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Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). American Wing,Marshall B. Davidson
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Art museums
ISBN : 9780870992384
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). American Wing,Marshall B. Davidson,Elizabeth Stillinger
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870994241
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). American Wing
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588390134
The Metropolitan’s renowned American Wing is where the Museum’s unsurpassed collection of American fine and decorative art is on permanent public display, from masterpieces of painting, sculpture, and drawing to exquisite examples of the finest American furniture, silver, glass, ceramics, and textiles. This handsome volume presents an overview of the collection and provides an informative walk through the American Wing’s richly furnished period rooms and stunning architectural displays. These include the magnificent marble façade of the Branch Bank of the United States—the entrance to the original American Wing when it opened in 1924—and the restored living room of a Frank Lloyd Wright prairie-style house. The comprehensive survey of paintings and sculpture begins with early colonial portraiture and from there follows the emergence and development of a national fine-arts tradition, including significant movements and genres such as the Hudson River School, neoclassical sculpture, and American Impressionism. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Author : R. T. H. Halsey,Charles O. Cornelius
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1938-08-15
Category : Design
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is devoted to American art of the colonial, revolutionary, and early republican periods. This handbook includes floor plans of the American Wing galleries as they appeared in 1938 and presents academic essays alongside a catalogue of the collection which describes the dominant ornamentation, materials, and styles of early America's decorative arts.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). American Wing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Art objects
ISBN : OCLC:192117873
Author : Gaylord Torrence,Ned Blackhawk,Sylvia Yount
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588396624
This landmark publication reevaluates historical Native American art as a crucial but under-examined component of American art history. The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection, a transformative promised gift to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, includes masterworks from more than fifty cultures across North America. The works highlighted in this volume span centuries, from before contact with European settlers to the early twentieth century. In this beautifully illustrated volume, featuring all new photography, the innovative visions of known and unknown makers are presented in a wide variety of forms, from painting, sculpture, and drawing to regalia, ceramics, and baskets. The book provides key insights into the art, culture, and daily life of culturally distinct Indigenous peoples along with critical and popular perceptions over time, revealing that to engage Native art is to reconsider the very meaning of America. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}
Author : Richard Guy Wilson,Shaun Eyring,Kenny Marotta
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0813923484
Although individually and collectively Americans have many histories, the dominant view of our national past focuses on the colonial era. The reasons for this are many and complex, touching on stories of the country's origins and of the founding fathers, the privileged position in history granted the thirteen original colonies, and the ways in which the nation has adjusted to change and modernity. But no matter the cause, the result is obvious: images and forms derived from and related to America's colonial past are the single most popular form of cultural expression. Often conceived solely in architectural terms, from the red-brick and white-trimmed buildings that recall eighteenth-century James River estates to the clapboarded saltboxes that recall early New England, Colonial Revival is in fact better understood as a process of remembering. In Re-creating the American Past, architectural historian Richard Guy Wilson and a host of other scholars examine how and why Colonial Revival has persisted in modern times. The volume contains essays that explore Colonial Revival expressions in architecture, landscape architecture, historic preservation, decorative arts, and painting and sculpture, as well as the social, intellectual, and cultural background of the phenomena. Based on the University of Virginia's landmark 2000 conference "The Colonial Revival in America," Re-creating the American Past is a comprehensive and handsome volume that recovers the origins, characteristics, diversity, and significance of the Colonial Revival, situating it within the broader history of American design, culture, and society.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Art, American
ISBN : OCLC:718501024
Author : Metropolitan Museum Of Art,Linda Falken
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0810988909
This new title in the series features paintings, prints, and textiles from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Each work is characteristically American, and each is filled with a wealth of details to discover. Full color.
Author : Wees, Beth Carver,Harvey, Medill Higgins
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781588394910
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Author : Jeffrey Trask
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812205657
American art museums of the Gilded Age were established as civic institutions intended to provide civilizing influences to an urban public, but the parochial worldview of their founders limited their democratic potential. Instead, critics have derided nineteenth-century museums as temples of spiritual uplift far removed from the daily experiences and concerns of common people. But in the early twentieth century, a new generation of cultural leaders revolutionized ideas about art institutions by insisting that their collections and galleries serve the general public. Things American: Art Museums and Civic Culture in the Progressive Era tells the story of the civic reformers and arts professionals who brought museums from the realm of exclusivity into the progressive fold of libraries, schools, and settlement houses. Jeffrey Trask's history focuses on New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which stood at the center of this movement to preserve artifacts from the American past for social change and Americanization. Metropolitan trustee Robert de Forest and pioneering museum professional Henry Watson Kent influenced a wide network of fellow reformers and cultural institutions. Drawing on the teachings of John Dewey and close study of museum developments in Germany and Great Britain, they expanded audiences, changed access policies, and broadened the scope of what museums collect and display. They believed that tasteful urban and domestic environments contributed to good citizenship and recognized the economic advantages of improving American industrial production through design education. Trask follows the influence of these people and ideas through the 1920s and 1930s as the Met opened its innovative American Wing while simultaneously promoting modern industrial art. Things American is not only the first critical history of the Metropolitan Museum. The book also places museums in the context of the cultural politics of the progressive movement—illustrating the limits of progressive ideas of democratic reform as well as the boldness of vision about cultural capital promoted by museums and other cultural institutions.
Author : Patrick Bringley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982163327
A best book of the year from New York Public Library, NPR, the Financial Times, Book Riot, and the Sunday Times (London). A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard. Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny. They’re the guards who roam unobtrusively in dark blue suits, keeping a watchful eye on the two million square foot treasure house. Caught up in his glamorous fledgling career at The New Yorker, Patrick Bringley never thought he’d be one of them. Then his older brother was diagnosed with fatal cancer and he found himself needing to escape the mundane clamor of daily life. So he quit The New Yorker and sought solace in the most beautiful place he knew. To his surprise and the reader’s delight, this temporary refuge becomes Bringley’s home away from home for a decade. We follow him as he guards delicate treasures from Egypt to Rome, strolls the labyrinths beneath the galleries, wears out nine pairs of company shoes, and marvels at the beautiful works in his care. Bringley enters the museum as a ghost, silent and almost invisible, but soon finds his voice and his tribe: the artworks and their creators and the lively subculture of museum guards—a gorgeous mosaic of artists, musicians, blue-collar stalwarts, immigrants, cutups, and dreamers. As his bonds with his colleagues and the art grow, he comes to understand how fortunate he is to be walled off in this little world, and how much it resembles the best aspects of the larger world to which he gradually, gratefully returns. In the tradition of classic workplace memoirs like Lab Girl and Working Stiff, All The Beauty in the World is a surprising, inspiring portrait of a great museum, its hidden treasures, and the people who make it tick, by one of its most intimate observers.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). American Wing,Marshall B. Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Art museums
ISBN : IND:39000005711069
Author : Andrew Bolton,Amanda Garfinkel,Jessica Regan,Stephanie Kramer
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588397348
A new glossary of American fashion explores the expressive qualities of works by pioneering designers, who established the nation’s style, and the up-and-coming designers shaping its future. In America: A Lexicon of Fashion presents a modern vocabulary of American dress that emphasizes emotions while not discounting the simple, practical, and egalitarian character that has traditionally separated American ready-to-wear from European haute couture. Stunning new photography showcases over 100 garments from the 1940s to the present that offer a timely new perspective on the diverse and multifaceted nature of American fashion. The catalogue features works that display qualities such as belonging, comfort, desire, exuberance, fellowship, joy, nostalgia, optimism, reverence, spontaneity, strength, and sweetness by well-known designers and emerging creatives, including: Gilbert Adrian Geoffrey Beene Thom Browne Bonnie Cashin Willy Chavarria Olivia Cheng Telfar Clemens Oscar de la Renta Colm Dillane Perry Ellis Tremaine Emory Tom Ford Rudi Gernreich Halston Elizabeth Hawes Carolina Herrera Conner Ives Charles James Kerby Jean-Raymond Donna Karan Calvin Klein Michael Kors Ralph Lauren Vera Maxwell Claire McCardell Norman Norell Heron Preston Christopher John Rogers Raul Solís Hillary Taymour Diane von Furstenberg Vera Wang
Author : Amelia Peck,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870995927
Catalogs the Museum's quilt and coverlet collection and discusses the history of the quiltmaker's art
