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Book Synopsis Making the Mummies Dance by : Thomas Hoving
Download or read book Making the Mummies Dance written by Thomas Hoving and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis False Impressions by : Thomas Hoving
Download or read book False Impressions written by Thomas Hoving and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-05-08 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art examines the world of art forgery, from ancient times to the present, sharing anecdotes about some of the costliest, most embarrassing forgeries ever, as well as the motives of the fakers.
Book Synopsis The Toughest Show on Earth by : Joseph Volpe
Download or read book The Toughest Show on Earth written by Joseph Volpe and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Toughest Show on Earth is the ultimate behind-the-scenes chronicle of the divas and the dramas of New York’s Metropolitan Opera House, by the remarkable man who rose from apprentice carpenter to general manager. Joseph Volpe gives us an anecdote-filled tour of more than four decades at the Met, an institution full of vast egos and complicated politics. With stunning candor, he writes about the general managers he worked under, his embattled rise to the top, the maneuverings of the blue-chip board, and his masterful approach to making a family of such artist-stars as Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Teresa Stratas, and Renee Fleming, and such visionary directors as Franco Zeffirelli, Robert Wilson, and Julie Taymor. Intimate and frank, The Toughest Show on Earth is not only essential for music lovers, but for anyone who wants to understand the inner workings of the culture business.
Book Synopsis King of the Confessors by : Thomas Hoving
Download or read book King of the Confessors written by Thomas Hoving and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1982 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Inside the Art World by : Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel
Download or read book Inside the Art World written by Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a series of 36 interviews with leading contemporary artists and art world figures--including curators, collectors, museum directors, and dealers--Diamonstein investigates how artists view their own work and how the art world has changed in the past decade. Among those interviewed: Leo Castelli, Christo and Jeanne-Claude Christo, Jenny Holzer, Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons, Brice Marden, Robert Rauschenberg, and Richard Serra. Includes numerous photos of the interviewees in conversation. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis The Art of Dan Namingha by : Thomas Hoving
Download or read book The Art of Dan Namingha written by Thomas Hoving and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2000 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both a biography and a critical study, this book presents the work of Dan Namingha, who is among the best known Native American artists. Pictured here are his dazzling paintings and sensuous bronze sculptures inspired by the cultural symbols and landscape of the desert Southwest. 120 illustrations, 80 in full color.
Book Synopsis Greatest Works of Art of Western Civilization by : Thomas Hoving
Download or read book Greatest Works of Art of Western Civilization written by Thomas Hoving and published by Artisan Publishers. This book was released on 1997-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York chooses the 111 works of art--culled from the entire history of Western civilization--that have influenced him most, reproduced in full-color and complemented by his interpretations. Tour.
Download or read book Tutankhamun written by Thomas Hoving and published by Cooper Square Press. This book was released on 2002-04-02 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of Tutankhamun's treasure-filled tomb is one of the greatest events in modern archeology. It is also a story so filled with intrigues, accusations, international imbroglios, and lasting scandals that it forever altered the way archaeological expeditions were organized and conducted. Hoving's Tutankhamun focuses on Howard Carter, the archaeologist who persisted for six years in his search in the Valley of the Kings for Tutankhamun's tomb. Other major figures in the discovery include: Carter's patron Lord Carnarvon, who died shortly after entering the tomb, thus kindling rumors of a curse; Carter's rival Pierre Lacau, a French Jesuit who headed the Antiquities Service in Cairo and did everything he could to ruin Carter and deny his claim; the Egyptian authorities determined to keep the artifacts of their national heritage in their country; and Arthur Weigall and other Egyptologists who felt slighted by Carter's refusal to admit experts anywhere near his discovery.
Download or read book Rogues' Gallery written by Michael Gross and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.” With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation’s greatest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this endlessly entertaining follow-up to his bestselling social history 740 Park, Gross pulls back the shades of secrecy that have long shrouded the upper class’s cultural and philanthropic ambitions and maneuvers. And he paints a revealing portrait of a previously hidden face of American wealth and power. The Metropolitan, Gross writes, “is a huge alchemical experiment, turning the worst of man’s attributes—extravagance, lust, gluttony, acquisitiveness, envy, avarice, greed, egotism, and pride—into the very best, transmuting deadly sins into priceless treasure.” The book covers the entire 138-year history of the Met, focusing on the museum’s most colorful characters. Opening with the lame-duck director Philippe de Montebello, the museum’s longest-serving leader who finally stepped down in 2008, Rogues’ Gallery then goes back to the very beginning, highlighting, among many others: the first director, Luigi Palma di Cesnola, an Italian-born epic phony, whose legacy is a trove of plundered ancient relics, some of which remain on display today; John Pierpont Morgan, the greatest capitalist and art collector of his day, who turned the museum from the plaything of a handful of rich amateurs into a professional operation dedicated, sort of, to the public good; John D. Rockefeller Jr., who never served the Met in any official capacity but who, during the Great Depression, proved the only man willing and rich enough to be its benefactor, which made him its behind-the-scenes puppeteer; the controversial Thomas Hoving, whose tenure as director during the sixties and seventies revolutionized museums around the world but left the Met in chaos; and Jane Engelhard and Annette de la Renta, a mother-daughter trustee tag team whose stories will astonish you (think Casablanca rewritten by Edith Wharton). With a supporting cast that includes artists, forgers, and looters, financial geniuses and scoundrels, museum officers (like its chairman Arthur Amory Houghton, head of Corning Glass, who once ripped apart a priceless and ancient Islamic book in order to sell it off piecemeal), trustees (like Jayne Wrightsman, the Hollywood party girl turned society grand dame), curators (like the aging Dietrich von Bothmer, a refugee from Nazi Germany with a Bronze Star for heroism whose greatest acquisitions turned out to be looted), and donors (like Irwin Untermyer, whose collecting obsession drove his wife and children to suicide), and with cameo appearances by everyone from Vogue editors Anna Wintour and Diana Vreeland to Sex Pistols front man Johnny Rotten, Rogues’ Gallery is a rich, satisfying, alternately hilarious and horrifying look at America’s upper class, and what is perhaps its greatest creation.
Book Synopsis Cave Paintings to Picasso by : Henry M. Sayre
Download or read book Cave Paintings to Picasso written by Henry M. Sayre and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From prehistoric paintings to Andy Warhol's works, this book pairs full-color reproductions of 50 of the world's most celebrated masterpieces with brief, kid-accessible stories about how they were made, who made them, and where they fit in the fascinating world of art.
Book Synopsis Tools and Treasures of Ancient Egypt by : Matt Doeden
Download or read book Tools and Treasures of Ancient Egypt written by Matt Doeden and published by Lerner Publications ™. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever heard of hieroglyphics? Do you know what a mummy is? All these things came from ancient Egypt. More than four thousand years ago, the ancient Egyptians created tools and treasures that still shape our lives. Find out where the ancient Egyptians lived, what their lives were like, and what happened to them. Discover how they changed the world!
Book Synopsis Merchants and Masterpieces by : Calvin Tomkins
Download or read book Merchants and Masterpieces written by Calvin Tomkins and published by Henry Holt. This book was released on 1989 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully written and newly revised to include the museum's most controversial era, this sparkling social history reveals the ideas and financial power behind the Metropolitan's dramatic 12-year history. Photos.
Download or read book DISCOVERY written by Thomas Hoving and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2015-06-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Masterpiece comes the story of a thrilling quest for riches as glamourous New Yorkers Olivia and Andrew Foster return on a mission to uncover the treasures of a lost Roman Empire city. When the globe-trotting curators of the Metropolitan Museum of Art are on sabbatical in the golden hills of Naples, Olivia and Andrew Foster make the archaeological discovery of a lifetime. Tipped off by an eccentric art collector and connoisseur and aided by an arsenal of high-tech archaeological tools, the Fosters unearth one of the most intriguing discoveries yet to be found. Just as they thought they’d seen it all, Olivia and Andrew uncover the lost city of Herculaneum and all of the ghosts and jewels that were buried with it. But as they come upon the discovery that will change their lives forever, the Fosters are faced with a challenge that makes them realize why all other efforts to uncover the legendary treasures have led to disappointment—or death.
Book Synopsis Computer Monsters by : Stephen Manes
Download or read book Computer Monsters written by Stephen Manes and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth by : Andrew Wyeth
Download or read book Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth written by Andrew Wyeth and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an intimate and profound portrait of American visual artist Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009). Known primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style, Wyeth was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century. Here the author elicits extended and revealing dialogue from Wyeth, revealing the philosophy, techniques, and spirit of his art.
Book Synopsis Ignite the Power of Art by : Bonnie Pitman
Download or read book Ignite the Power of Art written by Bonnie Pitman and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dallas Museum of Art undertook a groundbreaking seven-year research initiative to answer these questions. The findings, published in Ignite the Power of Art, support a new understanding of art museum visitors based on their differing preferences, behaviors, and interactions with art. The publication describes how these studies have been used at the Dallas Museum of Art to build attendance. enhance exhibitions and collections, and develop new programs such as the Center for Creative Connections, the online Arts Network, and the Late Nights event series. The book also shows how this research has transformed the Museum, unleashing a profound change in institutional thinking and paving the way for sustained innovation. Also included are contributions by community leaders who offer their perspectives and insights on the Dallas Museum of Art's remarkable revitalization. --Book Jacket.
Book Synopsis Painting for the Gods by : Bolaji Campbell
Download or read book Painting for the Gods written by Bolaji Campbell and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on indigenous painting traditions found on ancestral shrines of Yoruba divinities known as Orisa. The devotional activity of Orisa painting is often enacted in honour and veneration of departed ancestors for healing, empowerment and transformation, and continues to find expression today in the creative works of contemporary artists who have been influenced by this enduring traditional art far beyond the shores of Yorubaland. The book examines 16 shrine paintings found in both rural and urban centres.
