Gifts of Art: The Met’s 150th Anniversary

Gifts of Art: The Met’s 150th Anniversary
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Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages : 211
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ISBN-10 : 9781588397355
ISBN-13 : 1588397351
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Book Synopsis Gifts of Art: The Met’s 150th Anniversary by : Max Hollein

Download or read book Gifts of Art: The Met’s 150th Anniversary written by Max Hollein and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In honor of the institution’s 150th year, this publication celebrates the 203 collectors who committed more than 2,500 works of art to The Met for the sesquicentennial. These meaningful additions change the ways in which we think about the Museum’s holdings and deepen the stories The Met can tell about all the works in the collection. Highlights featured in this volume include an imposing stone head from an Egyptian sarcophagus; an opulent horse armor commissioned by King Philip IV of Spain; a Tibetan war mask; an early American daguerreotype; Sir Edward Burne-Jones’s enigmatic watercolor; an early twentieth-century Japanese bamboo shrine cabinet; poignant photographs made by Robert Frank for his iconic series The Americans; the Cuban American artist Carmen Herrera’s 1949 tondo Iberic; Steve Miller’s 1961 Gibson guitar; important works by Georg Baselitz; art from the Iranian Saqqakhana school; the vibrant bark painting of Aboriginal Australian artist Nonggirrnga Marawili; and recent creations by artists such as Cecily Brown, Peter Doig, Robert Gober, and Wangechi Mutu.


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