Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Combines van Gogh's paintings with his own words, describing each work of art and introducing young readers to the concept of color.

Vincent's Colors

Andrew Bolton

Harold Koda

An alluring look at the relationship of clothing and interior design in 18th-century France

Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century

Dangerous Liaisons

Common feline characteristics are presented in alphabetical order through a variety of artwork containing cats from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Cat Alphabet

Colta Feller Ives

Susan Alyson Stein

"This volume accompanies a major exhibition of Gauguin's work in New York collections held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Surprisingly, the first major show devoted to Gauguin in New York since the Metropolitan Museum presented a retrospective of his work in 1959, it anticipates the centennial of the artist's death in 1903 and signals the nineteenth anniversary of his debut in New York collections. Four authors from the Metropolitan Museum illuminate aspects of the subject in their texts." "All works in the exhibition, as well as rich comparative material, are reproduced, Notes, a bibliography, a checklist of works in the exhibition, and an index are supplied."--BOOK JACKET.

Gauguin in New York Collections

The Lure of the Exotic

Christopher Phillips

The decade between the world wars witnessed an astonishing flowering of photography in Europe-- marked particularly by the unprecedented work of such figures as Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, and Alexander Rodchenko. Alongside the visual experiments ran a fascinating public discussion in which critics, artists, and the photographers themselves struggled to define the nature and possibilities of photography in the modern era. The seventy-one essays and documents collected in this book provide a concise, provocative introduction to the ideas and personalities that animated avant-garde photography during these years of artistic ferment and that continue to influence the medium today. By turns poetic, analytical, and fiercely ideological, these diverse writings give expression to a very wide range of original ideas. Moholy-Nagy calls on photographers to create a powerful abstract vision that will transform our ability to see. Albert Renger-Patzsch argues for a quite different goal, a photography of revelatory realism that lays bare the essence of the subject before the lens. The French writer Pierre Mac Orlan explores psychologically compelling notions: that photography realizes "all that is curiously inhuman" and "creates death for a second." Photography is widely characterized as a modern machine-age art that supersedes the traditional fine arts. In the Soviet Union an extraordinary interchange pits the avant-gardist Rodchenko against opponents who insist that social usefulness is photography's primary responsibility. While shedding important new light on the directions taken by photography during the twentieth century, these essays also illuminate such major movements as Futurism, Constructivism, Surrealism, and the New Objectivity. Most of the selections were not previously available in English and have been translated especially for this volume. Each appears with an informative headnote by Christopher Phillips, who in an introductory essay provides a lucid overview of the period and the context in which the writings first appeared. With its wealth of new material, this collection is an essential resource for all those studying photography or seeking to understand the visual culture of this century. This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition The New Vision: Photography Between the World Wars, Ford Motor Company Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 23-December 31, 1989.

European Documents and Critical Writings, 1913-1940

Photography in the Modern Era

Musée d'Orsay

Gloria Lynn Groom

Explores fashion as a critical aspect of modernity, one that paralleled and many times converged with the development of Impressionism, when fashion attracted the foremost writers and artists of the day.

Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity

This companion book to "Museum ABC" is a simple and elegant counting book which introduces numbers from one to ten to youngsters through magnificent masterpieces of art housed in the Metropolitan Museum's collection. Full color.

Museum 123

Sabine Rewald

Max Ernst

Werner Spies

A comprehensive look at the life and work of a pioneering 20th-century artist

A Retrospective

The Renaissance in Italy and Spain

Joan Aruz

Ronald Wallenfels

This volume, which accompanies a major exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, explores the artistic achievements of the era of the first cities in both the Mesopotamian heartland and across the expanse of western Asia.

The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus

Art of the First Cities

Maxwell K. Hearn

"Together the text and illustrations gradually reveal many of the major themes and characteristics of Chinese painting. To "read" these works is to enter a dialogue with the past. Slowly perusing a scroll or album, one shares an intimate experience that has been repeated over the centuries. And it is through such readings that meaning is gradually revealed."--BOOK JACKET.

How to Read Chinese Paintings

Peter J. Chelkowski

Tales from the Khamseh of Nizami

Mirror of the Invisible World

Walter A. Liedtke

Presents a catalog that surveys the Dutch paintings found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two volumes, including works by the three foremost seventeenth-century Flemish artists{u2014}Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens{u2014}as well as works by their contemporaries. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Flemish Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Laurence B. Kanter

. By way of introduction to the objects themselves are three essays. The first, by Laurence B. Kanter, presents an overview of Florentine illumination between 1300 and 1450 and thumbnail sketches of the artists featured in this volume. The second essay, by Barbara Drake Boehm, focuses on the types of books illuminators helped to create. As most of them were liturgical, her contribution limns for the modern reader the medieval religious ceremonies in which the manuscripts were utilized. Carl Brandon Strehlke here publishes important new material about Fra Angelico's early years and patrons - the result of the author's recent archival research in Florence.

Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300-1450

Charles Otto Zieseniss

Katell Le Bourhis

Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789-1815

The Age of Napoleon

For Private Circulation Among Those Whose Advice is Sought in the Preparation of Final Lists, to Enable Them the More Readily to Make Suggestions to the Special Committee on Casts

Tentative List of Objects Desirable for a Collection of Casts, Sculptural and Architectural, Intended to Illustrate the History of Plastic Art

Amelia Peck

Catalogs the Museum's quilt and coverlet collection and discusses the history of the quiltmaker's art

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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