An introductory overview by Ann Farkas and essays by Russian authorities explain the history and archaeology of the nomads of Eurasia, the Filippovka kurgans, cults and rituals of the steppe nomads, etc.

The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Scythian and Sarmatian Treasures from the Russian Steppes : The State Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, and the Archaeological Museum, Ufa

Aruz, Joan, Ann Farkas, Andrei Alekseev, and Elena Korolkova (eds)

Arts & Photography

The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press

The Cloisters, a branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is home to an extraordinary collection of art and architecture from medieval Europe. Praised after it opened in 1938 as "the crowning achievement of American museology," The Cloisters remains a triumph of design innovation. Incorporated into the very fabric of the building are portions of five medieval French cloisters and many other monuments arranged in an environment that thoughtfully evokes the grand religious spaces and domestic interiors of the Middle Ages. More than 125 highlights of The Cloisters are presented here, beginning with some of the earliest pieces in the collection, from about A.D. 800, and finishing with later works that foretell the arrival of the Renaissance in western Europe. By surveying these elaborate tapestries, delicate carvings, and other objects in roughly the historical sequence in which they were created, we glimpse the evolving styles and artistic traditions of the Middle Ages and gain a more meaningful understanding of the contexts in which many of them appeared. Among the masterpieces on display at The Cloisters are the famed Unicorn Tapestries, the richly carved twelfth-century ivory cross associated with the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, known as the "Cloisters Cross," the exquisite triptych by the Netherlandish painter Robert Campin, and many fine examples of manuscript illumination, enameling, metalwork, and stained glass. Complete with digital color photography, map, floor plan, and glossary, The Cloisters: Medieval Art and Architecture is a contemporary guide that will reward students and enthusiasts of the Middle Ages as well as visitors seeing the Museum for the first time.

The Cloisters: Medieval Art and Architecture

Peter Barnet

Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor

Campbell, Thomas P. [ed]

This handsome book is the first comprehensive examination of the Pictures Generation, a loosely knit group of artists working in New York from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. The overarching subject of the work of these artists was imagery itself—how pictures not only depict but also shape how we perceive the world and ourselves. The collective achievement of this group is an extremely important chapter in the history of contemporary art. Born into an expanding media and consumer culture and educated in the strategies of Minimal and Conceptual art, the artists of the Pictures Generation, including Robert Longo, Richard Prince, David Salle, and Cindy Sherman, chose to return to representation, addressing the rhetorical, social, and psychological functions of the image across all media (photography, painting and sculpture, drawings and prints, film and video, and music and performance). While the careers of these artists are typically considered in isolation, this catalogue traces thei

The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984

Douglas Eklund

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915.

Weinberg, H. Barbara and Carrie Rebora Barratt (eds)

History & Criticism

The American Matisse: The Dealer, His Artists, His Collection

Dabrowski, Magdalena

REWALD, Sabine

The Renaissance Portrait: From Donatello to Bellini

Cubism: the Leonard A. Lauder Collection

BRAUN

Rebecca [Editor]

Emily [editor]; Rabinow

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