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The art museum / [conceived by Richard Schlagman].
Fine Arts Library Folio N5300 .A6845 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--History.
- Art.
- History.
- Art appreciation.
- Physical Description:
- 992 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color maps, ; 43 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, NY : Phaidon, 2011.
- Summary:
- "This unique book was created with a global team of specialists in all fields of art, including museum curators and educators, who have collected together important works as they might be displayed in the ideal museum for the art lover... Features 992 oversized pages of nearly 2,700 works of art"--Publisher.
- Contents:
- Art of the Stone Age
- Ancient Near East
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Greece
- Early Italian and Etruscan art
- Ancient Rome
- Native cultures of early Europe
- Central Asia
- China and Korea
- Japan
- Byzantine art
- Islamic art
- Medieval Europe
- Italian Renaissance
- Northern Renaissance
- South Asia
- South-east Asia
- Native cultures of the Americas
- Baroque and Rococo
- Neoclassicism
- Art of the Nineteenth century
- Africa
- Australia and Oceania
- Art from 1900 to mid-century
- Art since the mid-20th century.
- Notes:
- "This imaginary museum, created and curated by Phaidon, houses ... around 3,000 paintings, sculptures, frescos, photographs, tapestries, friezes, installations, performances, videos, woodblock prints, screens, ceramics, and manuscripts that together tell the history of world art"--T.p. verso.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780714856520
- 0714856525
- OCLC:
- 714731902
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