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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 Islamic Carpets by Walter B. Denny
Category: Fashion | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Carpets made in the "Rug Belt"--an area that includes Morocco, North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and northern India--have been a source of fascination and collecting since the 13th century. This engaging and accessible book explores the history, design techniques, materials, craftsmanship, an ...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
How to Read Oceanic Art by Eric Kjellgren
Category: Art and Design | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Art from Oceania, the region encompassing the islands of the central and south Pacific, spans hundreds of distinct artistic processes, formats and mediums. Many people's exposure to Oceanic art comes through its influence on the work of European artists, and therefore Oceanic works themselves often rema ...Show more
How to Read Portraits by Kathryn Calley Galitz
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\Metropolitan Museum of Art - How to Read Ser.
This latest volume in The Met's acclaimed How to Read series explores the meaning of portraiture across time and cultures--from funerary masks to realism to abstraction Portraiture goes far beyond capturing a likeness. Portraits speak to such fundamental human concerns as status, relationships, and ide ...Show more
Jewels by Jar by Adrian Sassoon
Category: Fashion | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Called "the Faberge of our time" by Diane von Furstenberg, Joel A. Rosenthal, who works in Paris under the name JAR, is one of the most acclaimed jewellery designers of the past thirty years. JAR is known for his use of precious and semi-precious stones resplendent with myriad shades of vibrant colour a ...Show more
Madame Cezanne by Dita Amory
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Paul Cezanne's (1839--1906) portraits of Hortense Fiquet (1850--1922), his wife and the subject of some of his most iconic portraits, rank among the most powerful of their kind in French modernism. Yet, posterity has not been kind to Madame Cezanne. She was called a distraction, blamed for her husband's ...Show more
Paul Poiret by TROY NANCY J
Category: Fashion | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art
In the annals of fashion history, French couturier Paul Poiret (1879--1944) is known for liberating women from corsets and introducing pantaloons into their wardrobes. However, it is Poiret's remarkable innovations in the cut and construction of clothing, made all the more remarkable by the fact that he ...Show more
Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Gary Tinterow
Category: Art | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art S.
This landmark publication presents, for the first time, a comprehensive catalogue of the works by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) in the Metropolitan Museum. Comprising thirty-four paintings, fifty-nine drawings, a dozen sculptures and ceramics, and more than four hundred prints, the collection reflects the f ...Show more
Punk Chaos to Couture by Andrew Bolton
Category: Fashion | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Secondhand. Since its origins in the 1970s, punk has had an incendiary influence on fashion. With its eclectic mixing of stylistic references, punk effectively introduced the postmodern concept of bricolage not only into directional ready-to-wear but also into the elevated precincts of the haute coutur ...Show more
Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations by Harold Koda
Category: Fashion | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art S.
Although separated by time, Miuccia Prada and Elsa Schiaparelli - both Italian, both feminists - share striking affinities in terms of their design strategies and fashion manifestoes. Presented as an intimate "conversation", "Schiaparelli and Prada" aims to tease out formal and conceptual similarities b ...Show more
The Metropolitan Museum's Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts by Danielle Kisluk-Grosheide (Associate Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Arts)
Category: Interior Design | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art S.
The Metropolitan's holdings of late 17th- and 18th-century French decorative arts, unrivaled outside Europe, are on display in nine magnificent paneled period rooms and three galleries. This suite of spaces is named for Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, whose extraordinary generosity made the installatio ...Show more