Permanent Collections

Chrysler Museum of Art’s expansive collection contains more than 30,000 historical objects from across the globe. This compelling new guide offers a snapshot of the collection through 40 key works consistently on view in the museum’s galleries in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890902035Author Bayou Bend CollectionFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Buffalo Bayou PartnershipPublisher Buffalo Bayou PartnershipWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503517407Author Ira SparFormat HardbackPage Count 490Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 2300gDimensions(mm) 287mm * 236mm * 48mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982681374Author Kelly TaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Gregory Miller & CompanyPublisher Gregory Miller & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971634183Author Mark CoetzeeFormat HardbackPage Count 175Imprint Rubell Family CollectionPublisher Rubell Family Collection

While the foundations of the Josette and Jean-Claude Weill Collection lie in painting, their passion for seeking out exciting new forms soon led them to embrace the infinite diversity of tribal art. Expanded over the decades under the enthusiastic...

Key works of contemporary art from an exemplary Pittsburgh collection Promised to Carnegie Museum of Art in 2015, the Milton and Sheila Fine Collection is an outstanding selection of contemporary painting, sculpture, photography and drawing that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462084995Author R. BaarsenFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872501376Author John O. E. ClarkImprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998825243Author Stephen C WicksFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Knoxville Museum of ArtPublisher Knoxville Museum of ArtWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782330010133Author Eric M zilFormat HardbackPage Count 191Imprint Actes SudPublisher Actes Sud

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906315010Author Maja OeriFormat HardbackPage Count 800Imprint Laurenz Foundation, SchaulagerPublisher Laurenz Foundation, SchaulagerWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789609931458Author Karen MartaFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Deste Foundation for Contemporary ArtPublisher Deste Foundation for Contemporary...

In 1962, Jasper Johns, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg and other artists came together to help Merce Cunningham finance a proposed season on Broadway by organizing a sale of their artworks. Their success led to the formation of the Foundation for...

The Crocker Art Museum has one of the finest and earliest German drawings collections in the United States. Featuring artists such as Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, Anton Raphael Mengs and Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, The Splendor of Germany examines...

St Cecilia's Hall is Scotland's oldest purpose-built concert hall and home to the University of Edinburgh's world-famous musical instrument collection. Comprising over 500 rare and beautiful instruments from across the globe - many of which are still...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783863352400Author Frederico CampagnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783863351748Author Julia FriedrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417975630Author Monica AmievaFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint RM Verlag SLPublisher RM Verlag SL

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783944669199Author Eugen BlumeFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938461835Author Skolnick Architecture + Design PartnershipFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Pointed Leaf PressPublisher Pointed Leaf Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997858914Author Wendy EarleFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Museum of the SouthwestPublisher Museum of the Southwest

This book grants unexpected, beautiful and provoking insights into the diversity of the collection of treasures held in Leipzig's GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts. Focusing on the joy of contemplating the works, its hope is to awaken the desire for a...

ArtScience Museum is the cultural heart of Marina Bay Sands in Singapore and explores the intersection between art, science, technology and culture. Since its opening in February 2011, ArtScience Museum has staged large-scale exhibitions by some of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646570096Author Riley RobinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Artpace a Foundation for Contemporary ArtPublisher Artpace a Foundation for...

In 1969, at the height of the Cold War, a group of British Christian researchers and activists, moved by the persecution of believers in the Soviet Union, established an organization dedicated to the study of religion under communism. They had two major...

Walk on the Wild Side is the mesmerising second book of the Dorothy Circus Trilogy, presenting an immersive and detailed look at every exhibition of Pop Surrealism that took place at the world-renowned gallery in 2012. This volume catalogues these...

For the first time, this important volume features nearly all of the ancient glass objects in the collection of the Princeton University Art Museum. Collected over the course of more than a century, the objects originate from locations across the eastern...

Over the course of his career, artist Paul Dyck (1917-2006) assembled more than 2,000 nineteenth-century artworks created by the buffalo-hunting peoples of the Great Plains. Only with its acquisition by the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center...

The largest maps in the world are to be found in the floor of the Citizens' Hall, in the heart of the Royal Palace Amsterdam. The three circular mosaics, each measuring over six metres in diameter, together depict the known world and the night sky. They...

Television before TV rethinks the history of interwar television by exploring the medium's numerous demonstrations organized at national fairs and international exhibitions in the late 1920s and 1930s. Building upon extensive archival research in...

The grid often hides in plain sight, from notepads and spreadsheets to halftone photographic reproductions. It dominates the organisation, perception, and representation of the modern world, especially in print. Deeply embedded in a Western worldview,...

Diamonds tell stories that are captivating and timeless. On the one hand, they are just stones, pieces of pure carbon with optical properties that make them glitter and sparkle like stars. On the other, they are mystical entities hypnotically drawing...

Formerly the official residences of the Tsars, the five buildings that comprise the State Hermitage Museum now house one of the finest art collections in the world. The collection is as vast and rich as its surroundings - ranging from prehistoric...

An exciting guide to, and celebration of, the Whitney Museum and its outstanding collection of American art This all-new handbook, a fresh look at the Whitney Museum of American Art's collection, highlights the museum's extraordinary holdings and its...

"Craft for a Modern World" highlights nearly 200 of the extraordinary craft objects held at the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Nora Atkinson looks at the whole notion of what defines craft, and how attitudes towards it are continually...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates 150 years by presenting its evolution into one of the world's greatest museums and its vision for the future Published to celebrate the Museum's 150th anniversary, Making The Met examines the institution's...

In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China-the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site...

With French as its working language, Cobra was pretty much the last truly European movement within Modernism. The group's anarchic story is not just an important strand in art history - it remains as lively as ever and has inspired all sorts of artists...

This new volume in the series of National Gallery collection catalogues focuses on 16th-century Bologna and Ferrara. The Gallery holds the most important collection of these paintings outside Italy, including works by Garofalo representing his entire...