Suspended Moment
The Architecture of Frida Escobedo
ISBN: PB: 9781588397867,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
March 2025
112 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 130 colour and black&white illus.
112 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 130 colour and black&white illus.
An illuminating profile of one of today's most innovative and forward-looking architects, whose materials-based practice explores how space can provoke emotional response.
Frida Escobedo's (b. 1979) designs for public spaces have received global ac...
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25.00 GBP
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Flight into Egypt
Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876 - Now
ISBN: HB: 9781588397850,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
October 2024
272 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
272 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
The first publication to examine the symbolic importance of ancient Egypt to Black artists and other cultural figures, from the nineteenth century through the Harlem Renaissance to the present.
Beginning in the late nineteenth century, Black Americ...
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40.00 GBP
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Mandalas
Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet
ISBN: HB: 9781588397829,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
September 2024
256 pp., 27,3x24,1 cm, 175 colour illus.
256 pp., 27,3x24,1 cm, 175 colour illus.
Exploring the significance of Tibetan mandalas from their ancient origins to the present day, this gorgeously illustrated volume provides a contemporary perspective on a centuries-old Buddhist model of the universe.
A mandala is a diagram of the un...
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25.00 GBP
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Materialized Space
The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
ISBN: HB: 9781588397836,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
September 2024
128 pp., 26,7x20,3 cm, 70 colour illus.
128 pp., 26,7x20,3 cm, 70 colour illus.
A reassessment of the career of architect Paul Rudolph, from his modernist Sarasota houses to his controversial Brutalist buildings and later international projects, featuring unpublished drawings, models, and furniture.
Architect Paul Rudolph (191...
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25.00 GBP
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Petrit Halilaj
ISBN: PB: 9781588397768,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
August 2024
64 pp., 18,4x10,8 cm, 40 colour illus.
64 pp., 18,4x10,8 cm, 40 colour illus.
This exploration of Petrit Halilaj's site-specific installation reflects the artist's personal experience as a refugee of war and the universal hopes and fears captured in children's drawings.
Petrit Halilaj (b. 1986, Kosovo) is known for installat...
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7.95 GBP
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Sleeping Beauties
Reawakening Fashion
ISBN: HB: 9781588397775,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
July 2024
288 pp., 33,7x24,8 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.
288 pp., 33,7x24,8 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.
A feast for the senses, this book brings fashion to life through touch, smell, sight, and sound
What happens when a garment is preserved in a museum's archive and can no longer be worn? What do we lose when we protect fashion for study by future ge...
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60.00 GBP
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How to Read Portraits
ISBN: PB: 9781588397645,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
May 2024
176 pp., 26,7x20,3 cm, 150 colour illus.
176 pp., 26,7x20,3 cm, 150 colour illus.
This latest volume in The Met's acclaimed How to Read series explores the meaning of portraiture across time and cultures – from funerary masks to realism to abstraction.
Portraiture goes far beyond capturing a likeness. Portraits speak to such fun...
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19.95 GBP
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Art of the Literary Poster
ISBN: HB: 9781588397744,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
March 2024
256 pp., 25,4x22,9 cm, 200 colour illus.
256 pp., 25,4x22,9 cm, 200 colour illus.
An exploration of late nineteenth-century American literary posters – a vibrant genre at the vanguard of modern commercial art and graphic design.
Spurred by innovations in printing technology, the modern poster emerged in the 1890s as a popular fo...
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40.00 GBP
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Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
ISBN: HB: 9781588397737,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
February 2024
336 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 264 colour illus.
336 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 264 colour illus.
A groundbreaking volume resituating the Harlem Renaissance as integral to the development of twentieth-century modernism.
Beginning in the 1920s, Upper Manhattan became the center of an explosion of art, writing, and ideas that has since become leg...
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50.00 GBP
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