Harvard Art Museum Handbook by Stephan Wolohojian
With some 280,000 objects, the Harvard Art Museum is the largest university art museum in the United States. Its Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler museums feature world-renowned collections of archaic Chinese jades and bronzes, Italian Renaissance paintings, and nineteenth-century art, along with remarkable holdings of prints, drawings, photographs, and Bauhaus and German expressionist works, making it one of the most distinguished museums in the world. This first handbook of the collections surveys their full scope, from early-Egyptian bronzes and Chinese ceramics to contemporary paintings and prints. Familiar works by Pollock, Picasso, Dürer, Van Gogh, and other well-known artists are presented along with extraordinary Persian miniatures, rare photographic prints, important Greek coins, and African sculpture. Each work is fully illustrated in color and introduced with a brief, engaging text. This elegantly designed book not only offers an appealing and accessible presentation of some of the Harvard Art Museum’s most significant works, but also introduces readers to other resources at the Museums, such as the Straus Center for Conservation, as well as to the artist archives that are housed there.
The book, edited by Stephan Wolohojian and published by the museum, presents some of the best-loved works along with lesser-known pieces from Harvard's collection of nearly 300,000 itemsThe survey moves in chronological order, beginning with Egyptian statuettes of lion-headed deities dating from about 664 BC to a recent mixed-media work by Ellen Gallagher that incorporates images of pharaohs and a fur-trimmed spaceship. -- Jan Gardner * Boston Globe *
Stephan Wolohojian is Landon and Lavinia Clay Curator and Head of Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts at the Harvard Art Museums.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781891771507 |
| ISBN 10 | 1891771507 |
| Title | Harvard Art Museum Handbook |
| Author | Stephan Wolohojian |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Art Museums,U.S. |
| Year published | 2008-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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