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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Recasting the Past
The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100-1900
ISBN: HB: 9781588397904,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
March 2025
320 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 300 colour illus.
320 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 300 colour illus.
A reappraisal of the often-overlooked Chinese bronzes made from the twelfth through nineteenth centuries, demonstrating their profound impact on Chinese art and culture.
Bronze vessels were the ultimate emblems of power in ancient China. Beginning...
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50.00 GBP
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Three Perfections
Japanese Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting
ISBN: HB: 9781588397805,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
March 2025
336 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 215 colour illus.
336 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 215 colour illus.
A groundbreaking survey examining the interrelationship of poetry, calligraphy, and painting in Japanese art from the eleventh to the early twentieth century.
In East Asian cultures, the integration of poetry, painting, and calligraphy, known as th...
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50.00 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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