Modern Design in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1890-1990 - Hardcover

Miller, R. Craig

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810936127 ISBN 13: 9780810936126

Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1990

Synopsis

The exceptional and wide-ranging modern design collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, are virtually unpublished and rarely on view. For this handsomely produced book, R. Craig Miller, the museum's curator of modern design, has selected 130 masterworks, each of which has been specially photographed in full color. 250 illustrations.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Intended to showcase items not on permanent display, this volume chronicles the evolution of the design collection at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Design, also known as applied, industrial or decorative art, is defined here as work conceived by a designer and manufactured in a limited edition. Miller, curator of modern design at the Denver Art Museum, provides an informative, if dry, introductory text emphasizing key curatorial figures and important exhibitions in the Metropolitan's history. Significant art movements of the past 100 years are represented by examples of glass, ceramics, metalwork, lighting, textiles, costume, architectural and decorative drawings and furniture forms; more than half of the 360 illustrations of some 125 masterworks are in color. An armchair tour of the museum's collection, this overview provides a basic description of trends in the applied arts during the last century.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0810936127
• ISBN 13: 9780810936126
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304