Seeing Silence
The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck
ISBN: HB: 9781588398079,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
November 2025
192 pp., 26,6x21,5 cm, 110 colour illus.
192 pp., 26,6x21,5 cm, 110 colour illus.
A groundbreaking introduction to Scandinavian artist Helene Schjerfbeck through the paintings and drawings that mark her as an exceptional modernist.
In this richly illustrated study, leading scholars reevaluate the role of Finnish painter Helene S...
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35.00 GBP
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Divine Egypt
ISBN: HB: 9781588398048,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
October 2025
320 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 350 colour illus.
320 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 350 colour illus.
A rare and captivating look at ancient Egyptian deities that demystifies their complex iconography to illuminate three millennia of life and religious practice.
Ancient Egyptian religious practice flourished across millennia and encompassed a stagg...
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50.00 GBP
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Spectrum of Desire
Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages
ISBN: PB: 9781588398055,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
October 2025
144 pp., 26,6x22,8 cm, 93 colour illus.
144 pp., 26,6x22,8 cm, 93 colour illus.
Reframing medieval art through the lens of queer theory, this pioneering volume sharpens our understanding of conceptions of gender, the body, and eroticism across three centuries.
This pioneering volume explores concepts of gender, sexuality, and...
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20.00 GBP
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Man Ray
When Objects Dream
ISBN: HB: 9781588398024,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
September 2025
336 pp., 25,4x22,8 cm, 300 colour illus.
336 pp., 25,4x22,8 cm, 300 colour illus.
The first in-depth study of Man Ray's groundbreaking rayographs of the 1920s and their interconnections with his Dada and Surrealist works.
Man Ray (1890-1976) worked in a range of media, but central to his practice was the rayograph, a type of pho...
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50.00 GBP
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Superfine
Tailoring Black Style
ISBN: HB: 9781588397997,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
June 2025
350 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 300 colour illus.
350 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 300 colour illus.
This exploration of Black dandy fashion and its representation in art and literature highlights the vibrant, complicated legacy of a recognizable yet constantly shifting style, from its origins in Enlightenment Europe to the contemporary art and fash...
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60.00 GBP
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How to Read African Textiles
ISBN: PB: 9781588397911,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
May 2025
168 pp., 26,6x20,3 cm, 125 colour illus.
168 pp., 26,6x20,3 cm, 125 colour illus.
Across the African continent, handwoven cloth and clothing have historically been labor-intensive creations deeply embedded in local and regional value systems. These fabrics could be endlessly adapted to communal and individual needs, variously serv...
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19.95 GBP
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Lorna Simpson
Source Notes
ISBN: HB: 9781588398000,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
May 2025
200 pp., 26,7x22,9 cm, 80 colour illus.
200 pp., 26,7x22,9 cm, 80 colour illus.
A revelatory first look at the painting practice of artist Lorna Simpson, whose work combines abstraction and figuration to highlight issues of identity and representation.
Though Lorna Simpson (b. 1960) is perhaps best known as a photographer, thi...
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35.00 GBP
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Chroma
Sculpture in Color from Antiquity to Today
ISBN: PB: 9781588397966,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
May 2025
240 pp., 26,7x21,6 cm, 250 colour illus.
240 pp., 26,7x21,6 cm, 250 colour illus.
New discoveries of surviving color on sculpture spanning two millennia and across the globe, from ancient Greece to Tenochtitlan to Renaissance Europe.
Many ancient and early modern works that are viewed in monochrome today were once painted in vib...
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40.00 GBP
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Sargent and Paris
ISBN: HB: 9781588397959,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
April 2025
232 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 200 colour illus.
232 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 200 colour illus.
A fascinating look at John Singer Sargent's formative years as a young painter in Paris, a city that helped forge his artistic identity and sparked his rise to the pinnacle of the nineteenth-century art world.
In 1874, eighteen-year-old American ar...
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40.00 GBP
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Monstrous Beauty
A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie
ISBN: PB: 9781588397928,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
March 2025
256 pp., 26,7x20,3 cm, 200 colour illus.
256 pp., 26,7x20,3 cm, 200 colour illus.
Curiosity and critique foreground this novel history of porcelain that unravels the cultural myths of Chinoiserie, Europe's fantasy of the East.
"Monstrous Beauty" presents a bold cross-cultural history of porcelain told through a feminist lens. Th...
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25.00 GBP
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