N.Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York

Since The Metropolitan Museum of Art's founding in New York City nearly 150 years ago, generations of artists have found boundless inspiration in its galleries. "The Artist Project" celebrates the role that great art plays in spurring creativity in the twenty-first century. Interviews with 120 international contemporary artists discussing works from The Met's collection that spark their imagination offer new insights into art, museums, and the creative...

This handsomely illustrated volume is aimed at giving a broad audience deeper insight into the extensive collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The museum is famed for its Greek vases, of which 35 notable examples are detailed in this book. They reveal the variety and vitality of the refined forms and masterfully rendered scenes that characterize these works. And they demonstrate the interrelation of function, shape, technique, and subject...

Each letter of the alphabet is illustrated by a word and a related detail from a work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Small reproductions of each entire work with descriptive texts are included on the last pages of the book.

One of three chronologically arranged catalogues that document the Metropolitan Museum's outstanding collection of American paintings.