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Beschreibung:

366 Seiten; zahlr. farbige, zumeist großformatige Illustrationen; 31 cm; fadengeh. Orig.-Leinenband m. farb. illustr. Orig.-Umschlag.

Bemerkung:

Gutes Exemplar; der Umschlag etwas berieben u.m. kl. Aufkleber. - Englisch. - The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is one of America's great museums, with an encyclopedic collection of more than 20,000 works of art in which all cultures and all periods are represented by numerous masterpieces. The collection has exceptional strength and depth in such areas as Renaissance art, English and early American decorative arts (the latter at a noted adjunct facility, Bayou Bend, formerly Ima Hogg's private estate), late nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and American art, and fine-art photography. This magnificent volume, the very first to cover the full range of the museum's riches, presents 150 masterworks in full-page colorplates, each facing an individual essay about the artist, the work, and its cultural and historical contexts. The volume is organized by departments of the museum: Art of the Americas and Tribal Arts, Near and Far Eastern Art, Ancient and Early European Art, Later European Art, Prints and Drawings, Decorative Arts, American Art, Photography, and Twentieth-Century Art. In all, six continents and four millennia are represented, including treasures by many of the most acclaimed artists in history: old masters Giovanni di Paolo, Fra Angelico, van der Weyden, Memling, Claude, Dürer, Fragonard, and Canaletto; nineteenth-century Europeans Chardin, Delacroix, Corot, Renoir, Cassatt, Cezanne, van Gogh, Gauguin, Gericault, Redon, and Degas; Americans Copley, Peale, Stuart, Hicks, Kensett, Church, Whistler, Homer, and Sargent; photographers Steichen, Weston, Kertesz, and Stieglitz; and twentieth-century masters Modigliani, Picasso, Klee, Brancusi, Braque, Matisse, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Leger, O'Keeffe, Pollock, Giacometti, Rothko, Diebenkorn, Baselitz, and Johns. An introduction by museum director Peter C. Marzio details the history of the institution, its building (including portions designed by Mies van de Rohe as part of his master plan), its collections, and its leading patrons. (Verlagstext) ISBN 1555950221