Research Catalog

Title

The art museum / project editor, Diane Fortenberry.

Publication

London ; New York : Phaidon Press, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fortenberry, Diane
• Phaidon Press, issuing body.

Description

440 pages : chiefly color illustrations; 32 cm

Summary

"Visit the world's most comprehensive and compelling museum in a book - from pre-historic times to the present, - over 1,600 artworks created with the expertise of 28 art world curators and historians. Unprecedented, unique, and vast in scope...a visually spectacular survey of world art. Destined to delight, inspire, and educate, as well as to become an invaluable, classic art-reference resource, it is very highly recommended. -Library Journal. Housing the finest art collection ever assembled, this revised, reformatted edition offers the museum experience without the boundaries of space and time, taking the reader on a tour around the world and through the ages. Its rooms and galleries display some 1,600 artworks, selected from the original collection, including paintings, sculpture, photographs, textiles, installations, performances, videos, prints, ceramics, manuscripts, metalwork, and jewel-work." -- provided by publisher.

Subjects

• Art
• Art appreciation
• Art > History
• History

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Includes index.

Call Number

JQG 18-118

ISBN

• 9780714875026
• 0714875023

LCCN

2017446083

OCLC

1004655370

Title

The art museum / project editor, Diane Fortenberry.

Publisher

London ; New York : Phaidon Press, [2017]

Edition

Revised and updated edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Fortenberry, Diane, editor.

Phaidon Press, issuing body.

Research Call Number

JQG 18-118