Obtain 1,600+ Publications from the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork: Books, Guides, Magazines & Extra

Many people in these previous few gen­er­a­tions first heard of the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Muse­um of Artwork whereas learn­ing E. L. Konigs­burg’s nov­el From the Blended-Up Recordsdata of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweil­er. Various of us additionally fan­ta­sized about run­ning away to stay in that huge cul­tur­al insti­tu­tion just like the guide’s younger professional­tag­o­nists Clau­dia and Jamie Kin­caid. But amongst oth­er, extra prac­ti­cal con­cerns, we’d have gained­dered the place we had been going to safe sufficient learn­ing mate­r­i­al to get us by way of these lengthy after-hours nights. Konigs­burg had Clau­dia and Jamie vis­it the for­mer Don­nell Library Cen­ter, however what about within the Met itself?

What we prob­a­bly did­n’t actual­ize in our youth was that, in addi­tion to being a muse­um, the Met is a pub­lish­er. Now, on the Met­Pub­li­ca­tions dig­i­tal archive, we will learn an awesome vari­ety of the books, guides, and peri­od­i­cals it’s put out for greater than a century–from a 1911 cat­a­log of the muse­um’s col­lec­tion of pot­tery, porce­lain, and faïence (which refers to pot­tery of the tin-glazed vari­ety) to — as of this writ­ing — the lat­est subject of the Met’s Bul­letin, on Mex­i­can print­mak­ers includ­ing Diego Rivera and José Clemente Oroz­co. They and the greater than 1,600 pub­li­ca­tions that lie between them are free so that you can discover, some learn­ready on-line, and a few down­load­ready in PDF type.

You would possibly discover problems with the Bul­letin on each­factor from Frank Lloyd Wright to inter­warfare pho­tog­ra­phy to Kore­an artwork, in addition to cat­a­logs for exhi­bi­tions like Anglo­Ma­nia: Tra­di­tion and Trans­gres­sion in British Fash­ion, The Artwork of Illu­mi­na­tion: The Lim­bourg Broth­ers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry (whose cen­tral work of cal­en­dri­cal artwork was pre­vi­ous­ly fea­tured right here on Open Cul­ture), Van Gogh in Arles, The Milk­maid by Johannes Ver­meer, and The Poet­ry of Nature: Edo Paint­ings from the Fish­bein-Ben­der Col­lec­tion. Met­Pub­li­ca­tions affords plen­ty of inter­est­ing learn­ing, however when you discover you sud­den­ly need to do some seri­ous art-his­tor­i­cal analysis, you’ll additionally discover that it’s a much more con­ve­nient useful resource than Clau­dia and Jamie had.

Enter the Met­Pub­li­ca­tions dig­i­tal archive right here, and, as soon as there, par­tic­u­lar­ly discover the “Free to Down­load” sec­tion.

Relat­ed con­tent:

The Met­ro­pol­i­tan Muse­um of Artwork Places 490,000 Excessive-Res Pictures On-line & Makes Them Free to Use

Take a New Vir­tu­al Actual­i­ty Tour of the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Muse­um of Artwork

An Unbe­liev­ably Detailed, Hand-Drawn Map Lets You Discover the Wealthy Col­lec­tions of the Met Muse­um

A World of Artwork: The Met­ro­pol­i­tan Muse­um of Artwork

Based mostly in Seoul, Col­in Marshall writes and broad­casts on cities, lan­guage, and cul­ture. His initiatives embrace the Sub­stack newslet­ter Books on Cities and the guide The State­much less Metropolis: a Stroll by way of Twenty first-Cen­tu­ry Los Ange­les. Fol­low him on Twit­ter at @colinmarshall or on Face­guide.