Petrit Halilaj
ISBN: PB: 9781588397768,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
July 2024
64 pp., 18,4x10,8 cm, 40 colour illus.
64 pp., 18,4x10,8 cm, 40 colour illus.
This exploration of Petrit Halilaj's site-specific installation reflects the artist's personal experience as a refugee of war and the universal hopes and fears captured in children's drawings.
Petrit Halilaj (b. 1986, Kosovo) is known for installat...
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£7.95
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How to Read Portraits
ISBN: PB: 9781588397645,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
May 2024
176 pp., 26,7x20,3 cm, 150 colour illus.
176 pp., 26,7x20,3 cm, 150 colour illus.
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 fun...
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Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
ISBN: HB: 9781588397737,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
February 2024
336 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 264 colour illus.
336 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 264 colour illus.
A groundbreaking volume resituating the Harlem Renaissance as integral to the development of twentieth-century modernism.
Beginning in the 1920s, Upper Manhattan became the center of an explosion of art, writing, and ideas that has since become leg...
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Art for the Millions
American Culture and Politics in the 1930s
ISBN: HB: 9781588397690,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
September 2023
208 pp., 25,4x22,9 cm, 180 colour images
208 pp., 25,4x22,9 cm, 180 colour images
Reveals how American art in the 1930s – intertwined with the political, social, and economic tumult of an era not so unlike our own – engaged with the public amid global upheaval.
Focusing on the unprecedented dissemination of art and ideas brought...
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Picasso
A Cubist Commission in Brooklyn
ISBN: HB: 9781588397683,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
August 2023
112 pp., 22,9x17,8 cm, 100 colour illus.
112 pp., 22,9x17,8 cm, 100 colour illus.
New scholarship on a little-known decorative commission undertaken by Pablo Picasso offers insight into the artist's painting process and the evolution of Cubism.
In 1910, Pablo Picasso began a series of 11 decorative paintings intended for the Bro...
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Lauren Halsey
The Roof Garden Commission
ISBN: PB: 9781588397492,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
July 2023
64 pp., 18,4x11,0 cm, 40 colour illus.
64 pp., 18,4x11,0 cm, 40 colour illus.
Lauren Halsey's diverse artistic influences, including Afrofuturism, ancient Egyptian iconography, and the architecture and community in her native Los Angeles, feature prominently in her latest site-specific installation.
In her 2023 site-specific...
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Cecily Brown
Death and the Maid
ISBN: HB: 9781588397614,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
March 2023
140 pp., 25,4x22,9 cm, 81 colour illus.
140 pp., 25,4x22,9 cm, 81 colour illus.
An intimate survey of Cecily Brown's paintings, drawings, and prints, providing a meditation on the intertwined themes of still life, memento mori, and vanitas in her work.
Cecily Brown (b. 1969) transfixes viewers with sumptuous color, bravura brus...
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Charles Ray
Figure Ground
ISBN: PB: 9781588397423,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
February 2022
112 pp., 25,4x22,9 cm, 87 colour illus.
112 pp., 25,4x22,9 cm, 87 colour illus.
This career-spanning publication features conceptual, political, formal, and technical perspectives on the work of contemporary sculptor Charles Ray.
For Charles Ray (born 1953), sculpture is a way of thinking that informs his work across a wide ran...
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Surrealism Beyond Borders
ISBN: HB: 9781588397270,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
October 2021
384 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 340 colour illus.
384 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 340 colour illus.
This groundbreaking book challenges conventional narratives of Surrealism, tracing its impact and legacy from the 1920s to the late 1970s in places as diverse as Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines, Romania, Syria, Thailan...
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Modern Times
British Prints, 1913-1939
ISBN: HB: 9781588397393,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
September 2021
200 pp., 25,4x22,9 cm, 140 colour illus.
200 pp., 25,4x22,9 cm, 140 colour illus.
Throughout the tumultuous decades of the early twentieth century, the graphic arts flourished in Great Britain as artists sought to portray everyday life during the machine age. This richly illustrated volume reintroduces rare print works from the co...
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