This groundbreaking book features more than 800 works from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Organized by thematic keywords, it offers fresh, unconventional ways of engaging with visual culture.
By The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Foreword by Max Hollein
This groundbreaking book features more than 800 works from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Organized by thematic keywords-rather than the usual chronological or geographical categories-and drawing on analytics from The Met's online Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, it offers fresh, unconventional ways of engaging with visual culture. In addition to the wealth of illustrations, more than 160 engaging curatorial essays place the works in context, and a detachable foldout timeline offers further perspective.
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| Description | By The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Foreword by Max Hollein This groundbreaking book features more than 800 works from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Organized by thematic keywords-rather than the usual chronological or geographical categories-and drawing on analytics from The Met's online Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, it offers fresh, unconventional ways of engaging with visual culture. In addition to the wealth of illustrations, more than 160 engaging curatorial essays place the works in context, and a detachable foldout timeline offers further perspective.
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