The Temple of Dendûr
Author | : Aylward Manley Blackman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Dandūr (Egypt) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Aylward Manley Blackman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Dandūr (Egypt) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Cyril Aldred |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Architecture, Egyptian |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Christine Coulson |
Publisher | : Other Press, LLC |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2019-10-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590510631 |
“Only someone who deeply loves and understands the Metropolitan Museum could deliver such madcap, funny, magical, tender, intimate fables and stories.” —Maira Kalman, artist and bestselling author of The Principles of Uncertainty From a writer who worked at the Metropolitan Museum for more than twenty-five years, an enchanting novel that shows us the Met that the public doesn't see. Hidden behind the Picassos and Vermeers, the Temple of Dendur and the American Wing, exists another world: the hallways and offices, conservation studios, storerooms, and cafeteria that are home to the museum's devoted and peculiar staff of 2,200 people—along with a few ghosts. A surreal love letter to this private side of the Met, Metropolitan Stories unfolds in a series of amusing and poignant vignettes in which we discover larger-than-life characters, the downside of survival, and the powerful voices of the art itself. The result is a novel bursting with magic, humor, and energetic detail, but also a beautiful book about introspection, an ode to lives lived for art, ultimately building a powerful collage of human experience and the world of the imagination.
Author | : Lloyd Schwartz |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2000-10 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0226741931 |
In Cairo Traffic, his third book of poems, Lloyd Schwartz asks the Sphinx to explain the riddle "about, you know, / Time and Power and Families-the one you think you / have the answer to. Tell me your answer! / No . . . don't." The search for answers takes the poet to some surprising, often phantasmagoric places, and back again to the self, to dreams, to home, and even to the nursing home where his mother-sphinxlike herself-becomes the person asking the dark questions and providing some unexpected answers. These extraordinary narratives-funny and frightening, seductive and profoundly moving-explore the intersections of character and language, the places where common speech mysteriously transforms itself into poetry. This book, which includes several translations of contemporary Brazilian poems, confirms Schwartz's growing reputation as an intensely compelling and original poet.
Author | : Adela Oppenheim |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2015-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1588395642 |
The Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030–1650 B.C.) was a transformational period in ancient Egypt, during which older artistic conventions, cultural principles, religious beliefs, and political systems were revived and reimagined. Ancient Egypt Transformed presents a comprehensive picture of the art of the Middle Kingdom, arguably the least known of Egypt’s three kingdoms and yet one that saw the creation of powerful, compelling works rendered with great subtlety and sensitivity. The book brings together nearly 300 diverse works— including sculpture, relief decoration, stelae, jewelry, coffins, funerary objects, and personal possessions from the world’s leading collections of Egyptian art. Essays on architecture, statuary, tomb and temple relief decoration, and stele explore how Middle Kingdom artists adapted forms and iconography of the Old Kingdom, using existing conventions to create strikingly original works. Twelve lavishly illustrated chapters, each with a scholarly essay and entries on related objects, begin with discussions of the distinctive art that arose in the south during the early Middle Kingdom, the artistic developments that followed the return to Egypt’s traditional capital in the north, and the renewed construction of pyramid complexes. Thematic chapters devoted to the pharaoh, royal women, the court, and the vital role of family explore art created for different strata of Egyptian society, while others provide insight into Egypt’s expanding relations with foreign lands and the themes of Middle Kingdom literature. The era’s religious beliefs and practices, such as the pilgrimage to Abydos, are revealed through magnificent objects created for tombs, chapels, and temples. Finally, the book discusses Middle Kingdom archaeological sites, including excavations undertaken by the Metropolitan Museum over a number of decades. Written by an international team of respected Egyptologists and Middle Kingdom specialists, the text provides recent scholarship and fresh insights, making the book an authoritative resource.
Author | : Emery Kelen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Egypt |
ISBN | : |
Summary: Describes life of the ancient Egyptians and relates the story of the temple that was moved to New York when the Aswan Dam was built.
Author | : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0870999613 |
"More than 150 works of art that exemplify all these societies at the Year One are illustrated in color and explained in this volume. Historical summaries accompanied by maps briefly describe the nature of each culture and the flow of power and peoples during the period centering around the Year One.
Author | : Barbara Burn |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0870998498 |
Each reproduction is accompanied by a text that includes pertinent information about the work.
Author | : Lloyd Schwartz |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2021-08-27 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 022679508X |
"There is no one quite like Lloyd Schwartz, whose unique combination of comedy and pathos is rare in contemporary American poetry. Over the years and books, Schwartz has developed a pitch-perfect ear for dialogue, producing poems that are hilarious in their depiction of unsettling social situations, while still managing to find the kernel of poignancy buried in everyday encounters. He is a master of the speech-driven style of verse, which is based on overheard, interrupted, or invented conversations that are by turns humorous and deeply unsettling, intimate yet decorous. In the new poems section, Schwartz brings his broad experience across the arts (including his many years as a music critic and commentator) to bear, with poems that recall the feeling of both performing and apprehending a piece of music, say, or a painting, a film, or a poem; he explores the figures depicted within these artworks, their fears and desires, revealing whole unexplored, interior worlds, a universe in a pack of tarot cards. This collection, which gathers the very best of Schwartz's work over his long, distinguished career, amply displays the tenderness and delicacy of feeling that we've come to rely on in his poetry. "Who's on First?" is a fitting capstone to a long life lived in the arts"--
Author | : Thomas Hoving |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0671880756 |
The former director of the famed New York museum recounts his activities at the art world's pinnacle, from wooing important patrons to battling for acquisitions.