Petrit Halilaj
ISBN: PB: 9781588397768, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2024
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
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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.
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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Sleeping Beauties
ISBN: HB: 9781588397775, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2024
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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Hidden Faces Covered Portraits of the Renaissance
ISBN: HB: 9781588397751, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2024
208 pp., 24,1x21,6 cm, 185 colour illus.
Highlighting the creativity and symbolism of covered portraits, this volume explores an intriguing but largely unknown aspect of Italian and Northern European Renaissance art. Many small Renaissance portraits were richly adorned with covers or backs...
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Suspended Moment The Architecture of Frida Escobedo
ISBN: PB: 9781588397867, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2024
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
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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.
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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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.
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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Women Dressing Women A Lineage of Female Fashion Design
ISBN: HB: 9781588397201, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2023
192 pp., 29,8x23,1 cm, 200 colour illus.
Exploring the enduring impact of fashions created by and for women, this book traces a historical and conceptual lineage across more than 70 female designers – from unidentified dressmakers in eighteenth-century France, to contemporary makers who are...
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£35.00
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Africa and Byzantium
ISBN: HB: 9781588397713, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2023
352 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 200 colour illus.
The first exploration of the artistic and cultural intersections of the African continent and the Byzantine world. Medieval art history has long emphasized the glories of the Byzantine Empire, but less known are the profound artistic contributions...
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Vertigo of Color Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism
ISBN: HB: 9781588397652, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2023
240 pp., 26,7x24,1 cm, 200 colour illus.
In the summer of 1905, the French painters Henri Matisse and Andre Derain changed the course of art history with their radical color experiments. During the summer of 1905, Henri Matisse and Andre Derain went on holiday in Collioure, a modest Frenc...
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