Earlier this year, the Guggenheim Museum put online 65 modern art books, giving you free access to books introducing the work of Alexander Calder, Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon, Gustav Klimt & Egon Schiele, and Kandinsky. Now, just a few short months later, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has launched MetPublications, a portal that will “eventually offer access to nearly all books, Bulletins, and Journals” published by the Met since 1870.
Of the many resources you can explore, here’s one obvious highlight: MetPublications now makes available 370 out-of-print titles, including lots of informative and visually-packed art catalogs from the museum’s past exhibitions. You can read the books online or download them in PDF format (although I should warn you that the PDF downloads take some time, so be patient). When you rummage around, you’ll come across works like these and more:
- Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain
- American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885–1915
- American Art Posters of the 1890s in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Degas: The Artist’s Mind
- Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomical Drawings from the Royal Library
- Masterpieces of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The Art of Illumination
- Vermeer and the Delft School
- Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Words and Images: Chinese Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting
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I´m artist and art teacher in the American School of Belo Horizonte. I´d like to receive some informations about art and Art Catalogs.
Thanks, so much, Ms Celi
Thanks for letting me know that all of these resources are being made available to the public. I’m going to take full advantage of this! Thanks again!
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