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Rogues' Gallery: The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money That Made the Metropolitan Museum
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Michael Gross
Filled with the juicy details of the lives of the powerful players who made the Metropolitan Museum of Art what it is today, Gross delivers the unauthorized history of America's wealthiest and arguably the world's greatest art museum.
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From the mixed-up files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler
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E. L. Konigsburg
This book, winner of the Newbery Medal, tells the story of how Claudia and Jamie spend a week living in New York's huge Metropolitan Museum of Art. E.L.Konigsburg wrote "Jennifer?", "Hecate", "Macbeth and Me" and "Father's Arcane Daughter".
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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Elaine Koningsburg, E L Konigsburg, Greynolds
Having runaway with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
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The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion
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Harold Koda
"Model as Muse" explores fashion's reciprocal relationship to iconic beauties that represent the evolution and changing face of the feminine ideal. Featuring a brief historical overview of the phenomenon of the supermodel, the book begins in the early twentieth century and continues to the present day. Dorian Leigh and Lisa Fonssagrives in the ...
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Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Danny Danziger
A unique oral portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, these 52 interviews with everyone from the director to cleaners to philanthropists and millionaires offer a glimpse behind the scenes of one of the greatest museums in the world.
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A Touch of Minx
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Suzanne Enoch
Former thief Samantha Jellico and her sexy billionaire boyfriend, Richard Addison (from "Billionaires Prefer Blondes"), are at it again and face the biggest hurtle in their relationship, as they track down some priceless artifacts stolen from a museum. Original.
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Can You Find It Outside?
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Jessica Schulte
"I spy great art" Here's a seek-and-find book that invites youngsters to look at art in a special way - very closely! For each of the 13 paintings reproduced in full colour here, a simple rhyme asks young readers to search for details. All the artworks deal with subjects out of doors. With major works from the collections of The Metropolitan ...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art guide
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N.Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, Philippe De Montebello, Kathleen Howard
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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Lisa Mintz Messinger
Georgia O'Keeffe (1881-1986) was a major figure in American art for seven decades. Throughout that long and prolific career, she remained true to her unique artistic vision, creating a highly individual style that synthesized the formal language of modern European abstraction and the subjects of traditional American pictorialism. This illuminating ...
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Can You Find It Inside?
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Jessica Schulte
"I spy great art" Here's a seek-and-find book that invites youngsters to look at art in a special way - very closely! For each of the 13 paintings reproduced in full colour here, a simple rhyme asks young readers to search for details. All the artworks deal with indoor themes. With major works from the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art ...
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American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent
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Stephanie L Herdrich
The expatriate painter John Singer Sargent (1865-1925) and his heirs enjoyed a cordial relationship with The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In consequence, the museum has an unparalleled collection of Sargent's works, in particular his drawings and watercolours, which are all presented in this volume.
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From Nineveh to New York: The Strange Story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum & the Hidden Masterpiece at Canford School
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Professor John Malcolm Russell, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Judith McKenzie
The story of Sir Austen Henry Layard's rediscovery of ancient Assyria and its fabled capital, Nineveh, is one of the great tales of the 19th century. No less remarkable is the story of the collection, dispersal and then re-acquisition in the 20th century of the world's greatest Assyrian collection ever to be in private hands. In this history of ...
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Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Calvin Tompkins
Beautifully written and newly revised to include the museum's most controversial era, this sparkling social history reveals the ideas and financial power behind the Metropolitan's dramatic 12-year history. Photos.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Howard Hibbard
The extraordinary riches, which place the museum among the ranks of the world's greatest, unfold in a panorama of dazzling color and b&w photographs. Incl udes works from Renaissance artists, the Impressionists, Byzantine artists and others.
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Merchants and masterpieces : the story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Calvin Tomkins
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Book of Artrageous Projects
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The Editors of Klutz (Editor)
In 1995 we approached the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City with a proposal: Let us squeeze your priceless, 3-million-piece art collection between the covers of a Klutz book. And then we'll unhook all the Please Stand Back chains and open up all your display cases. Once the trustees got back into their chairs, it turned out to be a ...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Book of Masks
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Dorling Kindersley Publishing, DK Publishing
Here are some of the most spectacular masks from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Each mask pops out of the book and can be worn and reinserted onto the page for storage. Accompanying each mask is rich informative text placing these works of art into their larger historical and cultural contexts. Full color.
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Inside the Museum: A Children's Guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Joy Richardson
An entertaining guide and activity book that encourages children to interact with the works of art and objects from every area of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Throughout there are full-color reproductions of works of art, photos of the museum staff performing their various jobs, and illustrated instructions for activities.
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Artful Dog: Canines from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (Creator)
Loyal dogs have always been by the side of great artists. In this celebration they are front and center. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which brought us "Catnip," now presents masterpieces of dog-centric art. Each is accompanied by prose or poetry from some of the world s great writers, humorists, and thinkers, including Edith Wharton, Groucho ...
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English Embroidery from the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1580-1700: Twixt Art and Nature
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Andrew Morrall (Editor), Melinda Watt (Editor), Cristina Balloffet Carr
This book centres around the Metropolitan Museum of Art's preeminent collection of embroidered objects from England's late Tudor and Stuart eras. These seventeenth-century embroideries, some eighty works in all, include samplers, gloves, headgear, purses, raised work panels, boxes and mirrors, portrait miniatures, lavishly embroidered Bibles, and ...
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Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Gary Tinterow (Introduction by), Kathryn Calley Galitz (Text by), Asher Ethan Miller (Text by)
This beautiful volume features a compendium of the Metropolitan Museum's finest European paintings dating from 1800 to 1920. The focus is on French art of this period, of which the Museum possesses the most comprehensive collection outside of France; however, extraordinary pictures by artists of other nationalities are also included. Thanks to a ...
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Talking to the Sun
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Kenneth Koch (Selected by), Kate Farrell (Introduction by)
Published in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The effort to match classic and little-known poems with works of art from the various collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art has resulted in a spectacular book".--Kirkus Reviews.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide
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Philippe de Montebello, Metropolitan Museum Of Art
This newly revised guide to the vast collections and buildings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including the Cloisters, decribes nearly 900 works of art from the museum's 18 curatorial departments, selected by its director Philippe de Montebello, ranging from the art of the ancient world to that of the present day. 869 illustrations, 829 in ...
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The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789-1815
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Charles Otto Zieseniss
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Metropolitan Cats
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John Philip O'Neill, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dr. Alvin Grossman (Illustrator)
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