The former director of the famed New York museum recounts his activities at the art world's pinnacle, from wooing important patrons to battling for acquisitions.
In his autobiography, American realist painter Andrew Wyeth presents 138 of his tempera, drybrush, and water color paintings. Each reproduction is accompanied by his personal thoughts about it.
In this introduction, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Thomas Harding provides 14 chapters on the history of Western Art, shows readers how to begin their own collections, and offers tips for visiting famous galleries all over the world.
As director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a decade, Thomas Hoving brought art to a new level of public awareness by pioneering such blockbuster shows as the King Tut exhibit. Early in his career, Hoving was introduced to the 'curator's game'. Each week, he and his colleagues met to examine details of larger museum masterpieces. Whoever ...
An illustrated expose of art forgery through the ages, which reveals the truth about a variety of scams and their victims, and describes cases when both the buyers and the experts were fooled.
Former Metropolitan Museum of Art director Hoving recounts Howard Carter's search for Tut's tomb, and the international confrontations that followed, as Carter kept other archeologists away from his find, Carter's partner died shortly after the discovery thereby starting rumors of a curse, and the Egyptian government fought to keep the treasure in ...
A stunning examination of the remarkable Wyeth family artistry, presenting the work of N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, and James Wyeth, whose paintings are now part of a major exhibition opening in Moscow and coming to the U.S. Profusely illustrated with color plates and rare family photographs.
The story behind one of the most famous paintings in American art. The stern, sober countenance of the elderly farmer. The quiet, loyal character of his prim wife. Few other paintings are so instantly recognizable as Grant Wood's masterpiece "American Gothic." Bestselling Chicago author Thomas Hoving brings to life Wood himself and illuminates, ...
A personal choice of the finest masterpieces in western art, by the man who revolutionized the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Included in his choice of 111 works are paintings by Rembrandt and Jackson Pollock, frescoes by Piero Della Francesca, mosaics, alterpieces and tapestries.
A fast-paced novel of the high-powered international art world whose plot revolves around the auction of a masterwork of the Spanish painter Diego Velasquez, a shocking nude portrait of the artist's mistress which some will stop at nothing to possess.
Both a biography and a critical study, this book presents the work of Dan Namingha, who is among the best known Native American artists. Pictured here are his dazzling paintings and sensuous bronze sculptures inspired by the cultural symbols and landscape of the desert Southwest. 120 illustrations, 80 in full color.
From the depths of the Great Depression in 1929, John D. Rockefeller Jr. envisioned an unprecedented, modern and luxurious building project. Given the theme "New Frontiers", nearly forty artists created everything from paintings and sculpture to fabrics and fountains. This is the first easy-to-navigate guide to the wonderful sculptures, murals, ...
In his autobiography, American realist painter Andrew Wyeth presents 138 of his tempera, drybrush, and water color paintings. Each reproduction is accompanied by his personal thoughts about it.
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