Title:
Museum masterpieces the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author:
Brettell, Richard R.
Publication Information:
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2008]
©2008
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook.
Summary:
Professor Richard Brettell, the Margaret McDermott Distinguished Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Texas at Dallas, presents the history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the largest art museum in the US, and introduces several of its collections.
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In two containers.
Language:
English
Contents:
pt. 1. disc 1. Lecture 1 : the making of the museum ; Lecture 2 : the art of ancient Greece and Rome ; Lecture 3 : ancient Egyptian art ; Lecture 4 : Asian art ; Lecture 5 : the ancient Near East and Islamic art ; Lecture 6 : European painting I : the Renaissance ; disc 2. Lecture 7 : European painting II : 16th-17th centuries ; Lecture 8 : European painting III : 18th century ; Lecture 9 : European painting IV : 19th century ; Lecture 10 : drawings and prints ; Lecture 11 : Photographs ; Lecture 12 : European decorative arts -- pt. 2. disc 3. Lecture 13 : European sculpture ; Lecture 14 : the arts of Africa and Oceania ; Lecture 15 : the ancient New World ; Lecture 16 : musical instruments and arms and armor ; Lecture 17 : costumes and textiles ; Lecture 18 : American art : 1650-1865.
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ISBN:
9781598033908
