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Metropolitan Museum of Art publicationsIves, Colta Feller.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Museum 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 760.092 IVEEvans, Walker
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Princeton University Press, Princeton 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The female pharaoh Hatshepsut reigned for nearly twenty years during Egypt's early New Kingdom in the fifteenth century B.C. First acting as regent for her young nephew/stepson Thutmose III, she in time assumed the title of king and exercised the full powers of the throne as senior co-ruler. In accordance with Egyptian tradition, Hatshepsut was often depicted as a male king. After her death,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 SewKinchin, Juliet
Summary: Drawing on the wealth of automobile-related design, art and architecture in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Automania takes an in-depth look at an industrial object that changed the world. From its first appearance as a plaything for the rich in the 1890s to its establishment as a utilitarian necessity of modern life, the car has transformed the ways in which we live, work and enjoy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Museum of Modern Art 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704.9 KINPrather, Marla.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Gallery of Art 1994
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Summary: Addressing the maniacal, eccentric, and disorienting in artworks made between 1950 and 1980, Delirious situates a fascination with the absurd and irrational within the context of the violence and brutality witnessed during World War II as well as the rapid expansion of industrial capitalism in the 1950s. Skepticism of science and technology--along with fear of its capability to promote mass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 BAUDomínguez Ortiz, Antonio.
Summary: Substantive essays examine the world of seventeenth-century Spain and the path that Velazquez followed in his courtly and artistic career; with assessments of each of the pictures, comparative illustrations of all of the artist's major works and representative paintings by his contemporaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 702 VELHolcomb, Melanie.
Summary: Discusses the techniques, uses, and aesthetics of medieval drawings; and reproduces work from more than fifty manuscripts produced between the ninth and early fourteenth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 760 HolcombOrmond, Richard
Summary: Many of the sitters in this collection were John Singer Sargent's close friends. They are posed informally, sometimes in the act of painting or singing, and it is evident from the bold way they confront us that they are personalities of a creative stamp. Brilliant as these pictures are as works of art and penetrating studies of character, they are also records of relationships, allegiances,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The National Portrait Gallery 2015
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 702 SARGENT ORMPissarro, Joachim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Museum of Modern Art 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.4 PISSummary: "Afro-Atlantic Histories" brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels, frictions, and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DelMonico Books, ARTBOOK/D.A.P. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704.03 AFRAntonelli, Paola
Summary: Items: Is Fashion Modern? presents 111 items of clothing and accessories that have had a profound impact on the world in the 20th and 21st centuries. Arranged A-Z encyclopedia-style, it includes designs as iconic as Levi's 501 jeans, the pearl necklace and Yves Saint Laurent's Le Smoking, and as ancient and rich as the sari, the Breton shirt, the kippah and the keffiyeh. The catalog...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Museum of Modern Art 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391 ANTLanchner, Carolyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Museum of Modern Art 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.4 LANWinogrand, Garry
Summary: Presents a retrospective of work by twentieth-century American photographer Garry Winogrand, arranged thematically in nine categories, and includes an essay on the life and career of the artist, as well as a chronology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Museum of Modern Art 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 779 WINSummary: "Portraiture has managed to flourish in modern painting in spite of the popularization of photography, the decline of traditional patronage, and modernism's increasing emphasis on abstraction. However problematic modern styles have been for representational art, painters have continued to discover new possibilities in the imaging of the human face. This book explores the challenge of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Museum of Modern Art 1996
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.4 PICSummary: This text examines the collection of feminist art in the Museum of Modern Art. It features essays presenting a range of generational and cultural perspectives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Museum of Modern Art 2010
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.04 MODTemkin, Ann.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Museum of Modern Art 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 TEMVarnedoe, Kirk
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Museum of Modern Art 1998