What is art? This gift book from The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers nearly 200 illustrated answers to that question, all presented in simple, concise...
PublishedNew York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press [distributor], 2006
Tapestries were used by Renaissance rulers to broadcast their wealth and might. This volume examines the development of tapestry production during the...
This monograph on designer Elsa Schiaparelli chronicles the work of one of history's most influential and eccentric couturiers. Endowed with a strikingly...
Seven-year-old Stevie is lost in the galleries! She needs to locate a series of artworks to find her way out and back to her family. Can you help her?...
Have you ever wondered exactly what your favourite artists were looking at to make them draw, sculpt, or paint the way they did? In this charming illustrated...
PublishedNew York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven;; London: Yale University Press, 2005
Max Ernst (18911976) was a pivotal figure in the history of twentieth-century art. A leader of the Dada movement in Germany, he later joined the circle...
PublishedNew Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2001
Seventeenth-century Delft has traditionally been viewed as a quaint town whose artists painted scenes of domestic life. This important book revises that...
PublishedNew Haven, [Conn.]; London: Yale University Press, 2009
With more than 75 paintings, drawings, watercolours, and gouaches in this volume, some rarely seen treasures from private collections, all painted between...