Boston Museum Of The Fine Arts

Author : Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,Gilian Shallcross,Maureen Melton,Adam Tessier
Publisher : Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 0878468625

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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,Gilian Shallcross,Maureen Melton,Adam Tessier Pdf

The authoritative guide to the MFA Boston's era-spanning collections of art, ceramics, jewelry and much more This newly updated edition of the definitive guide to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's most enduring masterpieces provides an enticing introduction to a collection that circles the globe and spans thousands of years. Featuring more than 500 works of art--from Native American ceramics to European silver, Egyptian funerary arts to Warhol silkscreens, alongside world-renowned paintings and sculpture, all reproduced in vibrant color--this substantial guide invites readers and visitors alike to experience the surprise, delight and inspiration offered by the collections of a major museum.

Author : CHRISTINE. NESIN KONDOLEON (KATE.)
Publisher : MFA Publications
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 0878468749

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Cy Twombly: Making Past Present by CHRISTINE. NESIN KONDOLEON (KATE.) Pdf

Luscious reproductions of more than 50 of Twombly's paintings, drawings and little-known sculptures, along with classical works of art, tell the story of an American abstractionist's poetical dialogue with antiquity Cy Twombly's first visit to Italy as a young man ignited a lifelong passion for classical culture that is everywhere present in his art. Painted canvases, works on paper and small-scale sculptures reveal the historical soul of Twombly's abstract compositions. Taking on myths and heroes as personal guides, he created a psychologically complex dialogue with the visual and literary art of antiquity. This sumptuously illustrated publication reproduces a carefully chosen selection of the artist's paintings, drawings and sculptures alongside works of classical antiquity, including a number from his personal collection. Illuminating essays by leading scholars and writers, including Anne Carson, Jennifer R. Gross, Brooke Holmes and Mary Jacobus, explore the often enigmatic engagement of Twombly's art with the world of the past. Cy Twombly(1928-2011) was born in Lexington, Virginia, and lived and worked in New York in the early 1950s and at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. After traveling around North Africa, Spain and Italy, he settled in Rome, where he remained for the rest of his life.

Author : Gerald W. R. Ward,Dale Chihuly
Publisher : Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0878467645

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Chihuly by Gerald W. R. Ward,Dale Chihuly Pdf

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Apr. 10-Aug. 7, 2011.

Author : Lowery Stokes Sims,Dennis Carr,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Publisher : Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 0878468153

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Common Wealth by Lowery Stokes Sims,Dennis Carr,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Pdf

The story of African Americans in the visual arts has closely paralleled their social, political and economic aspirations over the last four hundred years. From enslaved craftspersons to contemporary painters, printmakers and sculptors, they have created a wealth of artistic expression that addresses common experiences, such as exclusion from dominant cultural institutions, and confronts questions of identity and community. This generously illustrated volume gathers works by leading figures from the nineteenth century to the present Henry Ossawa Tanner, Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Lois Mailou Jones, Gordon Parks, Wifredo Lam, Kara Walker, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall alongside many others who deserve to be better known, including artists from the African diaspora in South America and the Caribbean. Arranged thematically and accompanied by authoritative texts that provide historical and interpretive context, this book invites readers to share in a rich outpouring of art that meets shared challenges with individual creative responses.

Author : Hiromi Kinoshita,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Publisher : MFA Highlights
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 0878467890

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Arts of China by Hiromi Kinoshita,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Pdf

The Chinese art collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is one of the finest outside East Asia, with particularly superb holdings of paintings and ceramics, along with important sculptures, bronzes and examples of the decorative arts. Some 100 objects have been selected here to represent its riches, arranged to explore themes such as religion or the scholar tradition throughout China's long history. The works featured in Arts of China range from Neolithic tomb artifacts to contemporary painting and include exquisite porcelains, paintings, sculptures, lacquerware and metalwork created for worship, court life, foreign trade or everyday use. Many reflect engagement with earlier traditions or with cultures outside China, including those of Central Asia and India as well as Europe and America. Enhanced with illuminating essays, this book offers an ideal introduction to the breathtaking beauty and variety of Chinese art.

Author : Charles Giuliano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0996171576

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Museum of Fine Arts Boston: 1870 To 2020 by Charles Giuliano Pdf

In 1970 the Museum of Fine Arts commissioned a two-volume Centennial history by its trustee, Walter Muir Whitehill. That was a time of turmoil as then director Perry T. Rathbone was forced to resign resulting from the questionable acquisition of a portrait by Raphael later returned to Italy.Instability followed with the quick succession of acting director, Cornelius Vermeule, the ill-fated Merrill Rueppel, then Asiatic curator, Jan Fontein promoted from acting to full time director. Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1870 to 2020: An Oral History is only the second publication chronicling 150 years of a great museum with aspects of its collection second to none. The book summarizes events of the first century with a vivid update of what has occurred since then.The fascinating story of a world-class museum is updated in the words of each of its directors from Perry T. Rathbone to Matthew Teitelbaum. There are also interviews with curators, trustees, art historians, administrators, and arts journalists.The founders were individuals of class and privilege who gave generously. The tone of Brahmin elitism changed by the 1950s as the museum expanded and become more costly to maintain. There was a search for new money and expansion of the board to include Jews and people of color. By the 1960s the museum drew broad criticism for its elitism and indifference to modern/ contemporary art and Boston's contemporary artists, including the Jewish Boston Expressionists. Charges of racism have accelerated in the past few years as they have for all cultural institutions. The MFA has been charged with a transition from the "Our Museum" of its founders to a "Museum for all the people of Boston" under current director Matthew Teitelbaum.As an observer and writer, Charles Giuliano is a consummate insider. In 1963 upon graduation from Brandeis University he worked for two and a half years as a conservation intern for the Egyptian Department. He later became one of Boston's most influential art critics covering the museum for a range of publications. This book is the culmination of that coverage since the 1960s.

Author : Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Art
ISBN : HARVARD:32044053892337

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Boston Museum of the Fine Arts by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Pdf

Author : Pamela Parmal
Publisher : MFA Publications
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 0878468765

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Fabric of a Nation by Pamela Parmal Pdf

A mother stitches a few lines of prayer into a bedcover for her son serving in the Union army during the Civil War. A formerly enslaved African American woman creates a quilt populated by Biblical figures alongside celestial events. A Diné women weaves a blanket for a U.S. Army soldier stationed in the Southwest. A quilted Lady Liberty, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln mark the resignation of Richard Nixon. These are just a few of the diverse and sometimes hidden stories of the American experience told by quilts and bedcovers from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Spanning more than four hundred years, the fifty-six works of textile art in this book express the personal narratives of their makers and owners and connect to broader stories of global trade, immigration, industry, marginalization, and territorial and cultural expansion. Made by Americans of European, African, Native, and Hispanic heritage, these engaging works of art range from family heirlooms to acts of political protest, each with its own story to tell.

Author : Boston, Mass. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,Hilliard T. Goldfarb,Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, Mass.).
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300063415

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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum by Boston, Mass. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,Hilliard T. Goldfarb,Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, Mass.). Pdf

"This book takes you through the collection gallery by gallery, illuminating the art and installations in each room"--From preface.

Author : Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,Carol Troyen,Charlotte M. Emans,Priscilla Kate Diamond
Publisher : Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0878464484

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American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,Carol Troyen,Charlotte M. Emans,Priscilla Kate Diamond Pdf

-- Represented are major holdings or works by John Singleton Coplay, Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent. -- The Collection ranges from Colonial portraits to works by Hopper, Stella, O'Keeffe and Pollock. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, owns one of the nation's preeminent collections of American paintings. Every painting in the Museum's collection - more than 1,600 in all - is recorded and illustrated in this book, the first comprehensive catalogue of the collection to appear in nearly thirty years. The American holdings at the Museum grew by gift and purchase, and this catalogue and its introductory essay trace the evolution of the collection from an important gathering of local artists to its present status as a truly encyclopedic representation of American art. Extensive new research, resulting in a significant number of changed attributions and titles (summarizes in the book's five indices), make this catalogue an indispensable tool for scholars and American art enthusiasts alike.

Author : Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,Pamela A. Parmal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015066813505

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Textile & Fashion Arts by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,Pamela A. Parmal Pdf

This book presents one hundred of the finest textiles and fashion arts produced by weavers, embroiderers, and designers around the globe. Twenty-nine short essays introduce some of the major techniques and genres that textile makers have invented over the past twenty-five hundred years of human history.--[book cover].

Author : JULIA deWOLF ADDISON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS by JULIA deWOLF ADDISON Pdf

Author : George T. M. Shackelford,Edgar Degas,Xavier Rey,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Nude in art
ISBN : 0500093628

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Degas and the Nude by George T. M. Shackelford,Edgar Degas,Xavier Rey,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Pdf

The nude figure was critical to the art of Edgar Degas throughout his life, and yet his expansive body of work on this subject has been overshadowed by his celebrated portraits and dancers. Degas and the Nude is the first book in a generation to explore the artist's treatment of the nude from his early years in the 1850s and 1860s, through his triumphs in the 1880s and 1890s, all the way to his last decades, when the theme dominated his artistic production in all media. With essays by leading critics, the book aims to provide a new interpretation of Degas's evolving conception of the nude and to situate it in the subject's broader context among his peers in 19th-century France. Among the scores of reproductions is one of the most important of Degas's early paintings, Scene of War in the Middle Ages, which exerted a lifelong influence on the artist's treatment of the female nude and includes poses poses repeated throughout his career. Also included are monotypes of the late 1870s, which illustrate Degas's most explicitly sexual depictions of women in Parisian brothels, and pictures portraying the daily life of women wherever they resided. Together these iterations range over more than a half-century of virtuoso achievement and manifest a groundbreaking look at the evolution of this master artist.

Author : Dennis Andrew Carr,Dennis Carr,Gauvin A. Bailey,Timothy Brook,Mitchell Codding,Karina Corrigan,Donna Pierce
Publisher : Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Decorative arts
ISBN : 0878468129

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Made in the Americas by Dennis Andrew Carr,Dennis Carr,Gauvin A. Bailey,Timothy Brook,Mitchell Codding,Karina Corrigan,Donna Pierce Pdf

The spectacular arts of the first global age fostered by a rich cultural interchange between Asia and the Americas Made in the Americas reveals the overlooked history of Asia's profound influence on the arts of the colonial Americas. Beginning in the 16th century, European outposts in the New World, especially those in New Spain, became a major nexus of the Asian export trade. Craftsmen from Canada to Peru, inspired by the sophisticated designs and advanced techniques of these imported goods, combined Asian styles with local traditions to produce unparalleled furniture, silverwork, textiles, ceramics, lacquer, painting and architectural ornaments. Among the exquisite objects featured in this book, from across the hemisphere and spanning the 17th to the early 19th centuries, are folding screens made in Mexico in imitation of imported Japanese and Chinese screens; blue-and-white talavera ceramics copied from Chinese porcelains; luxuriously woven textiles, made to replicate fine silks and cottons from China and India; devotional statues that adapt Buddhist gods into Christian saints; and japanned furniture produced in Boston that simulates Asian lacquer finishes. The stories told by the objects gathered in Made in the Americas bring to life the rich cultural interchange and the spectacular arts of the first global age.

Author : Liz Munsell,Greg Tate
Publisher : MFA Publications
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 0878468714

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Writing the Future by Liz Munsell,Greg Tate Pdf

How hip-hop culture and graffiti electrified the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat and his contemporaries in 1980s New York In the early 1980s, art and writing labeled as graffiti began to transition from New York City walls and subway trains onto canvas and into art galleries. Young artists who freely sampled from their urban experiences and their largely Black, Latinx and immigrant histories infused the downtown art scene with expressionist, pop and graffiti-inspired compositions. Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) became the galvanizing, iconic frontrunner of this transformational and insurgent movement in contemporary American art, which resulted in an unprecedented fusion of creative energies that defied longstanding racial divisions. Writing the Future features Basquiat's works in painting, sculpture, drawing, video, music and fashion, alongside works by his contemporaries--and sometimes collaborators--A-One, ERO, Fab 5 Freddy, Futura, Keith Haring, Kool Koor, LA2, Lady Pink, Lee Quiñones, Rammellzee and Toxic. Throughout the 1980s, these artists fueled new directions in fine art, design and music, reshaping the predominantly white art world and driving the now-global popularity of hip-hop culture. Writing the Future, published to accompany a major exhibition, contextualizes Basquiat's work in relation to his peers associated with hip-hop culture. It also marks the first time Basquiat's extensive, robust and reflective portraiture of his Black and Latinx friends and fellow artists has been given prominence in scholarship on his oeuvre. With contributions from Carlo McCormick, Liz Munsell, Hua Hsu, J. Faith Almiron and Greg Tate, Writing the Future captures the energy, inventiveness and resistance unleashed when hip-hop hit the city.