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Art =: Discovering Infinite Connections in Art History
"Big, bold and interesting."—The Art Newspaper
"Leaps around the globe and across 6,000 years of art history."—Artnet News An entirely new approach to exploring global art history, presented through the lens of one of the world's leading art museums Featuring more than 800 artworks from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this groundbreaking book - organized by thematic keywords rather than the usual chronological or geographical categories, and drawing upon analytics from The Met's online Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History - offers fresh, unconventional ways of engaging with visual culture. Beyond the wealth of illustration, more than 160 engaging curatorial essays place the works in wider contexts, while a foldout, detachable timeline offers further perspective.
"Leaps around the globe and across 6,000 years of art history."—Artnet News An entirely new approach to exploring global art history, presented through the lens of one of the world's leading art museums Featuring more than 800 artworks from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this groundbreaking book - organized by thematic keywords rather than the usual chronological or geographical categories, and drawing upon analytics from The Met's online Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History - offers fresh, unconventional ways of engaging with visual culture. Beyond the wealth of illustration, more than 160 engaging curatorial essays place the works in wider contexts, while a foldout, detachable timeline offers further perspective.
448 pages, Hardcover
Published June 24, 2020
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
1,316 books52 followersThe Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, (colloquially, the “Met”) is the largest art museum in the United States.
It was founded on April 13, 1870, "to be located in the City of New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and library of art, of encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts, and the application of arts to manufacture and practical life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and, to that end, of furnishing popular instruction."
It was founded on April 13, 1870, "to be located in the City of New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and library of art, of encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts, and the application of arts to manufacture and practical life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and, to that end, of furnishing popular instruction."
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February 6, 2025
I liked the concept of this book and it was pulled together by talented editors, laid out beautifully. My objection was with the binding. The size of the book combined with the obnoxious double cover made the book inconvenient to read as it took up SO MUCH SPACE. If a ebook is available, that would be wondeful. It looks beautiful on the coffee table, but can only be read on very large tables (like a desk or dining table) as it requires an unusal amount of surface area to open and read. No throwing this in your bag to read on the commute or airplabe. Otherwise, brilliant content.
December 10, 2023
Beautifully and logically composed
Easy to navigate, a great intro to art history
Easy to navigate, a great intro to art history
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