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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageNew York Is...: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art presents a captivating journey through the...

Author: Howard HibbardBinding: HardbackPublished: Harrison House New York, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis authoritative volume presents a comprehensive overview of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, chronicling its...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling volume presents a magnificent collection of works by the most influential artists...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA richly detailed work of cultural history, Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the...

Author: Howard HibbardBinding: HardbackPublished: HarperCollins, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive volume presents a magnificent overview of The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, chronicling its vast...

A moving, revelatory story about one of the world's great museums and art's capacity to heal, by a writer who spent a decade as a museum guard. ** THE NEW...

Contemporary Art Underground presents more than 100 permanent projects completed between 2015 and 2023 by MTA Arts & Design. This ground-breaking program of site-specific projects by a broad spectrum of...

Author: Calvin TomkinsBinding: HardbackPublished: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has minor wear and tear along some edges, page...

Author: Calvin TomkinsBinding: HardbackPublished: LONGMAN, 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling non-fiction work chronicles the fascinating genesis and evolution of one of the world's most...

A pioneering study of how Picasso, Braque, and Gris engaged with the pictorial tradition of illusion and deception in their influential Cubist works The age-old tradition of pictorial illusionism, known...

PUBLISHED TO ACCOMPANY THE ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME EXHIBITION AT THE RIJKSMUSEUM, AMSTERDAM, THIS IS THE FIRST MAJOR STUDY ON VERMEER'S LIFE AND WORK FOR MANY YEARS. ---------- 'Proust was once so excited...

Marius de Zayas (1880-1961), a Mexican artist and writer whose caricatures of New York's theatre, dance and social elite brought him to the attention of Alfred Stieglitz and his circle...

An exploration of late nineteenth-century American literary posters-a vibrant genre at the vanguard of modern commercial art and graphic design "Will thrill commercial art nerds and avid readers alike."-Nathalie Atkinson,...

This groundbreaking volume explores the epochal transformations and unexpected continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the seventh to the ninth century. As the period opened, the Empire's southern provinces-the vibrant,...

Author: Cierra Block Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Whether you're a fast-talking, swift-walking local or a tourist visiting the Big Apple for the first time, this book is for...

70 duotone photographs Light of New York How to capture the City That Never Sleeps in chilling moments of serenity? Award winning photographer Jean-Michel Berts does just that in this...

The National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy all saw either radical architectural interventions or rethinks of their mission under Charles Saumarez Smith's leadership, making him uniquely...

Architects have been reformulating the experience of the museum and art itself, transforming the museum's definition: The Louvre Abu Dhabi as a replica of a museum-city, inspired by Paris; the...

A sumptuously illustrated, authoritative introduction to the principal architectural and decorating styles of the American house, from Colonial times to the mid-twentieth century. In this lavishly produced volume, authors Virginia...

Author: Kyung AnFormat: Hardback, 148mm x 196mm, 320g, 136 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2020What is contemporary art? What makes it 'contemporary'? What is it for? And why...

A selection of seventy exceptional seventeenth-century Dutch drawings. This beautifully illustrated catalog presents a selection of exceptional seventeenth-century Dutch drawings from the Peck Collection in the Ackland Art Museum at...

Blue Guides: Complete Cultural Guides -- This is the best-researched, best-presented, most comprehensive cultural guide to New York in the English language covering art, history, architecture and archaeology. With background...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew artists have reshaped the landscape of modern art as radically and unapologetically as Barnett Newman, and this...

The Secret History for a new generation - a tale of toxic obsession, ambition and corrosive friendships with a mysterious pack of tarot cards at the heart of the story...

Photographic chronicle of the history and evolution of New York subway signage, covering porcelain, wood, tin, and mosaic signs from the 1920s to the 1980s. Vintage New York City Subway...

Author: Gary HustwitFormat: Paperback, 127mm x 229mm, 300g, 140 pagesPublished: Plexi Productions, United States, 2022The New York Subway Map Debate documents a pivotal event in design history: the 1978 debate...

Architects have been reformulating the experience of the museum and art itself, transforming the museum's definition: The Louvre Abu Dhabi as a replica of a museum-city, inspired by Paris; the...

In this highly engaging and empowering book, Michael Findlay, an internationally respected art dealer, urges museum goers to unplug from the audio tour, ignore those information labels, and really see...

In this original and highly illustrated book Kenneth Hudson reviews the development of the world's museums over the past 200 years by identifying 37 pioneers in ten countries - from...

In 2021, the Art Gallery of New South Wales celebrates its 150th anniversary. Since its founding as an academy of art in 1871, its evolution into one of Australia's premier...

Author: Phaidon Editors Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The most exciting rising stars in contemporary art - who's who and what's next - featuring 107 artists born since 1980,...

Author: Katharine Bartier And James David DraperBinding: HardbackPublished: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: dust jacket tanned with some wear; inside pages...

Taking their name from the downtown street in Montreal where members shared a studio in the early 1920s, The Beaver Hall Group were early adopters of new modernistic approaches to...

"Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime." With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens to the human relationship with nature when the modern world intervenes? Denatured Visions: Landscape and Culture...

The heroic, #1 New York Times bestselling tale of the men who saved the world's greatest art from the Nazis, and the basis for the acclaimed motion picture starring George...

A 'beautiful story' (Bessel van der Kolk) of trauma and healing, and a non-fiction blockbuster that will captivate reading groups and launch many debates, for readers of Educated and The...

This grand opus assembles the people and the pieces at the heart of the Art Deco movement at each stage of its enduring appeal. The History of the Art Deco...

From the ground, New York City can feel like a chaotic jumble of traffic, pedestrians, one-way streets, parks, and buildings of every shape and size. But above the city, away...

Artistic expression in the Middle East is experiencing something of a renaissance. Domestic patronage is flourishing, and an impressive array of new museums and art fairs across the region is...

Author: Dominique Ehrhard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 30 A fun, interactive pop-up book celebrating the monuments and landmarks that make the Big Apple the world's most popular tourist destination....

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: fading on spine but otherwise jacket is bright.A richly scholarly art catalogue, One Hundred Works On Paper: From...