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This fully illustrated book highlights the extensive and diverse collections of New Jersey's largest museum.This fully illustrated book highlights the extensive and diverse collections of New Jersey's largest museum.Hide synopsis
Description:Fine. 1857595882 Text free of underlining, writing and...Fine. 1857595882 Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. Published in conjunction with the one-hundredth anniversary of the Newark Museum, this fully illustrated book highlights the extensive and diverse collections of New Jersey's largest museum. The Museum's distinguished art collections are international in scope and span six thousand years, from antiquity to the present day. The Museum boasts the most significant historical collection of Tibetan art in the Western hemisphere, including a Buddhist altar consecrated in 1990 by the Dalai Lama, as well as collections of Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indian and Southeast Asian art. The American art collection is one of the finest in the country and includes Colonial portraiture, a superb selection of Hudson River School landscape paintings, folk and outsider art, a significant holding of works by African-American artists and major works of modern and contemporary art in all media. The African art collection includes masks and other sculpture, ceramic vessels, dress and adornment, as well as photography, painting and video art. Collections of ceramics, glass, silver, jewelry, furniture and textiles comprise the extensive decorative arts collection. Ancient art is also well represented in the Museum with objects from Egypt, the Near East, Greece and Rome. In addition to its comprehensive art holdings, the Newark Museum also features an 83, 000-specimen natural science collection, the basis for its science exhibits, a planetarium, a mini zoo, a fire safety center, a 1784 stone schoolhouse and the popular 1885 Ballantine House, a restored National Historic Landmark. 168 pages. Your order on its way to you by the next business day!
Description:NF. Published in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the...NF. Published in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the museum. The catalogue centers on the art collections: the most significant historical collection of Tibetan art in the Western hemisphere, an excellent collection of Hudson River School art, major holdings by African-American artists, and much, much more. It also, however, includes information about its planetarium, mini zoo, fire safety center, stone schoolhouse from 1784, and the 1885 Ballantine House. An excellent and beautifully-presented volume. Black pictorial wraps with French flaps; 168 pp. with color and bw images throughout.
Description:New. No dust jacket as issued. Still in Plastic Wrap. Trade...New. No dust jacket as issued. Still in Plastic Wrap. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 168 p. Audience: General/trade. Newark Museum: Selected Works Edited by Beth Venn and the curators of the Newark Museum Published in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the Newark Museum, this fully illustrated book highlights the extensive and diverse collections of New Jersey's largest museum.
