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Contemporary Art

Stieglitz and His Artists Matisse to O'Keeffe

Mintz Messinger Lisa, Dabrowski Magdalena, Michael Cora, Murphy Jessica, Rewald Sabine, Rippner Samantha, Tolles Thayer

ISBN: HB: 9780300175882, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2011
352 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 440 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

A master photographer, Alfred Stieglitz was also a visionary promoter and avid collector of modern American and European art from the first half of the 20th century. This publication is the first fully-illustrated catalogue of works in the unparallel...

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Decorative Arts

Turkmen Silver Jewelry and Ornaments from the Marshall and Marilyn Wolf Collection

Diba Layla S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300124040, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2011
250 pp., 25x15 cm, 20 black&white illus., 250 colour illus.

The Turkmen people of Central Asia and Iran are revered for their carpets and textiles. Less well known, but equally stunning, is the extraordinary silver jewelry created by Turkmen tribal craftsmen and urban silversmiths throughout the 19th and earl...

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Fashion

Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty

Bolton Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300169782, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2011
224 pp., 34.8x25.9 cm, 250 colour illus.

Alexander McQueen (1969-2010) was one of the most influential, imaginative and inspirational designers at the turn of the millennium. His fashions both challenged and expanded the conventional parameters of clothing beyond utility to a compelling exp...

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Photography

Art and the Early Photographic Album

Bann Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300135909, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2011
288 pp., 28.6x23.8 cm, 63 black&white illus., 131 colour illus.

One of the most prized categories of early photography was the reproduction of artworks, a role in which photographs largely replaced engravings in book imagery during the mid-nineteenth century. Photographs of paintings, sculptures, and other works...

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History of Art

How to Read Greek Vases

Mertens Joan R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300155235, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2010
112 pp., 30x23.5 cm, 75 black&white illus., 100 colour illus.

How is it possible today to gain insight into the culture that flourished in ancient Greece over 2,500 years ago? Works of art are eloquent intermediaries. This generously illustrated volume provides an introduction to the painted pottery that served...

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Fashion

100 Dresses The Costume Institute

Koda Harold

ISBN: PB: 9780300166552, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2010
232 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 28 black&white illus., 153 colour illus.

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 reminde...

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History of Art

Italian Journey Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo

Wolk-Simon Linda, Bambach Carmen C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300155242, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010
192 pp., 30.4x24.7 cm, 50 black&white illus., 90 colour illus.

This handsome book presents highlights from one of America's preeminent private collections of Old Master drawings, assembled over the past fifteen years by Julie and David Tobey. Ranging in date from the 16th through the 18th centuries, some 70 draw...

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History of Art

British Paintings in Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875

Baetjer Katharine

ISBN: HB: 9780300155099, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2010
512 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 215 black&white illus., 140 colour illus.

This is the first comprehensive publication on English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish paintings and pastels by artists born before 1841 in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ranging in date from the late 16th through the third quarter of...

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History of Art

Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-impressionism The Annenberg Collection

Bailey Colin B., Rishel Joseph J., Rosenthal Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300124026, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2009
324 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 60 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

The Walter and Lee Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, watercolours, and drawings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art comprises one of the most remarkable groupings of avantgarde works of art from the mid-19th to the...

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History of Art

Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

Bayer Andrea, Brown Beverly, Edwards Nancy, Fahy Everett, Krohn Deborah L., Musacchio Jacqueline Marie, Thornton Dora, Grantham Turner James, Syson Luke

ISBN: HB: 9780300124118, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2008
352 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Many famous Italian Renaissance artworks were made to celebrate love and marriage. They were the pinnacles of a tradition, dating from the early Renaissance, of commemorating betrothal, marriage, and the birth of a child by commissioning extraordinar...

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