Housing one of the finest and most comprehensive collections in the world, the metropolitan museum of art is a living encyclopedia of. If you cant devote the next 30 years of your life to running the metropolitan museum of art, but you do have a hunger to learn more about artists and wo. From january 2009 montebello took up a post as the first fiske kimball. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. We got an early copy of the longtime met czars new book, rendezvous with. In your new book rendezvous with art, you mostly focus on ancient. But whether they were in the louvre or the prado, the mauritshuis of the palazzo pitti, they reveal the pleasures of truly looking.
The metropolitan museum of art guide metropolitan museum of art new york, n. He was graduated magna cum laude from harvard college in 1958 with a b. Metpublications is a portal to the mets comprehensive book and online publishing program with close to 700 titles published from 1964 to the present. Haute couture metpublications the metropolitan museum of art. He is now fiske kimball professor at new york universitys institute of fine arts and an honorary trustee of the prado museum. The metropolitan museum of art guide metropolitan museum. Essentially the contents consist of a series of brief articles around 510 pages by various departmental curators e. Housing one of the finest and most comprehensive collections in the world, the metropolitan museum of art is a living encyclopedia of art. Unit 2702, nuo centre 2a jiangtai road, chaoyang district beijing 16, p. Moore who had served as a trustee since 1995 and as chairman since 2004. When he retired in 2008 he was the longestserving director in the institutions history, and also the longestserving director of any major art museum. The book hints at the history of the museum as a societal institution and yields insights into the benefits and shortcomings of seeing art in a museum setting, where our access to objects often entails severing them from their original content. The extraordinary chronological range of the collections is matched by their geographical scope. From january 2009 montebello took up a post as the first fiske kimball professor in the history and culture.
Masterpieces of the metropolitan museum of art book. On his retirement, he was both the longestserving director in the institutions history, and the third longestserving director of any major art museum in the world first is irina antonova, who was the director of the pushkin. Its an intimate look into the pleasures and pitfalls of art. Separate chapters examine tailoring techniques and finishes, weaving, draping, and the intricate decoration produced by embroiderers, feathermakers, and other craftspeople on whom couturiers rely for the execution of their ideas. He served from 1977 to 2008 as the director of the metropolitan museum of art in new york. Buy a cheap copy of masterpieces of the metropolitan museum. Works from every land and every people have their place here. Isbn 9783797657 9783797657 hardcover, te neues pub group, 1986. This is a revised edition of the guide to the metropolitan museum of art, new york.
He is interviewed by chief art critic for the new york times. Haute couture metpublications the metropolitan museum. The former met director has big plans for the hispanic society. Here we can see a statue from the very beginnings of civilization and moments later stand before a painting completed only last year. Their book, rendezvous with art, is structured around the conversations they had in churches, museums, and art galleries around the world.
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