This book is about how we experience art, how we look at it, how we think about it. It is structured in the form of a series of conversations in some of the best-known museums in the world, but also outside the museums, where we often look upon art in a completely different way. The two protagonists are Philippe de Montebello, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for 31 years to 2008, and the art critic Martin Gayford. In the process, both men convey, with subtlety and brilliance, the delights and significance of their subject matter.
This book is about how we experience art, how we look at it, how we think about it. It is structured in the form of a series of conversations in some of the best-known museums in the world, but also outside the museums, where we often look upon art in a completely different way. The two protagonists are Philippe de Montebello, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for 31 years to 2008, and the art critic Martin Gayford. In the process, both men convey, with subtlety and brilliance, the delights and significance of their subject matter.
Philippe de Montebello is the longest-serving director in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's history. His retirement in 2008 was described as the end of an era 'in the cultural life of the city, the state, the nation, and the world'. He is a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and an Officier de la Légion d'Honneur, and has a worldwide influence on cultural policies, often in an advisory capacity. He is now Fiske Kimball Professor at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts and an Honorary Trustee of the Prado Museum.
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Preface Introduction: Yellow Jasper Lips at the Met 1. Afternoon in Florence 2. A Flood and a Chimera 3. Immersed in the Bargello 4. A Sense of Place 5. The Case of the Duccio Madonna 6. In the Met Café: A Biographical Interlude 7. Princely Collections 8. An Artistic Education Sentimentale 9. Lost in the Louvre 10. Crowds and the Power of Art: A Transatlantic Conversation 11. In the Prado 12. Hieronymus Bosch and the Hell of Looking at Art with Other People 13. Titian and Velázquez 14. Las Meninas 15. Goya: An Excursion 16. Rubens, Tiepolo, Goya Again 17. Rotterdam: Museums and their Discontents 18. Star-Spotting at the Mauritshuis 19. Where Do You Put It? 20. Exploring the Jungles of Paris 21. Hunting Lions at the British Museum 22. Lunch in the Great Court 23. Fragments
Preface Introduction: Yellow Jasper Lips at the Met 1. Afternoon in Florence 2. A Flood and a Chimera 3. Immersed in the Bargello 4. A Sense of Place 5. The Case of the Duccio Madonna 6. In the Met Café: A Biographical Interlude 7. Princely Collections 8. An Artistic Education Sentimentale 9. Lost in the Louvre 10. Crowds and the Power of Art: A Transatlantic Conversation 11. In the Prado 12. Hieronymus Bosch and the Hell of Looking at Art with Other People 13. Titian and Velázquez 14. Las Meninas 15. Goya: An Excursion 16. Rubens, Tiepolo, Goya Again 17. Rotterdam: Museums and their Discontents 18. Star-Spotting at the Mauritshuis 19. Where Do You Put It? 20. Exploring the Jungles of Paris 21. Hunting Lions at the British Museum 22. Lunch in the Great Court 23. Fragments
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