How to Read European Decorative Arts
ISBN: PB: 9781588397515,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
March 2023
168 pp., 26,6x20,3 cm, 141 colour illus.
168 pp., 26,6x20,3 cm, 141 colour illus.
Illuminating three centuries of European artistry and ingenuity, this volume in The Met's acclaimed How to Read series provides a wide-ranging exploration of decorative arts from British writing tables to Russian snuffboxes.
Spanning three decades o...
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Hear Me Now
The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
ISBN: HB: 9781588397263,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
September 2022
192 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 154 colour illus.
192 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 154 colour illus.
Nineteenth-century stoneware by enslaved and free potters living in Edgefield, South Carolina, highlights the central role of Black artists in the region's long-standing pottery traditions.
Recentering the development of industrially scaled Southern...
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Inspiring Walt Disney
The Animation of French Decorative Arts
ISBN: HB: 9781588397416,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
November 2021
256 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 200 colour illus.
256 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 200 colour illus.
Pink castles, talking sofas, and a prince transformed into a teapot: what sounds like fantasies from Walt Disney's pioneering animations could first be found in the colorful salons of Rococo Paris. The films produced by Disney Animation Studios repre...
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Gifts from the Fire
American Ceramics, 1880-1950: From the Collection of Martin Eidelberg
ISBN: HB: 9781588397324,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
November 2021
256 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 273 colour illus.
256 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 273 colour illus.
Between the early 1880s and the early 1950s, pioneering American artists drew upon the rich traditions and recent innovations of European and Asian ceramics to develop new designs, decorations, and techniques. With splendid new photography, this book...
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Collecting Inspiration
Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co.
ISBN: HB: 9781588396907,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
July 2021
320 pp., 27,9x22,8 cm, 275 colour illus.
320 pp., 27,9x22,8 cm, 275 colour illus.
Edward C. Moore (1827-1891) was the creative leader who brought unparalleled originality and success to Tiffany & Co. during the late 19th century. A silversmith, designer, and prodigious collector, Moore sought out exceptional objects from around th...
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Last Knight
The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I
ISBN: HB: 9781588396747,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
October 2019
304 pp., 27,9x23,5 cm, 266 colour illus.
304 pp., 27,9x23,5 cm, 266 colour illus.
Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) crafted a public persona and personal mythology that earned him the romantic sobriquet the "Last Knight" and that perpetuates his legend to this day. In his lifelong quest to establish himself as Europe's n...
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Jewelry
The Body Transformed
ISBN: HB: 9781588396501,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
November 2018
272 pp., 25,4x22,9 cm, 300 colour illus.
272 pp., 25,4x22,9 cm, 300 colour illus.
As an art form, jewelry is defined primarily through its connection to and interaction with the body – extending it, amplifying it, accentuating it, distorting it, concealing it, or transforming it. But how is the meaning of jewelry bound to the body...
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Maiolica
Italian Renaissance Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: HB: 9781588395610,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
September 2016
392 pp., 30,5x21,6 cm, 365 colour illus.
392 pp., 30,5x21,6 cm, 365 colour illus.
The brightly colored tin-enameled earthenware called maiolica was among the major accomplishments of decorative arts in 16th-century Italy. This in-depth look at the history of maiolica, told through 140 exemplary pieces from the world-class collecti...
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European Clocks and Watches
In the Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: HB: 9781588395795,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
November 2015
256 pp., 30,5x21,6 cm, 200 colour illus.
256 pp., 30,5x21,6 cm, 200 colour illus.
Among the world's great technological and imaginative achievements is the invention and development of the timepiece. Examining for the first time the Metropolitan Museum's unparalleled collection of European clocks and watches created from the early...
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How to Read Chinese Ceramics
ISBN: PB: 9781588395719,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
September 2015
144 pp., 26,6x20,3 cm, 180 colour illus.
144 pp., 26,6x20,3 cm, 180 colour illus.
Chinese ceramics are among the most significant and widely collected decorative arts produced anywhere in the world, with a history that spans millennia. Despite the saturation of Chinese ceramics in global culture – in English, the word "china" has...
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