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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
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
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