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Phaidon Press
October 2011
On Sale: October 17, 2011
992 pages
ISBN: 0714856525
EAN: 9780714856520
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The Art Museum is the finest art collection ever assembled
between two covers. This revolutionary and unprecedented
virtual art museum in a book, features 1,000 oversized pages
of over 2,500 works of art. It is the most comprehensive and
visually spectacular history of world art ever published.
Ten years in the making, this unique book was created with a
global team of 100 specialists in art history, who have
collected together important works as they might be
displayed in the ideal museum for the art lover. Unrestricted by the constraints of physical space, this
volume contains an unprecedented wealth of masterworks
spanning three millennia and culled from 650 museums,
galleries and private collections from 60 countries to tell
the history of world art. It is organized by innovative
color-coded ?galleries,? ?rooms, ?corridors? and ?special
exhibitions? which display the paintings, sculptures,
frescos, photographs, tapestries, friezes, installations,
performances, videos, woodblock prints, folding screens,
ceramics and manuscripts that tell the history of world art.
This is the only museum to house Leonardo?s Mona Lisa, a
collection of Rembrandt?s finest self portraits, Velázquez?s
Las Meninas and Picasso?s Guernica, as well as ceramics from
China, Hokusai?s woodblock prints, gold artefacts from Peru,
and works by Jackson Pollock in one place. With intelligent in-depth text throughout, explanatory
labels for each artwork, a comprehensive glossary and
detailed location maps, The Art Museum, is accessible for
everyone from casual art fans to experts in the field.
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