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Grand Design Pieter Coecke Van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry

Cleland Elizabeth A. H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208054, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2014
400 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 350 colour illus.

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 d...

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Contemporary Art

Cubism The Leonard A. Lauder Collection

Rabinow Rebecca, Braun Emily F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208078, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2014
448 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.

This groundbreaking new history of Cubism, based on works from the most significant private collection in the world today, is written by many of the field's premier art historians and scholars. The collection, recently donated to The Metropolitan Mus...

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Decorative Arts

How to Read Islamic Carpets

Denny Walter B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300208092, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2014
176 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 175 colour illus.

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...

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Decorative Arts

Design

Unique by Design Contemporary Jewelry from the Donna Schneier Collection

Ramljak Suzanne

ISBN: PB: 9780300208764, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2014
136 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 101 colour illus.

Studio jewellery dissolves the modern distinction between decorative and fine arts. The 60 pieces in this lively volume, collected by Donna Schneier and donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, were crested primarily from the early 1960s to the pre...

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Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science, and Technology, Volume 2

Centeno Silvia A., Kennedy Nora, Manuels Marijn, Schorsch Deborah, Stone Richard E., Sun Zhixin Jason, Wypyski Mark T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300204391, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2014
256 pp., 27.3x22.9 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

This second volume of "Studies in Art, Science, and Technology" unites studies by scientists, curators and conservators, all of which are published here for the first time. Essays and technical notes address a variety of themes, such as connections b...

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How to Read Oceanic Art

Kjellgren Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780300204292, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2014
176 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

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 arti...

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Piero Della Francesca Personal Encounters

Christiansen Keith

ISBN: PB: 9780300199468, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2014
96 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 40 colour illus.

This book tells the story of Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca (1411/13-1492) by focusing on four paintings he created over the span of his career. It also provides the first study of his small-scale devotional paintings, including the...

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Fashion

Charles James Beyond Fashion

Koda Harold, Reeder Jan Glier, Rucci Ralph, Scaturro Sarah, Petersen Glenn

ISBN: HB: 9780300204360, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2014
300 pp., 33x25.4 cm, 300 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Charles James, often considered to be America's first couturier, was renowned in the 1940s and 1950s as a master at sculpting fabric for the female form and creating fashions that defined mid-century glamour. Although James had no formal training as...

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History of Art

Passions of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

Draper James David, Papet Edouard, Carrara Elena, Horner Nadege, de Margerie Laure, Poinsignon Jean-Claude, Ward-Jackson Philip

ISBN: HB: 9780300204315, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2014
400 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 275 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875) was an extraordinarily gifted sculptor – the greatest in 19th-century France before Rodin – and embodied the emotionally charged artistic climate of his era. The passionate Carpeaux comes alive in this handsome new...

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American West in Bronze, 1850-1925

Tolles Thayer, Smith Thomas B., Clark Carol, Dippie Brian W., Hassrick Peter H., Lemmey Karen, Murphy Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780300197433, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2013
256 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 245 colour images and black&white illus.

"Themes of the American West" have been enduringly popular, and The American West in Bronze features sixty-five iconic bronzes that display a range of subjects, from portrayals of the noble Indian to rough-and-tumble scenes of rowdy cowboys to tribut...

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