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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide by Curatorial Staff
Description not available.Illustrates and describes nine hundred works of art representing each of the Museum's eighteen departments

AUTHOR: Curatorial Staff
PUBLISHER: Metropolitan Museum of Art, The
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Monet by Carla Rachman
Claude Monet (1840-1926) the quintessential Impressionist, started his career in the 1860s but remained productive throughout the first quarter of the twentieth century. Carla Rachman`s clear and engaging account offers an accessible introduction to Monet`s art, analysing the works themselves and also the social basis for the shifts in taste and the changing political and economic forces within Monet`s lifetime. The artist`s personal life, his relations with dealers, patrons, critics and institutions are seen as formative influences on the choice of subject and construction of pictures. The book traces critical reaction to Monet`s work from the early years, which were marked by a clash with conventional artistic values, to the present, when Monet`s vision of the world has gained popularity with the public at large.

AUTHOR: Carla Rachman
PUBLISHER: Phaidon Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

The Grandeur of Viceregal Mexico by Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Staff, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Staff, San Diego Museum of Art Staff
The Mexican colonial period has traditionally been considered a dark period in the arts, a long gap between the arrival of the Spaniards and the early twentieth century. Through new and focused scholarship, the exhibition catalogue The Grandeur of Viceregal Mexico demonstrates that just the opposite is true. This landmark publication features extraordinary decorative and fine arts from the Mexican viceregal period (1521-1821). The lavishly illustrated catalogue is written in Spanish and English and, for the first time, presents to American audiences the rich artistic heritage of colonial Mexico. Five insightful essays by Mexican and American specialists explore the confluence of cultures that gives the arts of colonial Mexico a distinctive quality. This distinction, which differentiates the works from the arts of both Spain and other Latin American countries, is not widely understood in either the United States or Mexico. Expert commentaries enable readers to learn in greater depth about the outstanding collection of paintings, sculptures, furniture, ceramics, metals, textiles, featherwork, lacquer, and books housed in the Museo Franz Mayer in Mexico City. The contributors are: D. Hector Rivero Borrell Miranda, Director of the Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City Gustavo Curiel, cultural historian Antonio Rubial Garcia, historian Juana Gutierrez Haces, art historian Peter C. Marzio, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston David B. Warren, Director of Bayou Bend Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

AUTHOR: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Staff, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Staff, San Diego Museum of Art Staff
PUBLISHER: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Much Ado about Nothing
Completely re-edited, the New Folger Library edition of Shakespeare's play puts readers in touch with current ways of thinking about Shakespeare. Each freshly edited text is based directly on what editors consider the best early printed version of the play. New edition.
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Vol. VIII by Tennessee Williams
The four plays collected here were penned in the last ten years of Williams's life.

AUTHOR: Tennessee Williams
PUBLISHER: New Directions Publishing Corporation
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Watercolor & Collage Workshop by Gerald Brommer
This original, bold, and entertaining approach uses techniques developed in workshops to show how collage helps the artist achieve dynamic compositions, use line, emphasize texture, and rescue unsuccessful paintings. The author's own paintings and examples from other topflight watercolorists show a wide range of collage style. 300 color and 70 b&w illustrations.

AUTHOR: Gerald Brommer
PUBLISHER: Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture