Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
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Raphael: Sublime Poetry
$75.00 Read moreThe definitive survey of one of the masters of Italian Renaissance art, featuring groundbreaking new research by a leading expert on Raphael’s life and work
Raphael (Raffaello di Giovanni Santi; 1483-- Author: Bambach, Carmen C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1588398110
- Language: English
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Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck
$45.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking introduction to Scandinavian artist Helene Schjerfbeck through the paintings and drawings that mark her as an exceptional modernist
Reevaluating the role of Finnish painter Helene Sch- Author: Amory, Dita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1588398072
- Language: English
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Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages
$30.00 Add to cartReframing medieval art through the lens of queer theory, this pioneering volume sharpens our understanding of conceptions of gender, the body, and eroticism across three centuries
This pioneering vol- Author: Holcomb, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1588398056
- Language: English
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Divine Egypt
$65.00 Add to cartA rare and captivating look at ancient Egyptian deities that demystifies their complex iconography to illuminate three millennia of life and religious practice
Ancient Egyptian religious practice flo- Author: Craig Patch, Diana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1588398048
- Language: English
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Man Ray: When Objects Dream
$65.00 Add to cartThe first in-depth study of Man Ray’s groundbreaking rayographs of the 1920s and their interconnections with his Dada and Surrealist works
This is the first in-depth study of the rayograph (or camer- Author: D’Alessandro, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1588398021
- Language: English
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How to Read African Textiles
$29.95 Add to cartThe latest volume in The Met’s How to Read series, focusing on the rich and varied textiles of Africa through forty exemplars from the nineteenth century to the present day
Historically, handwoven cl- Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art – How to Read
- Author: Giuntini, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1588397912
- Language: English
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Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100-1900
$65.00 Add to cartA reappraisal of the often-overlooked Chinese bronzes made from the twelfth through nineteenth centuries, demonstrating their profound impact on Chinese art and culture
Bronze vessels were the ultima- Author: Lu, Pengliang
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1588397904
- Language: English
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Lorna Simpson: Source Notes
$45.00 Add to cartThe first publication on the painting practice of artist Lorna Simpson, whose work combines abstraction and figuration to highlight complexities of memory and representation
This revelatory first loo- Author: Rosati, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1588398005
- Language: English
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Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie
$35.00 Add to cartCuriosity and critique foreground this novel history of porcelain that unravels the cultural myths of Chinoiserie, Europe’s fantasy of the East
Monstrous Beauty presents a bold cross-cultural history- Author: Moon, Iris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1588397920
- Language: English
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The Three Perfections: Japanese Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting
$65.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking survey examining the interrelationship of poetry, calligraphy, and painting in Japanese art from the eleventh to the early twentieth century
In East Asian cultures, the integration o- Author: Carpenter, John T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1588397807
- Language: English
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Superfine: Tailoring Black Style
$75.00 Add to cartThis exploration of Black dandy fashion and its representation in art and literature highlights the vibrant, complicated legacy of a recognizable yet constantly shifting style, from its origins in Enl… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Monica L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1588397998
- Language: English
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Sargent and Paris
$50.00 Add to cartA fascinating look at John Singer Sargent’s formative years as a young painter in Paris, a city that helped forge his artistic identity and sparked his rise to the pinnacle of the nineteenth-century a… [more below]
- Author: Herdrich, Stephanie L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1588397955
- Language: English
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Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature
$50.00 Add to cartA richly illustrated volume surveying the career of Caspar David Friedrich, the German landscape painter whose emotionally profound visions of nature are among the most iconic works of Romantic art
T- Author: Hokanson, Alison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1588397890
- Language: English
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Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now
$50.00 Add to cartThe first publication to examine the symbolic importance of ancient Egypt to Black artists and other cultural figures, from the nineteenth century through the Harlem Renaissance to the present
From t- Author: Tommasino, Akili
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1588397858
- Language: English
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Irving Penn: Centennial
$70.00 Add to cartThe definitive book on the work of a virtuosic and revered American photographer
Irving Penn (1917-2009) was among the most esteemed and influential photographers of the 20th century. Over the course- Author: Hambourg, Maria Morris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1588396185
- Language: English
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Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet
$35.00 Add to cartExploring the significance of Tibetan mandalas from their ancient origins to the present day, this gorgeously illustrated volume provides a contemporary perspective on a centuries-old Buddhist model o… [more below]
- Author: Behrendt, Kurt A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1588397823
- Language: English
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Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
$30.00 Add to cartA reassessment of the career of architect Paul Rudolph, from his modernist Sarasota houses to his controversial Brutalist buildings and later international projects, featuring unpublished drawings, mo… [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Abraham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1588397831
- Language: English
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Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents
$50.00 Read moreThis timely study of Winslow Homer highlights his imagery of the Atlantic world and reveals themes of racial, political, and natural conflict across his career
Long celebrated as the quintessential N- Author: Herdrich, Stephanie L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1588397475
- Language: English
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Bernd & Hilla Becher
$65.00 Read moreThe first comprehensive, posthumous monograph and retrospective on Bernd and Hilla Becher, best known for their photographs of industrial structures in Europe and North America
For more than five dec- Author: Rosenheim, Jeff L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1588397556
- Language: English
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Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition
$50.00 Read moreA pioneering study of how Picasso, Braque, and Gris engaged with the pictorial tradition of illusion and deception in their influential Cubist works
The age-old tradition of pictorial illusionism, kn- Author: Braun, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1588396762
- Language: English
