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100 Dresses: The Costume Institute by Harold Koda
Category: Fashion | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art S.
What woman can resist imagining herself in a beautiful designer dress? Here, for the first time ever, are 100 fabulous gowns from the permanent collection of the renowned Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, each of which is a reminder of the ways fashion reflects the broader culture tha ...Show more
100 Shoes: The Costume Institute / The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Harold Koda
Category: Fashion | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art S.
A hundred pairs of shoes, from the 16th to the 21st century, paint a vivid picture of how shoe styles have changed-sometimes radically-over the years. They also reveal how some trends have reappeared throughout the ages. For instance, platform shoes were worn by fashionable Venetian women from the 15th ...Show more
ANGLOMANIA : TRADITION AND TRANSGRESSION IN BRITISH FASHION by BOLTON ANDREW
Category: Fiction | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art S.
Anglomania, the craze for all things English, gripped Europe during the mid-to-late 18th century. As perceived by Anglophiles such as Voltaire and Montesquieu, England was a land of reason, freedom, and tolerance, a place where the Enlightenment found its greatest expression. What began as an intellectu ...Show more
Age of Transition - Byzantine Culture in the Islamic World by Helen C. Evans (Editor); Robert Schick (Contribution by); Alan Gampel (Contribution by); Arnold E. Franklin (Contribution by); Gabriele Mietke (Contribution by); Lyle Humphrey (Contribution by); Lisa Brody (Contribution by); Carol Snow (Contribution by); Edward Bleiberg (Contribution by); Stephen Fine (Contribution by); Annie Labatt (Contribution by); Hieromonk Justin Hieromonk Justin of Sinai (Contribution by); Lawrence Nees (Contribution by)
Category: Books | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art (MAA) (YUP) Ser.
In 2012 the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, a groundbreaking exhibition that explored the transformations and continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the 7th to the 9th century. During this time of historic upheaval, Christian and Jewish communities encount ...Show more
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty by Andrew Bolton
Category: Fashion | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art S.
Arguably the most influential, imaginative, and provocative designer of his generation, Alexander McQueen both challenged and expanded fashion conventions to express ideas about race, class, sexuality, religion, and the environment. Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty examines the full breadth of the desig ...Show more
Faking it: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop by Mia Fineman
Category: Photography | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art S.
It is a long-held truism that 'the camera does not lie'. Yet, as Mia Fineman argues in this illuminating volume, that statement contains its own share of untruth. While modern technological innovations, such as Adobe's Photoshop software, have accustomed viewers to more obvious levels of image manipulat ...Show more
GRAND DESIGN PIETER COECKE VANAELST & THE RENAISSANCE TAPESTRY by Elizabeth Cleland (Editor)
Category: Art and Design | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art (MAA) (YUP) Ser.
Renowned throughout Renaissance Europe, Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502-1550) produced works for the wealthiest and most important patrons of the time, including Emperor Charles V, Francis I of France, Henry VIII of England, the Habsburgs, and Cosimo de Medici. While he is best known for his magnificent t ...Show more
Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination by Andrew Bolton
Category: Home and Garden | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art (MAA) (YUP) Ser.
A brilliant exploration of fashion's complex engagement with the great art and artifacts of Catholic faith and practice Since antiquity, religious beliefs and practices have inspired many of the masterworks of art. These works of art have, in turn, fueled the imagination of fashion designers in the 20th ...Show more
How to Read Buddhist Art by BEHRENDT KURT A
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\Metropolitan Museum of Art - How to Read Ser.
This book surveys the long and complex visual tradition of Buddhism by examining in depth sixty seminal works from China, the Himalayas, Japan, Korea, and South and Southeast Asia.
How to Read European Decorative Arts by Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide (Contribution by)
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\Metropolitan Museum of Art - How to Read Ser.
Illuminating three centuries of European artistry and ingenuity, this volume in The Met's acclaimed How to Read series provides a wide-ranging exploration of decorative arts from British writing tables to Russian snuffboxes Spanning three centuries of creativity, from the High Renaissance to the Indust ...Show more
How to Read Islamic Calligraphy by Maryam D. Ekhtiar
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\Metropolitan Museum of Art - How to Read Ser.
An accessible introduction to the quintessential art form of the Islamic worldHow to Read Islamic Calligraphy explores the preeminence of the written word as a means of creative expression throughout the Islamic world. Aimed at a general audience, the book introduces all five major Islamic calligraphic ...Show more
How to Read Medieval Art by Stein Wendy A
Category: Art Books | Series: The\Metropolitan Museum of Art - How to Read Ser.
An enlightening, accessible guide to understanding and appreciating European art from the Middle Ages How to Read Medieval Art introduces the art of the European Middle Ages through 50 notable examples from the Metropolitan Museum's collection, which is one of the most comprehensive in the world. This h ...Show more