the metropolitan museum of art and yale university press new york and new haven (271 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : As New. 52 pages; 8 1/2 x 11 ".

Paperback. Etat : Fine. 1st. 96 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 23 cm. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January 14 to March 30, 2014. Firm binding, clean inside copy. *** "This book tells the story of Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca (1411/13-1492) by focusing on four paintings he created over the span of his career. It also provides the first study of his small-scale devotional paintings, including the exquisite 'Saint Jerome and a Donor'. One of today's most prominent scholars narrates the painting's mysterious history and uncovers new insights gleaned during its recent study and restoration. The author explores the relationship between this painting and other works made by Piero for private devotion, including one of his last and most striking paintings, the magnificent 'Madonna di Senigallia'. New research describes the complex relationships between Piero and his patrons and other contemporaries. This book brims with revelatory details about Piero's work that will intrigue both casual readers and devoted fans of the artist, and will form a gateway to a larger analysis of Piero's overall body of work." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. Collectible.

Paperback. Etat : Fine. 86 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour); 28 cm. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art June 3 to August 17, 2003. Firm binding, clean inside copy. *** "This fascinating book focuses on The Metropolitan Museum of Art's recent acquisition, The 'Kearsarge' at Boulogne, by Edouard Manet (1832-1883). During the American Civil War, when Union forces blocked Confederate ports, the Confederacy countered by waging guerrilla warfare on Union merchant shipping. One of the most skilled Confederate raiders was the sloop-of-war Alabama. On June 19, 1864, the U.S.S. Kearsarge and the C.S.S. Alabama fought off the coast of Cherbourg, France. The Alabama sank less than two hours after the first shot was fired. The battle captured the attention of the French people, and Manet, who as a teenager had served in the French navy, raced to Boulogne to see the victorious Kearsarge. He painted a depiction of the battle (which he did not witness), now in Philadelphia, as well as a portrait of the Kearsarge, now in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This volume contains essays about the Metropolitan's picture and five additional seascapes painted by Manet in Boulogne during the summer of 1864. Related works by other artists, photographs, and newspaper articles are also included. / David Degener is a naval historian, and Juliet Wilson-Bareau is an independent Manet scholar." - Publisher. Size: 4to. Collectible.

Soft cover. Etat : New. 1st Edition. Stiff color illus. wraps, French flaps. New/as issued. 1st ptg. 86 pp., illus. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Paperback. Etat : Fine. 75pp. 8 1/2 x 11" Priority and international shipping will be extra, please inquire.

Softcover. Etat : Very Good Plus. [AFRICA]. Alisa LaGamma, Philippe de Montebello. "Echoing Images: Couples in African Sculpture." New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and New Haven: Yale University Press. Printed in Singapore, 2004. English language. Softcover pictorial wrappers. Art historical essay with full-color reproductions of artwork, introduction, exhibition checklist, and bibliography. 11 x 8 1/2 inches. 10 oz. 52 pp. Short tear and crease at edge of first page. Text clean. Rest of book in fine condition. Very Good Plus. ISBN: 9780300103588. "Idealized pairings have been an enduring concern of sculptors across the African continent. This universal theme of duality is now examined in a handsome book that presents African sculptural masterpieces created in wood, bronze, terracotta, and beadwork from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. Drawn from thirty sub-Saharan African cultures, including those of the Dogon, Lobi, Baule, Senufo, Yoruba, Chamba, Jukun, Songye, and Sakalava, the sculptures tell much about each culture?s beliefs and social ideals. These artistic creations are astonishingly rich and diverse forms of expression. An essay written by LaGamma discusses thirty works, all of which are illustrated in color.".

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. 1st. xvi, 636 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 32 cm. Exhibition held September 19, 2000 through January 7, 2001 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Firm binding, with one slight spine crease. Clean inside copy. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "In 1825 the Erie Canal, connecting the Atlantic with the American heartland via the Great Lakes, was completed, and in 1861 the Civil War, disrupting American unity, began. This volume examines the exhilarating period between these two far-reaching events. The Erie Canal turned the port of New York into the gateway to the United States, ushering in a time of enormous growth and change for the city of New York. Still very much a work in progress, New York became both an international economic and cultural center: it was transformed into what contemporary observers variously termed the Empire City, the Great Emporium, and the Empress City of the West. The cultural component of this transformation was as significant as its economic aspect. Highly skilled artists and craftsmen working in New York, both native born and immigrant, grew in number, and institutions devoted to the arts emerged and flourished. With Broadway at its heart, the Great Emporium developed into the nation's major manufacturing and retailing center, the depot for luxury goods made in and around the city and imported from Europe. The complex story of the proliferation of the arts in New York and the evolution of an increasingly discerning audience for those arts during the antebellum period is the focus of this book, which accompanies a major exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In essays that will interest scholars as well as a more general audience, specialists from the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, and the University of California at Berkeley bring new research and insights to bear on a broad range of subjects. Their texts offer both historical and cultural contexts and explore the city's development as a nexus for the marketing and display of art, as well as private collecting; landscape painting viewed against the background of tourism; new departures in sculpture, architecture, and printmaking; the birth of photography; New York as a fashion center; shopping for home decorations; changing styles in furniture; and the evolution of the ceramics, glass, and silver industries. This volume is lavishly illustrated in color and black and white, providing reproductions of the more than three hundred works in the exhibition as well as comparative material. A checklist of works in the exhibition, a bibliography, and an index are included." - Publisher. Size: Folio.

Softcover. Etat : Very Good. 128 pages.

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 64 pages, numerous color illustrations, map, notes; 4to, green wraps/pictorial front. Fine.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Profusely Illustrated (illustrateur). Published to accompany exhibitions at New York City's Metropolitan Museum Sept 2005-Jan 2006, and Prague Castle Feb-May 2006. Extensive text integrated with over150 illustrations, many in color. Also maps of Bohemia in 1387 and Prague after 1400; family tree of Bohemian royalty; bibliography. Book is tight and clean, appears unread. Glossy wraps have 2 1/2" closed tear along top of spine as seen in images, otherwise an overall near fine copy. 366 pages, 9" x 12" A heavy book that needs extra postage for international or expedited shipping.

Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 246 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Name plate of former owner in front end papers, otherwise clean and tight illustrated copy. Record # 2231134.

Paperback. Etat : Near Fine. 1st. 64 pages, illustrations (some colour), map; 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art November 3, 2000 to April 22, 2001. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. *** "A symbol of power and prestige in ancient Peru, silver also held religious significance, its soft cool sheen symbolizing the moon, a female deity. This beautiful book presents objects of silver - items of personal adornment, tomb offerings, and miniatures - from several Peruvian cultures that thrived along the coastal and highland regions of the Andes from the first millennium B.C. to the Spanish conquest of 1532-34. Excavated from the sites of such cultures as the Moche, the Lambayeque, the Chimu, and the Inka, these extremely rare and lovely objects of silver shed new light on a fascinating civilization." - Publisher. Size: 4to. Collectible.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 1st. Pictorial boards, 235 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 cm. Published in conjunction with "Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980," on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from September 13, 2017 through January 14, 2018. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "Addressing the maniacal, eccentric, and disorienting in artworks made between 1950 and 1980, Delirious situates a fascination with the absurd and irrational within the context of the violence and brutality witnessed during World War II as well as the rapid expansion of industrial capitalism in the 1950s. Skepticism of science and technology--along with fear of its capability to promote mass destruction--developed into a distrust of rationalism, which in the arts had the paradoxical result of extracting irrational effects from rational means." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Think crazy: the art and history of delirium, by Kelly Baum; Bite your tongue: Antonin Artaud and the neo-avant-garde, by Lucy Bradnock; Blown circuits: technology and irrationality in postwar art, by Tine Rivers Ryan; Plates. Excess; Vertigo; Twisted; Nonsense. Size: 4to. Collectible.

Paperback. Etat : Near Fine. x, 563 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 17, 2007 to January 6, 2008; and at the Palacio Real, Madrid, March 6 to June 1, 2008. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "Drawing from collections in more than fifteen countries, Tapestry in the Baroque presents forty-five rare tapestries made between 1590 and 1720. About half of these derive from Flemish workshops, including such highlights of the Brussels tapestry industry as the Triumphs of the Church designed by Rubens for Archduchess Isabella in 1626 and tapestries from the Austrian state collection designed by Jacob Jordaens and others in the 1630s and 1640s. Flemish weavers also played key roles elsewhere in Europe, establishing new enterprises and training native weavers, and the publication also features rare examples from these new workshops." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Introduction: The Golden Age of Netherlandish tapestry weaving, by Thomas P. Campbell; The disruption and diaspora of the Netherlandish tapestry industry, 1570-1600, by Thomas P. Campbell; The development of new centers of production and the recovery of the Netherlandish tapestry industry, 1600-1620, by Thomas P. Campbell; Stately splendor, woven frescoes, luxury furnishings: tapestry in context, 1600-1660, by Thomas P. Campbell; The Parisian workshops, 1590-1650, by Isabelle Denis; The Mortlake Manufactory, 1619-49, by Wendy Hefford; Tapestry in the Spanish Netherlands, 1625-60, by Guy Delmarcel; Tapestry production in Florence: The Medici tapestry works, 1587-1747, by Lucia Meoni; Tapestry production in seventeenth-century Rome: The Barberini Manufactory, by James G. Harper; Collectors and connoisseurs: the status and perception of tapestry, 1600-1660, by Thomas P. Campbell; Tapestry production at the Gobelins during the reign of Louis XIV, 1661-1715, by Pascal-Francois Bertrand; Manufacture Royale de Tapisseries de Beauvais, 1664-1715, by Charissa Brewer-David; Flemish production, 1660-715, by Koenraad Brosens; Continuity and change in tapestry use and design, 1680-1720, by Thomas P. Campbell. Size: Folio.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st. Cloth, xi, 286 pages, illustrations (some colour), map; 31 cm. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January 30 to August 19, 2001. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. *** "Between Two Cultures, by Wen C. Fong, based on a selection of modern Chinese paintings from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, explores the crucial period from the 1860s to about 1980, when Chinese painting was transformed into a modern expression of its classical heritage. Unlike classical Chinese painting dating from before 1860, which has commanded in-depth study from a learned and sophisticated audience in the West, modern Chinese painting has been little explored. The first comprehensive assemblage in the West of paintings on this subject, the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection comprises works in the classical Chinese medium of ink on paper and in the traditional formats of scrolls, album leaves, and fans." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Introduction: East meets West; Painters in Shanghai and Guangdong; The Westernizers; Three great traditionalists; Mainland Chinese painting, 1950s-1980s; Epilogue: Reflections on Chinese art and history. Size: 4to. Collectible.

Illustrated Wrappers. Etat : Fine. Color and B/W Reproductions Throughout (illustrateur). First Paperback Edition. 338 Pp. Softcover. First Printing, Softcover Issue. Massive Survey Of Stuart's Life And Art. No International Orders.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good+. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover, has a slight lean to the binding, small bumps to spine ends and cover corners, some faint smudging to edges of the text block, and a touch of bowing to the boards, otherwise a solid, tight VG copy in a VG+ dust jacket, which has slight bumps to spine ends and corners, some rubbing, and a hint of edgewear. Jacket is wrapped in a removable Mylar cover.

75pp. 106 illus. 4to. Wraps.

75pp. 106 illus. 4to. Wraps.

Hardbound. Black cloth with color illustrated, glossy dustjacket. xiii, 626 pp., 225 vivid color plates, 301 crisp bw plates and illustrations. This massive compendium includes 91 paintings (14 of them by Vermeer), forty drawings and a choice selection of decorative arts from the period. A blockbuster exhibition that will take a long time to replicate. This catalogue does a remarkable job of showing Vermeer in the context of his times and his contemporaries, especially with the inclusioon of so many objects of decorative arts. From DJ: "Seventeenth-century Delft has often been viewed as a quaint town whose artists painted scenes of domestic life. This important book revises that image, showing that the small but vibrant Dutch city produced a wide range of artworks, including luxurious tapestries and silver objects, as well as sophisticated paintings for the court at The Hague and for patrician collectors in Delft itself. The volume traces the history and culture of Delft from the 1200s through the lifetime of the city's most renowned painter, Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675). Some ninety paintings (sixteen of them by Vermeer), forty drawings, and a choice selection of decorative arts are examined at length and reproduced in full color. The paintings include state portraits, history pictures, still lifes, views of palaces and church interiors, illusionistic murals, and refined genre pictures by Vermeer and Pieter de Hooch. Besides magnificent still lifes, portraits, and landscapes, the rich works on paper encompass exquisite drawings by Delft artists on the vellum pages of a presentation album and sketches of the town by visiting artists. Among the decorative arts are tapestries, bronze statuary, silver gilt, Delftware, and glass. Some two hundred additional works, by both Delft artists and masters from other Dutch cities, are also illustrated and discussed. A final essay takes the reader on a walk through seventeenth-century Delft. It is accompanied by maps of the city's neighborhoods that indicate major landmarks and the homes of patrons, art dealers, and artists--who, in addition to De Hooch and Vermeer, include Balthasar van der Ast, Leonaert Bramer, Carel Fabritius, Gerard Houckgeest, Michiel van Miereveld, Adam Pynacker, Jan Steen, Willem and Hendrick van Vliet, and Emanuel de Witte." VG/VG- (Former owner's name is written on first flyleaf; page edges are tanning lightly; text and illus. are clear.).

Paperback. Color illustrated wraps. 560 pp., 181 bw and 259 vivid color plates. A sumptuous catalogue of 219 works from the more than 4000 that Winthrop bequesthed to his alma matter in 1943. Includes catalogue entries and essays written by more than 60 experts in their respective fields. VG small label inside front cover.

Hardcover. Etat : VG. Red cloth with color-illustrated glossy dustjacket. 592 pp., profusely illustrated with 349 bw and 380 color plates. Catalogue features a whopping 226 artworks, all of them extensively annotated. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Musee d'Orsay, Paris, Sept. 16, 2002-Jan. 12, 2003 and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Mar. 4-June 8, 2003 "This illustrated book accompanies a groundbreaking exhibition - the first of such scale and depth to be organized around this subject - that traces the roots of Modernism in mid-nineteenth-century French Realism. In 1804, at the dawn of the French Empire, there were no more than a handful of Spanish paintings in public collections in France. During the course of the nineteenth century, however, French collectors and museums assembled substantial holdings of works by such Spanish masters as El Greco, Zurbaran, Velazquez, Murillo, and Goya, while French writers and artists - among them Hugo and Baudelaire, Gericault, Delacroix, Millet, Courbet, Degas, and especially Manet - came to understand, appreciate, and even emulate Spanish painting of the Golden Age. Here approximately two hundred works by French and Spanish artists chart the development of this cultural influence and map a fascinating shift in the paradigm of painting, from Idealism to Realism, from Italy to Spain, from Renaissance to Baroque. Above all, these images demonstrate how direct contact with Spanish painting fired the imagination of nineteenth-century French artists and brought about the triumph of Realism in the 1860s, and with it a foundation for modern art.".

Softbound. Etat : VG. Color illustrated glossy wraps. 592 pp., profusely illustrated with 349 bw and 380 color plates. Catalogue features a whopping 226 artworks, all of them extensively annotated. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Musee d'Orsay, Paris, Sept. 16, 2002-Jan. 12, 2003 and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Mar. 4-June 8, 2003. Contents as follows: Raphael replaced: the triumph of Spanish painting in France / Gary Tinterow -- The discovery of the Spanish school in France / Geneviève Lacambre -- Seville's artistic heritage during the French occupation / Ignacio Cano Rivero -- The origins of the Museo del Prado / María de los Santos García Felguera Javier Portús Pérez -- Goya and France / Juliet Wilson-Bareau -- Goya and the French romantics / Ilse Hempel Lipschutz -- The Galerie Espagnole of Louis-Philippe / Jeannine Baticle -- From Ziegler to Courbet: painting, art criticism, and the Spanish Trope under Louis-Philippe / Stéphane Guégan -- Manet and Spain / Juliet Wilson-Bareau -- American artists' taste for Spanish printing / H. Barbara Weinberg -- A legacy of Spanish art for America: Archer M. Huntington and the Hispanic Society of America / Mitchell A. Codding -- Nineteenth-century French copies after Spanish Old Masters / Dominique Lobstein -- The Dresden remains of the Galerie Espagnole: a fresh look (at the) back / Matthias Weniger. "This illustrated book accompanies a groundbreaking exhibition - the first of such scale and depth to be organized around this subject - that traces the roots of Modernism in mid-nineteenth-century French Realism. In 1804, at the dawn of the French Empire, there were no more than a handful of Spanish paintings in public collections in France. During the course of the nineteenth century, however, French collectors and museums assembled substantial holdings of works by such Spanish masters as El Greco, Zurbaran, Velazquez, Murillo, and Goya, while French writers and artists - among them Hugo and Baudelaire, Gericault, Delacroix, Millet, Courbet, Degas, and especially Manet - came to understand, appreciate, and even emulate Spanish painting of the Golden Age. Here approximately two hundred works by French and Spanish artists chart the development of this cultural influence and map a fascinating shift in the paradigm of painting, from Idealism to Realism, from Italy to Spain, from Renaissance to Baroque. Above all, these images demonstrate how direct contact with Spanish painting fired the imagination of nineteenth-century French artists and brought about the triumph of Realism in the 1860s, and with it a foundation for modern art.".

Softcover. Yellow-orange, color illustrated glossy wraps. xiv; 450 pp. 260 color and 269 bw plates and illustrations. A pioneering Parisian dealer, Vollard introduced many of the era's leading artists to the public. This beautifully illustrated catalogue, accompanying the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to Vollard's extraordinary achievement, presents 130 important paintings, sculptures, and works on paper that he promoted, exhibited, and sold. Vollard's groundbreaking exhibition in 1895 of Cezanne's work definitively established the artist' s reputation, and Vollard subsequently organized major exhibitions of the Nabis, Gauguin, and Van Gogh; promoted the work of artists ranging from Degas to Rouault to the Fauves; and gave many young artists, including Picasso and Matisse, their first solo shows. In addition, Vollard published print albums and livres d'artiste that are among the most celebrated of the early 20th century. This important volume features twenty-two essays that examine Vollard's career and expertise in the art market, his relationships with individual artists and collectors, and a wealth of previously unpublished material from the newly available archive of Vollard's documents and from the archives of the artists he represented. VG. May have owner's name inside front cover.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st. Cloth, xviii, 222 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 32 cm. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 12, 2009 to January 24, 2010, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 28 to May 23, 2010. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by one of the contributors, Bruce Robertson. A fine copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "This beautiful volume explores American paintings of people engaged in the tasks and pleasures of everyday life between the colonial era and World War I. These works reflect key historical and cultural developments, including the growth of industrialization, urbanization, and immigration; changing gender roles; and the shifting location and meaning of the frontier. Focusing on leading artists, from John Singleton Copley to John Sloan, the authors address narrative content in colonial and early national portraits; genre scenes of the Jacksonian period; images from the Civil War era; and works by American Impressionists and realists in the decades before and after 1900. Like the exhibition it accompanies, the book reflects transformations in artists aspirations and viewers expectations as America evolved from isolated British outpost to leading independent participant in international affairs." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Inventing American stories, 1765-1830, by Carrie Rebora Barratt; Stories for the public, 1830-1860, by Bruce Robertson; Stories of war and reconciliation, 1860-1877, by Margaret C. Conrads; Cosmopolitan and candid stories, 1877-1915, by H. Barbara Weinberg. Size: Folio. SIGNED. Collectible.

Hardcover. Etat : NEW. Etat de la jaquette : NEW. 1st. Cloth, 116 pages, colour illustrations; 26 cm. Published in conjunction with "History Refused to Die: Highlights from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation Gift," on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from May 22 through September 23, 2018. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "My Soul Has Grown Deep considers the art-historical significance of self-taught Black artists, many working under conditions of poverty and isolation, in the American South. It features paintings and drawings, mixed-media and sculptural works, and quilts, including pieces ranging from the pioneering paintings of Thornton Dial (1928-2016) to the renowned quilts made in Gee's Bend, Alabama. Nearly 60 remarkable works of art--originally collected by the Souls Grown Deep Foundation--are illustrated alongside insightful texts that situate them in the context of rural Southern life, simultaneously revealing their connections to mainstream contemporary art while considering them on their own terms. Art historians Cheryl Finley, Randall R. Griffey, and Amelia Peck illuminate the artists' novel use of found or salvaged materials and the striking graphic aesthetic of the quilts, while a thoughtful essay by novelist Darryl Pinckney provides the historical and political context of the American South, during and after the Civil Rights era, in which this art is grounded. Each of the works, described and outstandingly illustrated, tells a remarkable story of artists who faced enormous difficulties, and whose creativity and determination produced extraordinary and unique forms of artistic expression." - Publisher. Size: 4to. Collectible.

Paperback. Etat : Fine. 1st. x, 246 pages, illustrations (some colour), colour map; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. *** "The legendary, pioneering French artist who famously left his family and a career in finance to paint and live like a native in the South Seas, Paul Gauguin in fact began sailing to far-off lands during childhood. As a boy he lived for a time with relatives in Peru, and in his teens, in the merchant marine and the military, he visited South America, India, the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, and the North Sea. He believed firmly in his difference, often referring to himself as a 'savage,' and once he discovered his passion for art he had to create forms that were original and unique. 'What does it matter that I set myself apart from other people? For most I shall be an enigina, but for a few I shall be a poet. . . ," he wrote.' This volume accompanies a major exhibition of Gauguin's work in New York collections held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Surprisingly, the first major show devoted to Gauguin in New York since the Metropolitan Museum presented a retrospective of his work in 1959, it anticipates the centennial of the artist's death in 1903 and signals the nineteenth anniversary of his debut in New York collections. Four authors from the Metropolitan Museum illuminate aspects of the subject in their texts. All works in the exhibition, as well as rich comparative material, are reproduced, Notes, a bibliography, a checklist of works in the exhibition, and an index are supplied." - Publisher. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Pictorial boards, xi, 148 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 27 cm. Published in conjunction with an exhibition on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from October 19, 2016 through February 20, 2017. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Profusely illustrated. *** "An up close and personal look at the life and work of a major 20th-century artist. The prominent German Expressionist painter Max Beckmann (1884-1950) is known for allegorical, autobiographical works that capture the doom and grotesquerie of World War I and the subsequent rise of Nazism. In 1937, under threat by the Nazi regime (which featured Beckmanns work prominently in the notorious 'Degenerate Art' exhibition that year), he and his wife relocated, first to Amsterdam, then to St. Louis, and eventually to New York City, where Beckmann died less than one year later. This revealing book focuses on the works produced during Beckmanns final years and other pieces by the artist now found in New York collections. Throughout his prolific career, Beckmann maintained a firm loyalty to representational painting, asserting his purpose to 'get hold of the magic of reality and to transfer this reality into painting.' The deft and subtle layers of color and shadow, figures and allusions in his work resulted in captivating narrative images. Presenting a mesmerizing portrait of one of the 20th century's most enigmatic and challenging artists, Max Beckmann in New York features beautiful reproductions of Beckmann's remarkable artworks, accompanied by an engaging essay by acclaimed art historian Sabine Rewald that contextualizes his paintings and provides insight into his tumultuous life." - Publisher. Size: 4to. Collectible.

Paperback. Etat : Fine. 1st. xvi, 636 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 32 cm. Exhibition held September 19, 2000 through January 7, 2001 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "In 1825 the Erie Canal, connecting the Atlantic with the American heartland via the Great Lakes, was completed, and in 1861 the Civil War, disrupting American unity, began. This volume examines the exhilarating period between these two far-reaching events. The Erie Canal turned the port of New York into the gateway to the United States, ushering in a time of enormous growth and change for the city of New York. Still very much a work in progress, New York became both an international economic and cultural center: it was transformed into what contemporary observers variously termed the Empire City, the Great Emporium, and the Empress City of the West. The cultural component of this transformation was as significant as its economic aspect. Highly skilled artists and craftsmen working in New York, both native born and immigrant, grew in number, and institutions devoted to the arts emerged and flourished. With Broadway at its heart, the Great Emporium developed into the nation's major manufacturing and retailing center, the depot for luxury goods made in and around the city and imported from Europe. The complex story of the proliferation of the arts in New York and the evolution of an increasingly discerning audience for those arts during the antebellum period is the focus of this book, which accompanies a major exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In essays that will interest scholars as well as a more general audience, specialists from the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, and the University of California at Berkeley bring new research and insights to bear on a broad range of subjects. Their texts offer both historical and cultural contexts and explore the city's development as a nexus for the marketing and display of art, as well as private collecting; landscape painting viewed against the background of tourism; new departures in sculpture, architecture, and printmaking; the birth of photography; New York as a fashion center; shopping for home decorations; changing styles in furniture; and the evolution of the ceramics, glass, and silver industries. This volume is lavishly illustrated in color and black and white, providing reproductions of the more than three hundred works in the exhibition as well as comparative material. A checklist of works in the exhibition, a bibliography, and an index are included." - Publisher. Size: Folio. Collectible.

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. No Jacket. Accompanied exhibits at Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan and New York's Met Museum of Art during Oct 2014 - May 2005. Translated from the original Italian. Includes technical essays illustrated in black & white; documents from Florentine, Urbino, and Barberini archives; biographies of renaissance artists. Profusely illustrated with color plates. Illustrated wraps have barely visible scuffing. Interior pages are tight and clean, no evidence of handling. 384 pages, 11" x 9 1/2". Large, heavy book requires addtl postage for international orders.