Modern Design 1890-1990 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, av R. Craigh Miller

A selection of 130 masterworks from the modern design collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The book is divided into 13 stylistic sections which feature photographs of furniture, metalwork, ceramics, glass, lighting, textiles, costumes and architectural and design drawings.

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 colour reproductions of both overall views and details of these works of art.

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 colour.

“An armchair tour of the museum's collection, this overview provides a basic description of trends in the applied arts during the last century.”

Table of contents: Foreword, Perceptions of Design, Modern Design at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Color Plates, Notes, Appendix A, Appendix B, Acknowledgments, Index.

Den inbundna boken (linneklotband) med förlagets dekorerade skyddsomslag är helt ny och i mycket nära nyskick. Det finns endast några minimala, obetydliga märken på bokens omslag samt ett ringa slitage på omslagets hörn efter drygt 25 års lagring i en bokhylla. Boken är mycket rikligt illustrerad med magnifika fotografier, huvudsakligen i färg.

Dimensioner och utgivningsdata:

Höjd/bredd ca 312/260 mm
Ryggbredd ca 31 mm
Vikt ca 2400 gram
Sidantal 304
Författare R. Craigh Miller
Förlag Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, New York in co-operation with The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Språk engelska
Utgivningsår 1990
ISBN 0-8109-3612-7

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