Cochineal Red - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cochineal Red write by Elena Phipps. This book was released on 2010. Cochineal Red available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From antiquity to the present day, color has been embedded with cultural meaning. Associated with blood, fire, fertility, and life force, the color red has always been extremely difficult to achieve and thus highly prized." "This book discusses the origin of the red colorant derived from the insect cochineal, its early use in Precolumbian ritual textiles from Mexico and Peru, and the spread of the American dyestuff through cultural interchange following the Spanish discovery and conquest of the New World in the 16th century. Drawing on examples from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, it documents the use of this red-colored treasure in several media and throughout the world.
Guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art write by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). This book was released on 1972. Guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "When the Metropolitan Museum came into being in 1870, the founders stressed its role in giving popular instruction. Ever since then its public has expressed interest in obtaining a general guidebook to all the multiple facets of its encyclopedic collections. But a museum is a living, constantly changing institution, and the preparation of such a guide presents many problems. The scope and depth of the Museum's holdings are described with flexibility in mind, so that alterations to the building and changes in the collections can be readily accommodated in future editions of this Guide. The number of pages allocated to each department is restricted to multiples of eight pages; this will permit revisions in future editions. A guidebook, however, should not be a straitjacket. It is impossible to locate accurately all works at all times because paintings and objects are constantly being cleaned, restored, loaned to other museums, or rehung within the Metropolitan. In designing a guide that is easily portable and of interest to a large public, severe restrictions have had to be imposed. The text serves an introductory function and is not intended to give the kind of detailed information found in a catalogue or scholarly publication. Many other books published by the Museum are available to anyone wishing to follow his own special interests: a series of popular handbooks and comprehensive catalogues of various aspects of the collections are available in the Museum's bookshops; the Bulletin of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a general interest magazine covering all phases of Museum activity, appears regularly throughout the year; and the Journal of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a collection of scholarly monographs, is issued annually. An independent guide covers the collection at The Cloisters, our branch museum of medieval art at Fort Tryon Park"--Introduction
The Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art write by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). This book was released on 1905. The Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New ser. v. 6-29 include 77th-100th Annual report of the Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1946-1969-70 (previously and subsequently published separately).
Apollo’s Muse
Apollo’s Muse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Apollo’s Muse write by Mia Fineman. This book was released on 2019-07-01. Apollo’s Muse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana} On July 20, 1969, half a billion viewers around the world watched as the first television footage of American astronauts on the moon was beamed back to earth—a thrilling turning point in the history of images, satisfying an age-old curiosity about our planet’s only natural satellite. To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, this captivating volume surveys the role photography has played in the scientific study and artistic interpretation of the moon from the dawn of the medium to the present, highlighting not only stunning photographic works but also related prints, drawings, paintings, and astronomical instruments. Apollo’s Muse traces the history of lunar photography, from newly discovered daguerreotypes of the 1840s to contemporary film and video works. Along the way, it explores nineteenth century efforts to map the lunar surface, whimsical fantasies of life on the moon, the visual language of the Cold War space race, and work created in response to the moon landing by artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Nancy Graves, and Aleksandra Mir. A delightful introduction by Tom Hanks, star of the award winning 1995 film Apollo 13, delves into the universal fascination with representations of the cosmos and the ways in which space travel has radically expanded the limits of human vision.
Creating The Cloisters
Creating The Cloisters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creating The Cloisters write by Timothy Husband. This book was released on 2013. Creating The Cloisters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
