If you cant devote the next 30 years of your life to running the metropolitan museum of art, but you do have a hunger to learn more about artists and wo. Moore who had served as a trustee since 1995 and as chairman since 2004. Unit 2702, nuo centre 2a jiangtai road, chaoyang district beijing 16, p. This is a revised edition of the guide to the metropolitan museum of art, new york. Their book, rendezvous with art, is structured around the conversations they had in churches, museums, and art galleries around the world. The book hints at the history of the museum as a societal institution and yields insights into the benefits and shortcomings of seeing art in a museum setting, where our access to objects often entails severing them from their original content. Metpublications is a portal to the mets comprehensive book and online publishing program with close to 700 titles published from 1964 to the present. The metropolitan museum of art guide metropolitan museum of art new york, n. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Here we can see a statue from the very beginnings of civilization and moments later stand before a painting completed only last year. Essentially the contents consist of a series of brief articles around 510 pages by various departmental curators e. Works from every land and every people have their place here.
Haute couture metpublications the metropolitan museum. In your new book rendezvous with art, you mostly focus on ancient. Its an intimate look into the pleasures and pitfalls of art. The riches of the metropolitan museum of art are truly encyclopedic. The extraordinary chronological range of the collections is matched by their geographical scope. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over. He was graduated magna cum laude from harvard college in 1958 with a b. From january 2009 montebello took up a post as the first fiske kimball professor in the history and culture. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Get the best deal by comparing prices from over 100,000 booksellers.
The metropolitan museum of art guide metropolitan museum of. He is interviewed by chief art critic for the new york times. From january 2009 montebello took up a post as the first fiske kimball. On his retirement, he was both the longestserving director in the institutions history, and the third longestserving director of any major art museum in the world first is irina antonova, who was the director of the pushkin. Masterpieces of the metropolitan museum of art barbara. The book focuses on the highly skilled crafts that are essential to the production of haute couture. He served from 1977 to 2008 as the director of the metropolitan museum of art in new york. Isbn 9783797657 9783797657 hardcover, te neues pub group, 1986. The metropolitan museum of art guide metropolitan museum. Separate chapters examine tailoring techniques and finishes, weaving, draping, and the intricate decoration produced by embroiderers, feathermakers, and other craftspeople on whom couturiers rely for the execution of their ideas. Masterpieces of the metropolitan museum of art book. But whether they were in the louvre or the prado, the mauritshuis of the palazzo pitti, they reveal the pleasures of truly looking.
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