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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.Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #179 in Books
- Published on: 2011-10-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 2.80" h x 13.70" w x 18.70" l, 19.05 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 992 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"A category killer? Packed with 3,000 large illustrations of the world's greatest artworks."-VOGUE
"The dream collection... The appeal of having 3,000 years of masterpieces at your fingertips is obvious."Art & Auction
"If this [The Art Museum] were a real museum and not just a book, there would hardly be need for another."-NPR's "All Things Considered"
"If the world's best curators could create a collection containing every notable work for all time, its catalog would resemble The Art Museum."- Conde Nast Traveler
"?an original and compelling concept: a book conceived and organized to resemble a museum?one that happens to take readers on a tour of art history from King Tut to Jackson Pollack and beyond."- Worth magazineTraveler
"The 2,500 works that really matter in 1,000 stunning pages."- Reader's Digest
About the Author
Conceived and edited by Phaidon editors, with a consulting global team of specialists in all fields of art.
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