Most Helpful Customer Reviews: The Art Museum (Hardcover)
Product Description
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #6847 in Books
- Published on: 2011-10-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 2.80" h x 13.70" w x 18.70" l, 19.05 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 992 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"A difficulty killer. Packed with 3,000 vast illustrations of a world's biggest artworks."- VOGUE
"The dream collection...The interest of carrying 3,000 years of masterpieces during your fingertips is obvious."- Art & Auction
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"The 2,500 works that unequivocally matter in 1,000 overwhelming pages."- Reader's Digest
"The beast of all Christmas art books, this year and maybe for a while...this book is crowded of things we don't mostly see reproduced on this scale, and other things we might not even know about and will adore on sight."- The New York Times
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"If someone asks you, 'What is art?' we could launch into a lecture. Or we could usually palm them this battering impel of a book."- Entertainment Weekly
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"The boldest edition examination of 2011."- NPR
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". . . this is a unique, beautifully printed, gasp-inducing tour by Stone Age relics, Gothic manuscripts, Hokusai's woodblock prints, Picasso's domestic paintings and Pollack's evocative splattering. Every page contains something to make we stop and stare."- The Huffington Post
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Conceived and edited by Phaidon editors, with a consulting tellurian group of specialists in all fields of art.
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