The Art Guide: New York /anglais - Softcover

FALCONER MORGAN

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500289212 ISBN 13: 9780500289211

Publisher: THAMES HUDSON, 2011

Synopsis

This is a fully illustrated guide to the glorious riches of New Yorks museums and galleries, drawing on the cream of the city's collections to create an easily navigable, narrative history of art. The guides unique approach allows you to locate your favourite artist or style of art in any museum and follow this throughout the museums of New York. Do you like, say, French art? This book will show you where to find it in New York, from great masterpieces of the genre on show in world-famous institutions to hidden gems housed in galleries off the beaten track. It helps you visit the Metropolitan Museum to take in Nicolas Poussin, Jacques-Louis David and Courbet; move on to the Frick Collection to see works by the Rococo painters Boucher and Fragonard, or take off to the Dahesh Museum, the only American insitution devoted to the academic tradition in the 19th and 20th centuries. Featuring over 100 destinations, including the Metropolitan Musuem of Modern Art, Neue Galerie, MoMA, the Guggen

About this edition

• Publisher: THAMES HUDSON
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0500289212
• ISBN 13: 9780500289211
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240