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Featuring 45 of the finest surviving tapestries from more than 15 countries, this lavishly illustrated volume is the first comprehensive survey of 17th-century European tapestry available in English.

These handsome volumes celebrate the Metropolitan Museum’s extraordinary collection of Dutch paintings from 1600–1800, including works by Rembrandt, Hals, Vermeer, and more.

This beautifully illustrated book presents forty-five tapestries of the period 1460–1560, when courts and churches lavished vast sums on costly weavings in silk and gold thread designed by the leading artists of the day. The contributors to the volume analyze the tapestries, examine their stylistic and technical development, and discuss the contribution of the medium to art, liturgy, and pro...

This beautifully illustrated and first in-depth examination of Poussin’s landscapes explores the artist’s influences, significance, and relationships with his patrons.

Presenting 150 luxury objects fashioned from semiprecious stones, this beautiful book provides a wide-ranging history of pietre dure, a virtuoso art of hardstone inlay that flourished in much of Europe during the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

This lively and accessible volume traces the formation of the Metropolitan Museum’s collection of Dutch paintings from its beginnings in 1871 to the present day.

With works by Picasso, Delacroix, Corot, Courbet, Manet, Monet, Cézanne, and many others, this beautiful volume documents the Metropolitan Museum’s finest European paintings from the period 1800–1920.

This focused book includes an informative essay by Gioacchino Barbera and an examination of seven important works by Antonello da Messina.

In this fascinating book, the Florentine-trained painter-architect Fra Carnevale—until now a mysterious, quasi-legendary figure—emerges as a well-defined and pivotal artist at the court of Urbino. With hundreds of exquisite illustrations, many of little-known works, the book transforms our knowledge of an important chapter in the history of Renaissance art.

Featuring new technical findings and preparatory drawings, this intriguing book examines Raphael’s last major altarpiece and explores its fascinating history and provenance.

This absorbing book features 81 magnificent sculpted heads that provide a sweeping view of the Middle Ages, from the waning days of the Roman Empire to the dawn of the Renaissance.

This book takes a comprehensive look at Vincent van Gogh’s beautiful and varied drawings, showcasing about 120 of his works in charcoal, chalk, ink, graphite, and watercolor. The authors discuss the impact of Van Gogh’s drawing practice on his development as a painter and examine his contributions to the history of drawing.

This remarkable book discusses portraits by Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, George Grosz, and others created during the Weimar Republic––a time of social and political turmoil but also of innovative accomplishment in the arts.

The horse was an integral part of Renaissance culture, and in warfare horses played a pivotal role. Not uncommonly, a horse’s armor was as elaborate and expensive as that of its rider. This book presents splendid examples of European horse armor from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and closely examines their style, construction, and decoration.

A presentation of 103 superb pieces of European furniture from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum that date from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century.

This beautifully illustrated volume examines the pioneering and influential Parisian dealer’s career as well as his relationships with individual collectors and artists, including Cézanne, Gauguin, Picasso, and Matisse.

An engaging account of the circumstances that led to Picasso’s first portrait of Stein, this book also examines the influence the two had on one another’s creative output and careers.

Renowned for their superb quality and variety, Rubens’s drawings are the focus of this exquisite book. More than 100 drawings are featured and examined, accompanied by insightful essays that discuss the importance of draftsmanship in Rubens’s career.

Max Ernst, a pivotal figure in the history of twentieth-century art, was an important innovator in the Dada and Surrealist movements. This book accompanies the first retrospective of Ernst’s work held in America in thirty years and takes a look at the life of the artist and his pioneering accomplishments in painting, sculpture, collage, and in particular his unique collage novels.

This beautiful book presents more than seventy paintings, drawings, and manuscript illuminations from all periods in the career of Fra Angelico, one of Renaissance Florence’s premier painters. Selected works by his assistants and followers are also included, along with a historically reliable biography of the "angelic friar" whose innovative works retain their inspirational power today.

Famous for their beauty and technical virtuosity, Leonardo’s drawings were avidly sought by collectors even during his own lifetime. This handsome book offers a portrait of the artist as a draftsman, surveying the wide variety of his drawing types as well as examining selected works by other artists critical to Leonardo’s development.

As King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV initiated a spectacular century of artistic achievement in his capital at Prague. This magnificent book celebrates the remarkable flowering of art during the reigns of Charles and his sons, focusing on more than 160 panel paintings, works in gold, sculpture, stained glass, and illuminated manuscripts.

 

 

Devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, the Cloisters is a popular branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This splendid new guide recounts the Cloister’s history, offers a lively discussion of the treasures within, and is replete with more than 175 color illustrations of its architecture, gardens, and masterworks.

 

In this book leading scholars of Netherlandish art draw on growing interdisciplinary activity and burgeoning scholarship in their field to illuminate the circumstances underlying the creation of early Netherlandish paintings. They consider socioeconomic factors, new information from technical investigation of works of art, the relationship between text and art, and they point the way for future in...

More than just a quaint town whose artists painted quiet scenes of domestic life, seventeenth-century Delft was a vibrant city producing a wide range of artworks as well as sophisticated paintings. This comprehensive volume traces the history and culture of Delft from the 1200s to Vermeer’s death in 1675, reproducing in full color some 90 paintings, 40 drawings, and a selection of spectacula...

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525/30-1569) was a remarkable draftsman and designer of prints as well as a great painter. This handsome book discusses Bruegel’s life, his contributions as a draftsman and designer of prints, his iconography and social and political context, and the posthumous survival of his art. Numerous individual drawings and prints are analyzed and illustrated.

The sensuous odalisques and dramatic historical scenes of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) are among the masterpieces of nineteenth-century French painting. But Ingres’s greatest achievement remains the brilliant depictions of his contemporaries created over seven decades. Termed by a critic in 1855 “the most faithful image of our epoch,” such works—with their psyc...

Many nineteenth-century French artists—among them Delacroix, Courbet, Degas, and, especially, Manet—came to appreciate and even emulate Spanish painting of the Golden Age. This beautiful book charts the development of this cultural influence and its impact on the history of art. The volume also includes works by such American artists as Whistler, Cassatt, and Sargent, who found inspira...

This gorgeous book—the first to focus on Manet’s maritime paintings—discusses how Manet overturned the established academic conventions of marine painting in France and inspired many younger artists, including Monet, Morisot, Whistler, and Renoir.

This stunning book celebrates more than a decade of collecting by the Metropolitan Museum’s Department of Arms and Armor following the reinstallation of its permanent galleries. The volume features the armor and weapons of two French kings, a hero of the American Revolution, the Tokugawa shoguns of Japan, and much more.

This book presents one of the finest private collections of Italian manuscripts assembled after the First World War. Included are works by the major schools of illumination in southern Italy, Umbria, Tuscany, Emilia, Lombardy, and the Veneto. 

With a scope of more than two centuries (ca. 1500-1740), this groundbreaking work presents the major Lombard painters and draftsmen who effected the transition in northern Italy from a strongly classical style to a naturalism based on direct observation..

Orazio Gentileschi (1563–1639) was a talented follower of Caravaggio and a painter of international renown. His daughter Artemisia (1593–1652/3) was the first Italian woman artist praised for her art not only by her contemporaries but by later generations as well. This beautiful book presents the work of these two painters, exploring the artistic development of each, comparing their ac...

This unicorn tapestries are one of the most popular attractions at The Cloisters, the medieval branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Written by a world authority on medieval textiles, this beautifully illustrated book traces the origins of the seven enigmatic tapestries as well as the possible interpretations of their symbolism and presents details of each imaginatively woven scene.

This lavish catalogue presents 124 European paintings, pastels, and drawings from the late fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century that constitute the renowned Wrightsman Collection. These notable works, collected by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, both for themselves and for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, include masterpieces by Vermeer, El Greco, Rubens, the Tiepolos, and Ingres.

In this classic book, readers can experience a grand tour through the history of interiors and interior design by viewing thirty-four spectacular period rooms in the Metropolitan Museum. From an ancient Roman bedroom excavated near Pompeii to a Louis XVI grand salon from eighteenth-century Paris to the Frank Lloyd Wright Room in the American Wing, these popular galleries can now be viewed at al...

The legendary Winthrop Collection of French, British, and American art, which includes masterpieces by Delacroix, Ingres, David, the pre-Raphaelites, Homer, Sargent, and Whistler, was bequeathed in 1943 to Harvard University. This beautiful catalogue presents more than 200 works from the collection, along with discussions about them by leading authorities.

This first comprehensive survey of Renaissance artworks made to celebrate love and marriage features nuptial portraits, birth trays, erotic prints and drawings, and paintings by artists including Titian and Lotto.

This beautifully illustrated book explains the particular qualities that make the great Sienese painter Duccio such an essential artist and examines the connection between Duccio and his contemporary Giotto

Some 40 illuminations from choral manuscripts offer a look at life and religion in Italy at the dawn of the Renaissance.

A handsome catalogue featuring about 120 drawings from the late 15th to the early 20th century by artists including Raphael, Chardin, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Cézanne, and Renoir.

Featuring 25 works by this contemporary artist, this book demonstrates how Stella’s formal concerns have evolved from paintings to wall reliefs to freestanding sculptures and architecture.

A fascinating account of the history of Central Park––from William Cullen Bryant’s 1844 call for “a pleasure ground of shade and recreation” to the completion of construction in 1870.

This landmark book looks at Tiffany’s extraordinary eight-level country estate in Oyster Bay, Long Island––from its interior and exterior design, its gardens, outbuildings, and his life there.

A detailed and comprehensive look at the Metropolitan Museum’s collection of early colonial furniture—from chairs to tables, boxes, various types of chests and cupboards, dressing tables, and desks.

This handsome book presents an exciting selection of paintings, sculptures, and drawings from the Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman collection, which was recently given to the Metropolitan Museum.  Works by de Kooning, Pollock, Rothko, David Smith, and other major Abstract Expressionists, as well as earlier European modernists are featured.

This beautiful book presents silver objects, textiles, and other masterpieces of colonial Andean culture that evolved from the convergence of native tradition with Spanish influence.

This remarkable book documents Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s long-awaited Gates installation in Central Park. It includes an illustrated introduction that surveys the artists’ many innovative public projects, reproductions of their preparatory work for the Gates, and four unpublished interviews.

This book is the first to examine the life and work of John Townsend, one of the most revered cabinetmakers of Colonial America. New color photographs of all thirty-five documented Townsend pieces highlight his craftsmanship and distinctive personal style. Also featured are pieces by other members of his family and by his contemporary John Goddard, along with extensive archival materials.

A leading American Impressionist artist, Childe Hassam created many distinctive and enchanting paintings and prints. This handsome book takes a fresh look at Hassam’s life and his responses to the vibrant era in which he lived.

This handsome book focuses on the work of African-American artists during the Depression and the war years, when government-sponsored programs led to a resurgence in artistic production throughout the United States. Included are essays on the work in its cultural context and on printmaking techniques.

The most comprehensive book on Gilbert Stuart to date, this handsome volume focuses on the paintings and career of the most successful portraitist of America’s early national period, including Stuart’s famous images of George Washington.

The papers presented in this volume examine current thematic interests and scholarly approaches to American sculpture, each taking as its starting point a sculpture or group of sculptures from the renowned collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Since acquiring its first American drawings in 1880, The Metropolitan Museum of Art has amassed a spectacular collection of more than 1,400 works in watercolor, pastel, ink, graphite, chalk, and charcoal. This catalogue encompasses the work of John Singleton Copley, Thomas Cole, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and other artists born before 1835, reproducing 106 of the choicest drawings and watercol...

This attractive volume displays and discusses 200 works from Ralph T. Coe’s renowned collection of American Indian art. Presenting a wide range of works—from prehistoric stone objects to masks, canoe models, dolls, and baskets to contemporary works—it also includes Coe’s personal anecdotes about his collecting and essays by other authorities in the field.

This lovely book celebrates the unparalleled collection of works by John Singer Sargent at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The volume describes The Metropolitan’s acquisition of Sargent’s works, including the particularly fine collection of his drawings and watercolors, and organizes his work into four sections: childhood and adolescence, student years in Paris and early career, profes...

This handsome and useful volume provides a tour of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s renowned American Wing, where visitors encounter an unsurpassed collection of American paintings, decorative arts, richly furnished period rooms, and stunning architectural displays. From colonial portraits to the living room of a Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie-style house, the book displays a magnificent record ...

This book, the first of a two-volume set documenting the comprehensive collection of American sculpture at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, focuses on late nineteenth-century works. The book includes sculpture by such masters as Hiram Powers, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and Frederick W. MacMonnies, and it offers premier examples of ideal nudes, expressive genre statuettes, studies for monumenta...

This is the second volume of a two-volume set that records the distinguished collection of late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century American sculpture at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The book provides an up-to-date biography of each of the seventy sculptors represented as well as a full catalogue entry for each of nearly two hundred works.

Forty compelling sculptures made during the years between 300 B.C.E. and 400 C.E. in three major stylistic areas of West Mexico are the focus of this fascinating book, which discusses the works and explores their connections and distinctions.

Featuring 75 paintings, drawings, and watercolors, this beautiful book explores Bonnard’s late interior and still-life imagery from the period 1923–1947, considered among his finest work.

This beautiful volume features 54 masterwork paintings, watercolors, and drawings by such luminaries as Manet, Degas, Morisot, Renoir, Monet, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Matisse.

This book recounts the engaging story of a French-Irish immigrant who became the greatest American sculptor of his day and examines his role in the history of late19th-century American sculpture and the Aesthetic Movement.

This important book is the first to focus on the artistry and significance of the lustrous bronze, copper, silver, and gold statuary crafted by the ancient Egyptians as offerings to their gods and for use in temples and shrines.

This volume––which documents 26 excavated stone-built tombs of the ancient Egyptian Twelfth Dynasty––features remains of reliefs and inscriptions that decorated the walls and demonstrates the astonishing variety of Middle Kingdom funeral architecture. 

The nearly twenty-year reign of Egypt’s female pharaoh Hatshepsut was a period of immense artistic creativity. This handsome book is the first to explore in detail Hatshepsut’s rise to power in the fifteenth century B.C., the nature of her kingship, the innovative art and architecture of her time, and the mysterious obliteration of her name from historical accounts.

 

This richly illustrated book of vintage photographs commemorates the discovery and exploration of the tomb of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun (Dynasty 18, ruled ca. 1336–1327 B.C.). 

In this collection of essays, 20 international scholars analyze finds from recent archaeological excavations in areas ranging from the Caucasus to China and offer new insights into the material culture of the ancient Eurasian steppe nomads.

Diseases and injuries were major concerns for ancient Egyptians. This book, featuring some sixty-four objects from the Metropolitan Museum, discusses how both practical and magical medicine informed Egyptian art and for the first time reproduces and translates treatments described in the spectacular Edwin Smith Papyrus.

This remarkable volume celebrates nearly 500 works from the Metropolitan Museum’s unparalleled collection of Greek and Roman art.

Using art historical detective work, archival documents, and scientific data, this volume identifies the provenance of an important group of ceramics and places them in a clear historical context for the first time.

In essays that will enrich the understanding of the general and scholarly audience alike, international experts examine the history of the Old Kingdom, the architecture of royal pyramid complexes and nonroyal tombs, statuary, reliefs, minor arts, and the history of excavations of Old Kingdom monuments. They also focus sharply on the individual works in the exhibition in more than two hundred en...

This handsome book highlights an important period in art history: a time marked by the appearance of the city states of the Sumerians, the citadel of Troy, the royal tombs at Ur, and the monumental cities at Mohenjo-daro and Harappa. Presenting more than 500 works of art, many never reproduced before, the volume examines the cultural achievements of these first urban societies.

This CD-ROM presents 424 terracottas from the Cesnola Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and includes catalogue entries, commentaries, a glossary, chronology, and maps. Inexpensive, portable, and user-friendly, it provides an invaluable tool for students and archaeologists.

Sweeping across Asia in the thirteenth century, nomadic Mongols led by Genghis Khan created the largest empire the world has ever known. During the century they ruled Iran as the Ilkhanid dynasty (1256-1353), a brilliant cultural flowering took place encompassing many branches of the arts. This splendid volume focuses on that culture, presenting in full color some two hundred extraordinary works&#...

This book explores and documents the 15th-century BC tomb of three foreign wives of Tuthmosis III, discovered and robbed by villagers near Luxor in 1916. Incorporating the findings of field work conducted at the site by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the book discusses the lives of the foreign wives and the objects verified to have come from their tomb.

This volume discusses the extraordinary art created in the second millennium B.C. for royal palaces, temples, and tombs from Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia to Cyprus, Egypt, and the Aegean.

Studying illustrations from nearly 50 rarely seen manuscripts dating from the 9th to the early 14th century, this volume is the first to examine in depth the achievements of medieval draftsmen.

An in-depth look at one of the most lavishly illustrated codices of the Middle Ages and the only manuscript executed in its entirety by the Limbourg brothers.

Featuring designers including John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Jean Paul Gaultier, and many more, this innovative book examines how the style of superheroes’ dress has influenced street wear and high fashion.

Featuring over 100 full color photographs of clothing from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum as well as rare archival photographs, this handsome book is the first to explore the radical modernity of French couturier Paul Poiret, who revolutionized fashion for women.

This splendid book celebrates the legacy of Gabrielle (“Coco”) Chanel, one of the twentieth century’s great icons of fashion. Beautifully illustrated with more than 150 new photographs of costumes, the book examines the history and influence of the Chanel style from its beginnings through its reinvention for today’s world under the masterful leadership of Karl Lagerfeld.

During the reigns of Louis XV and XVI, fashion and furniture in France were not designed simply to be beautiful—they were also intended to arouse, attract, and seduce. This alluring book considers the interplay of French clothing and interior design in the eighteenth century and features full-color photographs from the acclaimed Metropolitan Museum exhibition.

 

This lively book examines aspects of English culture, such as class, monarchy, the English garden, and the English gentleman, through the lens of fashion. Costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries are presented alongside those of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in a series of compelling and provocative photographs.   

This stunning volume is a historical survey exemplifying the ways that the Classical tradition of dress has influenced the worlds of art and fashion through the ages. Lavishly illustrated, it features not only paintings, sculpture, and decorative objects from Greek and Roman times through subsequent periods but also garments and accessories designed over the past 200 years.

Over time and across cultures, shifting concepts of beauty have given rise to extraordinary fashions that constrict, pad, minimize, or exaggerate various zones of the body. This stunning book displays and discusses an array of extreme fashion practices, from the bound feet and caged nails of aristocratic Manchu women to the extended necks of the Masai to the tea-tray supporting bustle of an 1880s ...

An extensive exploration of fashion’s ongoing obsession with animalism, this glamorous book examines the decorative possibilities of pelts and plumes in the work of designers including Roberto Cavalli, John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, and Yohji Yamamoto.

This engaging book examines the influence of celebrated models––including Dovima, Twiggy, Lauren Hutton, Cindy Crawford, and Kate Moss––who have epitomized the look of fashion in the 20th and early 21st centuries.

This book presents a selection of more than 100 magnificent cameos carved from precious and semiprecious stones and traces their history from ancient times.

Throughout history, peoples everywhere have sought the intervention of divine powers to understand their fate. This book—and the exhibition on which it is based—presents African artifacts created to communicate with ancestors, spirits, and gods in order to obtain insight into human quandaries.

Pondering questions about the origins of the world, many African peoples expressed their beliefs through oral narratives, poetry, and art. The Bamana of Mali, for example, attributed the invention of agriculture to a mythical hero called Ci Wara, whom they represented in elegant wooden headdresses as a roan antelope. This stimulating volume examines the Ci Wara headdress as an...

This handsome book examines the theme of idealized pairings in African sculpture from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries, presenting wood, bronze, terracotta, and beadwork creations by artists from thirty sub-Saharan African cultures.

Featuring lesson plans, posters, a CD-ROM, a copy of Art of the Classical World in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and more, this invaluable resource kit for K–12 teachers examines the rich cultural legacy of Roman art.

Featuring background information, lesson plans, class activities, a glossary, and much more, this educator’s resource kit presents the rich and diverse artistic heritage of sub-Saharan Africa. 

This packet of resources for teachers covers more than 1200 years of medieval art from western Europe and Byzantium. Drawing on objects in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the box includes lesson plans, forty slides, two posters, a timeline, and a CD-ROM providing strategies for teaching the art of the Middle Age in the classroom.

Designed for classroom use, this boxed set contains posters, CD-ROM, slides, timeline, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century writings, activities, and lesson plans to introduce students to the richness and diversity of Renaissance art. These materials can be adapted to various curricula or used for independent study. Students will learn about Renaissance interests, great cities and powerful figures of ...

Designed for creative use in the classroom, this dramatically boxed resource brings together representative masterworks of twentieth-century art from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and wide-ranging ideas for their presentation to students. Included are a looseleaf binder in which thirty-one paintings are reproduced in full color along with notes about the work and strategies for ...

The lesson plans, slides, posters, CD-ROM texts, and other materials that fill this tote box provide an array of tools and approaches for teaching Greek art. Teachers will find many creative uses for such resources as a map of the ancient Greek world, a brief history of Athens from the sixth to fourth century B.C., a survey of key aspects of ancient Greek life, suggested activities, a bibliography...

This boxed resource introduces works of art from the superb South and Southeast Asian and Islamic collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, representing the early civilization that arose on the subcontinent of Southeast Asia and later spread northward to the Himalayan region and eastward to Southeast Asia. The package includes a summary of the region’s history, religions, and styles of ...

This boxed set introduces students to significant ideas about nature and Chinese culture that can be discovered in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Chinese Garden Court. A CD-ROM features a video tour of the garden court.

This resource features twenty works by African-American artists, all represented in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Included are paintings, drawings, photographs, sculpture, and multimedia works as well as poems by African-American writers.

Devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, the Cloisters is a popular branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This splendid new guide recounts the Cloister’s history, offers a lively discussion of the treasures within, and is replete with more than 175 color illustrations of its architecture, gardens, and masterworks.

 

This book explores Byzantium’s magnificent artistic legacy, focusing on the critical political, economic, religious, and cultural issues that helped shape the last centuries of the empire.

A sequel to the landmark catalogue The Glory of Byzantium, this spectacular book—the first to focus exclusively on the last golden age of the Byzantine empire—presents magnificent secular and religious works in all media.

This comprehensive catalogue is the visual and textual record of the landmark exhibition.

Presenting more than 120 photographs printed from paper negatives––many previously unpublished––this beautiful book examines the invention and history of the calotype in England and features an extensive biographical dictionary of British calotypists. 

An engaging account of the circumstances that led to Picasso’s first portrait of Stein, this book also examines the influence the two had on one another’s creative output and careers.

This beautifully illustrated volume examines the pioneering and influential Parisian dealer’s career as well as his relationships with individual collectors and artists, including Cézanne, Gauguin, Picasso, and Matisse.

As King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV initiated a spectacular century of artistic achievement in his capital at Prague. This magnificent book celebrates the remarkable flowering of art during the reigns of Charles and his sons, focusing on more than 160 panel paintings, works in gold, sculpture, stained glass, and illuminated manuscripts.

 

 

This highly anticipated exploration of the career of British photographic pioneer Roger Fenton discusses Fenton’s work during the “golden age” of the radically new medium and presents 90 of his finest photographs.

This comprehensive catalogue on CD-ROM discusses numerous aspects of the daguerreotype in France during its heyday in the mid-19th century. Included are 175 entries on individual daguerreotype images, all illustrated in full color, an anthology of historical documents, and a computer animation showing how a daguerreotype is made.

This beautiful new edition of Walker Evans’s famous photographic study of New York subway passengers made with a hidden camera features a new foreword and afterword, along with exquisitely reproduced images. Its publication marks the centenary year of the NYC subway.

This unprecedented overview of the Pictures Generation––the most significant and influential group of artists of the last 40 years––features works by Richard Prince, David Salle, Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo, and others, who explore ways in which images influence how we perceive the world and ourselves.

This generously illustrated guide to the Metropolitan Museum’s unparalleled collection of Oceanic art features some 200 masterworks from New Guinea, Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and Island Southeast Asia.

This book describes the extraordinary art of the Marquesas Islands in the South Pacific, which were made famous by novelist Herman Melville and painter Paul Gauguin. Featuring outstanding examples of the islands’ indigenous sculpture and decorative art, the book explores how art in the Marquesas encompassed and enhanced virtually every aspect of secular and religious life.

This multi-disciplinary volume analyzes some 130 masterpieces of central African reliquary sculpture, illuminating the purpose and significance of these works of art and the complex aesthetic and spiritual dimensions of their creation.

Using art historical detective work, archival documents, and scientific data, this volume identifies the provenance of an important group of ceramics and places them in a clear historical context for the first time.

During the reign of the Yongle Emperor (1403-1424), imperial workshops produced superb paintings, sculpture, porcelains, and other luxuries. Many depicted imagery associated with Tibetan Buddhism. This volume traces both the importance of foreign influences on these works and their pivotal role in the evolution of later Tibetan imagery and Chinese decorative arts.

This book traces the complex and changing artistic tradition––including the emergence and development of Buddhist art––in this ancient region of Pakistan.

The first in-depth examination of the armor and weapons of Tibet, this exquisite volume includes the first glossary of Tibetan arms and armor terms and excerpts from rare Tibetan texts.

An accessible new guide to understanding Chinese paintings through 36 diverse masterpieces that span 1,000 years from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.

This comprehensive volume examines the career of Wang Hui––the most celebrated painter of late-17th-century China––and his innovative contributions to landscape painting.

This handsome book––the first English-language publication on the subject––highlights the diverse art of the early period of Korea’s revolutionary Joseon dynasty.

This volume sheds light on the enduring significance of textiles as a major form of aesthetic expression across Africa and examines their influence on contemporary artists.