Permanent Collections

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857252902Author Denis Wendel-PorayFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint SkiraPublisher Skira

Over 90 artists' depictions of boxing, from Vito Acconci to Carrie Mae Weems This book documents an expansive, traveling group exhibition centered on the sport, psychology, ethos and spectacle of boxing. Artists have often gravitated toward the "sweet...

This groundbreaking volume delves into the worlds of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and art of the 20th century, where seminal figures like Renoir, Cezanne, van Gogh, Gauguin, Soutine, Modigliani, Monet, Picasso, O Keeffe, Pollock, and Chagall...

Krampf's exclusive collection of Goerges Braque's post-Cubist paintings reveals both Braque's pioneering individuality and craftsmanship in the history of Modern Art. Or as the artist once said himself, 'I do not do as I want, I do as I can. Progress in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934972Author Aisling MolloyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint WordwellPublisher Wordwell

A comprehensive guide to the Dia Art Foundation's constellation of 12 art spaces across the globe, from Times Square to the Great Salt Lake Basin This handy guidebook maps Dia Art Foundation's constellation of 12 art spaces across the globe. Designed...

This book showcases fifty paintings, sculptures, works on paper, photographs, and more from the National Gallery of Art. Selected from more than 150,000 works in the museum s vast collection, these remarkable examples of European and American art span...

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 9781732193451Author Wook ChoiFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Wook + Lattuada GalleryPublisher Wook + Lattuada GalleryWeight(grams) 735gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890902035Author Bayou Bend CollectionFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Museum of Fine Arts (Houston)Publisher Museum of Fine Arts...

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 9781935677628Author Anna L. DallapiccolaFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Grantha CorporationPublisher Grantha CorporationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890136430Author Daniel KosharekFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Museum of New Mexico PressPublisher Museum of New Mexico PressWeight(grams)...

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 9798988685708Author Carolyn VaughanFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Jordan Schnitzer Family FoundationPublisher Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation

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)...

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...

Highlights from an important and wide-ranging contemporary art collection This survey chronicles over 80 works from the contemporary art collection of Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. Spanning painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video and...

Site-specific installations are created for specific locations and are usually intended as temporary artworks. The Perpetuation of Site-Specific Installation Artworks in Museums: Staging Contemporary Art shows that these artworks consist of more than a...

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

The Swiss National Museum's permanent collection reflects Switzerland's history from pre-historic times until the present day. Each object also represents the location where it was found or made; the people who made or used it; a trade or profession; a...

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...

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...

This full-color publication highlights beautiful objects-both useful and ceremonial-made by the Indigenous artists of the Northwest Coast and Alaska. Since 1925, the Denver Art Museum has collected both historic and contemporary arts from these regions...

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...

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...