Author: Marilyn JenkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
The 'Fabled East' at the Met
Author: Marilyn JenkinsHatshepsut, from Queen to Pharaoh
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588391736
Category : Architecture, Egyptian
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A fascinating look at the artistically productive reign of Hatshepsut, a female pharaoh in ancient Egypt
Islamic Jewelry in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870993267
Category : Islamic jewelry
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Making The Met, 1870–2020
Author: Andrea BayerPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588397092
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Published to celebrate The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 150th anniversary, Making The Met, 1870–2020 examines the institution’s evolution from an idea—that art can inspire anyone who has access to it—to one of the most beloved global collections in the world. Focusing on key transformational moments, this richly illustrated book provides insight into the visionary figures and events that led The Met in new directions. Among the many topics explored are the impact of momentous acquisitions, the central importance of education and accessibility, the collaboration that resulted from international excavations, the Museum’s role in preserving cultural heritage, and its interaction with contemporary art and artists. Complementing this fascinating history are more than two hundred works that changed the very way we look at art, as well as rarely seen archival and behind-the-scenes images. In the final chapter, Met Director Max Hollein offers a meditation on evolving approaches to collecting art from around the world, strategies for reaching new and diverse audiences, and the role of museums today.
Art of the Ancient Near East
Author: Kim BenzelPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588393585
Category : Art, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
"Provides the cultural, archaeological, and historical contexts for a selection of thirty works of art in the Metropolitan Museum's collection"--Slipcase.
Metropolitan Stories
Author: Christine CoulsonPublisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1590510631
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
“Only someone who deeply loves and understands the Metropolitan Museum could deliver such madcap, funny, magical, tender, intimate fables and stories.” —Maira Kalman, artist and bestselling author of The Principles of Uncertainty From a writer who worked at the Metropolitan Museum for more than twenty-five years, an enchanting novel that shows us the Met that the public doesn't see. Hidden behind the Picassos and Vermeers, the Temple of Dendur and the American Wing, exists another world: the hallways and offices, conservation studios, storerooms, and cafeteria that are home to the museum's devoted and peculiar staff of 2,200 people—along with a few ghosts. A surreal love letter to this private side of the Met, Metropolitan Stories unfolds in a series of amusing and poignant vignettes in which we discover larger-than-life characters, the downside of survival, and the powerful voices of the art itself. The result is a novel bursting with magic, humor, and energetic detail, but also a beautiful book about introspection, an ode to lives lived for art, ultimately building a powerful collage of human experience and the world of the imagination.
Freedom
Author: Kara Elizabeth WalkerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780966013900
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
"The future vision of a soon-to-be emancipated 19th century Negress."--Prelim. leaf.
Fables of the East
Author: Ros BallasterPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191556173
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Fables of the East is the first anthology to provide textual examples of representations of oriental cultures in the early modern period drawn from a variety of genres: travel writing, histories, and fiction. Organized according to genre in order to illustrate the diverse shapes the oriental tale adopted in the period, the extracts cover the popular sequence of oriental tales, the pseudo-oriental tale, travels and history, and letter fictions. Authors represented range from the familiar - Joseph Addison, Horace Walpole, Montesquieu, Oliver Goldsmith - to authors of great popularity in their own time who have since faded in reputation such as James Ridley, Alexander Dow, and Eliza Haywood. The selection has been devised to call attention to the diversity in the ways that different oriental cultures are represented to English readers. Readers of this anthology will be able to identify a contrast between the luxury, excess, and sexuality associated with Islamic Turkey, Persia, and Mughal India and the wisdom, restraint, and authority invested in Brahmin India and Confucian China. Fables of the East redraws the cultural map we have inherited of the eighteenth century, demonstrating contemporary interest in gentile and 'idolatrous' religions, in Confucianism and Buddhism especially, and that the construction of the Orient in the western imagination was not exclusively one of an Islamic Near and Middle East. Ros Ballster's introduction addresses the importance of the idea of 'fable' to traditions of narrative and representations of the East. Each text is accompanied by explanatory head and footnotes, also provided is a glossary of oriental terms and places that were familiar to the texts' eighteenth-century readers.
Tales and Novels in Verse
Author: Jean de La FontaineEast Asian Lacquer
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870996223
Category : Lacquer and lacquering
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Irving Collection represents a wide range of styles and techniques from the 13th through the twentieth centuries.