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Price: $28.95
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Sale: $7.90
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Manufacturer: Touchstone
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Hoving
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Publisher: Touchstone
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Dewey Decimal Number: 709.2
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Publication Date: 1994-02-15
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: A former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art reveals his bold and brash life at its pinnacle: the clandestine deals which secured blockbuster exhibitions for the museum and made him a legend. Photos.
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $5.69
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Manufacturer: Smithsonian
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Turtleback
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Author: Smithsonian
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Publisher: Smithsonian
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069.09753
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Reading Level: 221
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Description: The Smithsonian Institution, the largest museum complex in the world, holds more than 142 million artifacts and specimens in its trust. This colorful guide to the eight museums and galleries on the National Mall, five more in the Washington metropolitan area, two in New York City, and the National Zoo presents an enormous amount of history and pertinent museum information, ensuring a rewarding visit. Each detailed section presents the history of each museum and offers a fully illustrated, gallery-by-gallery tour. All the practical information-location, hours, phone numbers, public transportation, services, tours, dining, gift shops, special attractions for children, Web site addresses-is also included. This strudy guide has been accessibly produces by the Smithsonian's award-winning designers and is beautifully photographed throughout in full color.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $16.95
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Manufacturer: Smithsonian
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Steven D. Lavine
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Publisher: Smithsonian
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069.5
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Publication Date: 1991-05-17
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Reading Level: 480
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $9.49
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Manufacturer: Smithsonian
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Bay Ap
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Publisher: Smithsonian
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069.09753
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Publication Date: 1996-07-17
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Reading Level: 155
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Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Description: From Dorothy's red slippers to the Wright brothers plane, the Smithsonian is filled with objects fascinating to kids. Yet choosing what to see in the nation's largest museum complex can challenge even the most enthusiastic families. Packed with information and pictures, this lively new guide offers eight to 12-year-olds a way to navigate the Smithsonian. 250 full color illustrations.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $9.77
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Hoving
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Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Dewey Decimal Number: 750.7
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Publication Date: 2005-12-18
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: A stunning visual game that helps readers enjoy, appreciate, and identify great works of art.
As director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a decade, Thomas Hoving brought art to a new level of public awareness by pioneering such blockbuster shows as the King Tut exhibit. Early in his career, Hoving was introduced to the "curator's game." Each week, he and his contemporaries met to examine details of larger museum masterpieces. Whoever correctly identified the detail in context won free coffee: the losers paid.
In an imaginative adaptation of this exercise, Hoving introduces us to the challenge and the fun of identifying art, and to the rewards of familiarity with the great works. A section of paintings accompanied by brief essays introduces a range of artists, themes, techniques, and styles, while progressively demanding "clues" are provided to help identify visual details in context. No experience is necessary to play this game. Readers at all levels will discover the fun of identifying and remembering great art. 250 color illustrations.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $18.00
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Manufacturer: Smithsonian
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Weil Se
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Publisher: Smithsonian
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069
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Publication Date: 2002-04
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Stephen E. Weil has long been considered one of the museum community's most insightful (and frequently wittiest) commentators. In this volume of twenty-nine recent essays, his overarching concern is that museums be able to "earn their keep"-that they make themselves matter-in an environment of pontentially shrinking resources.
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Manufacturer: Ironwood Pr
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Alison L. Grinder::E. Sue McCoy
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Publisher: Ironwood Pr
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069.1
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Publication Date: 1985-07
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Reading Level: 147
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $15.49
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Brian O'Doherty::Thomas McEvilley
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 701.8
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Publication Date: 2000-01-14
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Reading Level: 113
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Description: When these essays first appeared in Artforum in 1976, their impact was immediate. They were discussed, annotated, cited, collected, and translatedthe three issues of Artforum in which they appeared have become nearly impossible to obtain. Having Brian O'Doherty's provocative essays available again is a signal event for the art world. This edition also includes "The Gallery as Gesture," a critically important piece published ten years after the others. O'Doherty was the first to explicitly confront a particular crisis in postwar art as he sought to examine the assumptions on which the modern commercial and museum gallery was based. Concerned with the complex and sophisticated relationship between economics, social context, and aesthetics as represented in the contested space of the art gallery, he raises the question of how artists must construe their work in relation to the gallery space and system. These essays are essential reading for anyone interested in the history and issues of postwar art in Europe and the United States. Teeming with ideas, relentless in their pursuit of contradiction and paradox, they exhibit both the understanding of the artist (Patrick Ireland) and the precision of the scholar.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $19.95
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: James E. Young
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 900
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Publication Date: 1994-01-25
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Reading Level: 415
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Description: In this study of Holocaust memorials, James E. Young explores both the idea of the monument and its role in public memory, disucssing how every nation remembers the Holocaust according to its own traditions, ideals, and experiences, and how these memorials reflect the ever-evolving meanings of the Holocaust in Europe, Israel and America. The result is a study of Holocaust memory, public art and their fusion in contemporary life.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $9.27
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Manufacturer: PublicAffairs
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Peter Watson::Cecilia Todeschini
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Publisher: PublicAffairs
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.25962
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Publication Date: 2007-06-11
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: Their names are splashed all over the newspapers: Marion True, Robert Hecht, Giacomo Medici. The Medici Conspiracy tells the complete history behind the headlines. The story begins with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight ancient vases are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the vases, however, is the discovery of the smuggler's card index detailing his deals and dealers. It reveals the existence of a web of tomb raiders who steal classical artifacts, and a network of dealers and smugglers who spirit them out of Italy and into the hands of wealthy collectors and museums, including Sothebys, the Getty Museum in L.A., the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Now with a new chapter on the Greek scandal and fallout, The Medici Conspiracy authoritatively exposes another shameful round in one of the oldest games in the world: theft, smuggling and duplicitous dealing, all in the name of art.
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