Alice Neel
People Come First
ISBN: HB: 9781588397256,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
January 2021
256 pp., 29,2x20,3 cm, 200 colour illus.
256 pp., 29,2x20,3 cm, 200 colour illus.
"For me, people come first," Alice Neel (1900-1984) declared in 1950. "I have tried to assert the dignity and eternal importance of the human being". This ambitious publication surveys Neel's nearly 70-year career through the lens of her radical huma...
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35.00 GBP
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Making The Met, 1870-2020
ISBN: HB: 9781588397096,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
April 2020
278 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 275 colour and black&white illus.
278 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 275 colour and black&white illus.
Published to celebrate the Museum's 150th anniversary, "Making The Met" examines the institution's evolution from an idea – that art can elevate anyone who has access to it – to one of the most beloved encyclopedic collections in the world. Focusing...
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40.00 GBP
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Gerhard Richter
Painting After All
ISBN: HB: 9781588396853,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
March 2020
280 pp., 26,6x24,1 cm, 230 colour illus.
280 pp., 26,6x24,1 cm, 230 colour illus.
Over the course of his acclaimed 60-year career, Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) has employed both representation and abstraction as a means of reckoning with the legacy, collective memory, and national sensibility of post–Second World War Germany, in both...
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35.00 GBP
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Alicja Kwade: ParaPivot
The Roof Garden Commission
ISBN: PB: 9781588396679,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
June 2019
64 pp., 18,4x11,0 cm, 58 colour illus.
64 pp., 18,4x11,0 cm, 58 colour illus.
Contemporary artist Alicja Kwade (b. 1979) has received international acclaim for her minimalist, large-scale sculptures and installations intended to parse, but not resolve, various scientific and metaphysical conundrums. Kwade's site-specific insta...
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7.95 GBP
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Everything Is Connected
Art and Conspiracy
ISBN: HB: 9781588396594,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
October 2018
272 pp., 26,7x22,9 cm, 222 colour illus.
272 pp., 26,7x22,9 cm, 222 colour illus.
Shaped by events such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair, and 9/11, conspiracy theories have flourished and influenced our collective worldview. This provocative book examines how artists from...
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40.00 GBP
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Like Life
Sculpture, Color, and the Body
ISBN: HB: 9781588396440,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
April 2018
312 pp., 29,2x20,3 cm, 284 colour illus.
312 pp., 29,2x20,3 cm, 284 colour illus.
Since the earliest myths of the sculptor Pygmalion bringing a statue to life through desire, artists have explored the boundaries between sculpture and the physical materiality of the body. This groundbreaking volume examines key sculptural works fro...
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50.00 GBP
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Adrian Villar Rojas
The Roof Garden Commission: The Theater of Disappearance
ISBN: PB: 9781588396211,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
September 2017
64 pp., 18,4x11,0 cm, 68 colour illus.
64 pp., 18,4x11,0 cm, 68 colour illus.
Known for his ephemeral, interconnected installations and monumental sculpture, Argentinian artist Adrian Villar Rojas (b. 1980) transformed The Met Roof into an immersive banquet scene for the 2017 Roof Garden Commission. This book retraces the arti...
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6.95 GBP
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Cubism
The Leonard A. Lauder Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780300208078,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
October 2014
448 pp., 30,5x25,4 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
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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45.00 GBP
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