some of the greatest collections of railway posters to be found anywhere in the world. Each volume is a mixture of travel

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 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

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

Dinosaurium: Welcome to the Museum (Murray Lily)(Pevná vazba)

The newest title in the Welcome to the Museum series focuses its attention on the impressive beasts that once ruled the world: dinosaurs. With artwork from Chris Wormell, this stunningly curated guide to dinosaurs gives readers the experience of a fascinating exhibition from the pages of a

Met Lost in the Museum - A Seek-and-find Adventure in The Met (Mabbitt Will)(Pevná vazba)

Moma Now: Highlights from the Museum of Modern Art, New York (Lowry Glenn)(Pevná vazba)

Published as a large-format hardcover to celebrate the museum's 90th anniversary and the October 2019 opening of the new MoMA after its historic expansionIn October 2019, the Museum of Modern Art celebrates its 90th anniversary with the reopening of its extensively renovated and expanded midtown

In a Time of Distance - And Other Poems (McCall Smith Alexander)(Pevná vazba)

Darker Shades: The Racial Other in Early Modern Art (Stoichita Victor I.)(Pevná vazba)

Resilient Stitch: Wellbeing and Connection in Textile Art (Wellesley-Smith Claire)(Pevná vazba)

Following on from her textile hit Slow Stitch, author Claire Wellesley-Smith considers the importance of connection and ideas around wellbeing when using textiles for individuals and communities. Resilient Stitch covers practical ideas around 'thinking-through-making,' using resonant materials, and

Year of the Monkey - The New York Times bestseller (Smith Patti)(Pevná vazba)