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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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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Africa and Byzantium
ISBN: HB: 9781588397713,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
October 2023
352 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 200 colour illus.
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.
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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Manet/Degas
ISBN: HB: 9781588397638,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
September 2023
320 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 250 colour illus.
320 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 250 colour illus.
The first publication on the personal and professional relationship between Manet and Degas, two giants of nineteenth-century French art.
Friends, rivals, and at times antagonists, Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas maintained a pictorial dialogue throu...
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Picasso
A Cubist Commission in Brooklyn
ISBN: HB: 9781588397683,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
August 2023
112 pp., 22,9x17,8 cm, 100 colour illus.
112 pp., 22,9x17,8 cm, 100 colour illus.
New scholarship on a little-known decorative commission undertaken by Pablo Picasso offers insight into the artist's painting process and the evolution of Cubism.
In 1910, Pablo Picasso began a series of 11 decorative paintings intended for the Bro...
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Tree and Serpent
Early Buddhist Art in India
ISBN: HB: 9781588396938,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
June 2023
368 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 300 colour illus.
368 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 300 colour illus.
With new photography of extraordinarily rare works of art, this pioneering study features discoveries and research essential to understanding the origins and meaning of Buddhist artistic traditions.
Buddhist art originated more than 2,000 years ago,...
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Oceania
The Shape of Time
ISBN: HB: 9781588397669,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
May 2023
212 pp., 26,7x24,1 cm, 200 colour illus.
212 pp., 26,7x24,1 cm, 200 colour illus.
Offering a fresh look at Oceanic art that incorporates new scholarship and perspectives from Indigenous voices, this book is an essential resource on the diverse nations and communities of the Pacific Islands.
Made up of the multiple island communit...
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Van Gogh's Cypresses
ISBN: HB: 9781588397591,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
April 2023
272 pp., 25,4x22,9 cm, 150 colour illus.
272 pp., 25,4x22,9 cm, 150 colour illus.
The first book to study Vincent van Gogh's fascination with cypresses, the "tall and dark trees" that feature in some of his most iconic pictures.
This groundbreaking study of paintings and drawings of cypress trees by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) i...
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