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Modern Design in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1890-1990 Hardcover Book.January 1, 1990 by R. Craig Miller (Author).The exceptional and wide-ranging modern design collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, are virtually unpublished and rarely on view. For this handsomely produced book, R. Craig Miller, the museum's curator of modern design, has selected 130 masterworks, each of which has been specially photographed in full color. 250 illustrations.
With the opening in 1987 of the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing, the Metropolitan Museum at long last had a permanent gallery in which to display its Modern design and architecture collection. This space has made it possible for objects that had not been on view for several decades to be shown on a rotating basis, although they can only impart a hint of the remarkably rich collection that the Museum has amassed over a century.
This book presents an extraordinary number of masterpieces from the collection that we would never have the space or ability to display simultaneously. Although not a catalogue raisonné, this book does reveal the vast range and depth of material that the Museum has acquired, most of it in the design and architecture collection of the Department of Twentieth Century Art but a great deal of it also drawn from other parts of the Museum—the American Wing, The Costume Institute, the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, and the Department of Prints and Photographs. It is divided into sections and chronologically organized. Each section begins with an introductory essay for that time period, followed by numerous color reproductions of both overall views and details of these works of art.
* Publisher : Harry N Abrams Inc; First Edition (January 1, 1990)
* Language : English
Hardcover : 304 pagesCondition: No dust jacket.Out of print.1st edition 1st printing.
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Intended to showcase items not on permanent display, this volume chronicles the evolution of the design collection at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Design, also known as applied, industrial or decorative art, is defined here as work conceived by a designer and manufactured in a limited edition. Miller, curator of modern design at the Denver Art Museum, provides an informative, if dry, introductory text emphasizing key curatorial figures and important exhibitions in the Metropolitan's history. Significant art movements of the past 100 years are represented by examples of glass, ceramics, metalwork, lighting, textiles, costume, architectural and decorative drawings and furniture forms; more than half of the 360 illustrations of some 125 masterworks are in color. An armchair tour of the museum's collection, this overview provides a basic description of trends in the applied arts during the last century.Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Dimensions:Height: 12 in (30.48 cm)Width: 10 in (25.4 cm)Depth: 1.25 in (3.18 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:1990
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