Author: Robert A. M. Stern
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Historical photographs, plans, and elevations document the cultural and artistic flowering in New York.
New York 1900
Author: Robert A. M. Stern
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Historical photographs, plans, and elevations document the cultural and artistic flowering in New York.
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Historical photographs, plans, and elevations document the cultural and artistic flowering in New York.
The Metropolitan Club of New York
Author: Paul Porzelt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Metropolitan Airport
Author: Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812291646
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
John F. Kennedy International Airport is one of New York City's most successful and influential redevelopment projects. Built and defined by outsize personalities—Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, famed urban planner Robert Moses, and Port Authority Executive Director Austin Tobin among them—JFK was fantastically expensive and unprecedented in its scale. By the late 1940s, once-polluted marshlands had become home to one of the world's busiest and most advanced airfields. Almost from the start, however, environmental activists in surrounding neighborhoods and suburbs clashed with the Port Authority. These fierce battles in the long term restricted growth and, compounded by lackluster management and planning, diminished JFK's status and reputation. Yet the airport remained a key contributor to metropolitan vitality: New Yorkers bound for adventure and business still boarded planes headed to distant corners of the globe, billions of tourists and immigrants came and went, and mammoth air cargo facilities bolstered the region's commerce. In The Metropolitan Airport, Nicholas Dagen Bloom chronicles the untold story of JFK International's complicated and turbulent relationship with the New York City metropolitan region. In spite of its reputation for snarled traffic, epic delays, endless construction, and abrasive employees, the airport was a key player in shifting patterns of labor, transportation, and residence; the airport both encouraged and benefited from the dispersion of population and economic activity to the outer boroughs and suburbs. As Bloom shows, airports like JFK are vibrant parts of their cities and powerfully influence urban development. The Metropolitan Airport is an indispensable book for those who wish to understand the revolutionary impact of airports on the modern American city.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812291646
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
John F. Kennedy International Airport is one of New York City's most successful and influential redevelopment projects. Built and defined by outsize personalities—Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, famed urban planner Robert Moses, and Port Authority Executive Director Austin Tobin among them—JFK was fantastically expensive and unprecedented in its scale. By the late 1940s, once-polluted marshlands had become home to one of the world's busiest and most advanced airfields. Almost from the start, however, environmental activists in surrounding neighborhoods and suburbs clashed with the Port Authority. These fierce battles in the long term restricted growth and, compounded by lackluster management and planning, diminished JFK's status and reputation. Yet the airport remained a key contributor to metropolitan vitality: New Yorkers bound for adventure and business still boarded planes headed to distant corners of the globe, billions of tourists and immigrants came and went, and mammoth air cargo facilities bolstered the region's commerce. In The Metropolitan Airport, Nicholas Dagen Bloom chronicles the untold story of JFK International's complicated and turbulent relationship with the New York City metropolitan region. In spite of its reputation for snarled traffic, epic delays, endless construction, and abrasive employees, the airport was a key player in shifting patterns of labor, transportation, and residence; the airport both encouraged and benefited from the dispersion of population and economic activity to the outer boroughs and suburbs. As Bloom shows, airports like JFK are vibrant parts of their cities and powerfully influence urban development. The Metropolitan Airport is an indispensable book for those who wish to understand the revolutionary impact of airports on the modern American city.
Metropolitan Jewelry
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870996169
Category : Jewelry
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
This book highlights pieces of jewellery from ancient and modern cultures in every part of the globe. Of special interest are the objects that appear in paintings and other works of art: jewel-studded gowns, glittering Renaissance brooches and an Egyptian beaded collar are among the featured works from the "Metropolitan Museum"'s collection. Necklaces, earrings, rings and bracelets fill this book and also included are objects of religious significance, military honours and other kinds of personal decoration. The captions relate anecdotes concerning the artists and wearers and describe the history and style of the jewellery pictured.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870996169
Category : Jewelry
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
This book highlights pieces of jewellery from ancient and modern cultures in every part of the globe. Of special interest are the objects that appear in paintings and other works of art: jewel-studded gowns, glittering Renaissance brooches and an Egyptian beaded collar are among the featured works from the "Metropolitan Museum"'s collection. Necklaces, earrings, rings and bracelets fill this book and also included are objects of religious significance, military honours and other kinds of personal decoration. The captions relate anecdotes concerning the artists and wearers and describe the history and style of the jewellery pictured.
New York, Culture Capital of the World, 1940-1965
Author: Dore Ashton
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870991183
Category : Art
Languages : da
Pages : 366
Book Description
"When the Metropolitan Museum came into being in 1870, the founders stressed its role in giving popular instruction. Ever since then its public has expressed interest in obtaining a general guidebook to all the multiple facets of its encyclopedic collections. But a museum is a living, constantly changing institution, and the preparation of such a guide presents many problems. The scope and depth of the Museum's holdings are described with flexibility in mind, so that alterations to the building and changes in the collections can be readily accommodated in future editions of this Guide. The number of pages allocated to each department is restricted to multiples of eight pages; this will permit revisions in future editions. A guidebook, however, should not be a straitjacket. It is impossible to locate accurately all works at all times because paintings and objects are constantly being cleaned, restored, loaned to other museums, or rehung within the Metropolitan. In designing a guide that is easily portable and of interest to a large public, severe restrictions have had to be imposed. The text serves an introductory function and is not intended to give the kind of detailed information found in a catalogue or scholarly publication. Many other books published by the Museum are available to anyone wishing to follow his own special interests: a series of popular handbooks and comprehensive catalogues of various aspects of the collections are available in the Museum's bookshops; the Bulletin of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a general interest magazine covering all phases of Museum activity, appears regularly throughout the year; and the Journal of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a collection of scholarly monographs, is issued annually. An independent guide covers the collection at The Cloisters, our branch museum of medieval art at Fort Tryon Park"--Introduction
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870991183
Category : Art
Languages : da
Pages : 366
Book Description
"When the Metropolitan Museum came into being in 1870, the founders stressed its role in giving popular instruction. Ever since then its public has expressed interest in obtaining a general guidebook to all the multiple facets of its encyclopedic collections. But a museum is a living, constantly changing institution, and the preparation of such a guide presents many problems. The scope and depth of the Museum's holdings are described with flexibility in mind, so that alterations to the building and changes in the collections can be readily accommodated in future editions of this Guide. The number of pages allocated to each department is restricted to multiples of eight pages; this will permit revisions in future editions. A guidebook, however, should not be a straitjacket. It is impossible to locate accurately all works at all times because paintings and objects are constantly being cleaned, restored, loaned to other museums, or rehung within the Metropolitan. In designing a guide that is easily portable and of interest to a large public, severe restrictions have had to be imposed. The text serves an introductory function and is not intended to give the kind of detailed information found in a catalogue or scholarly publication. Many other books published by the Museum are available to anyone wishing to follow his own special interests: a series of popular handbooks and comprehensive catalogues of various aspects of the collections are available in the Museum's bookshops; the Bulletin of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a general interest magazine covering all phases of Museum activity, appears regularly throughout the year; and the Journal of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a collection of scholarly monographs, is issued annually. An independent guide covers the collection at The Cloisters, our branch museum of medieval art at Fort Tryon Park"--Introduction
All the Beauty in the World
Author: Patrick Bringley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982163313
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard"--
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982163313
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard"--
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870997106
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Updated to include new acquisitions, attributions, and reevaluations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870997106
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Updated to include new acquisitions, attributions, and reevaluations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Metropolitan Diary
Author: Ron Alexander
Publisher: William Morrow
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A collection of the anecdotes, observations, light verse, and reminiscences contributed by everyday readers to the Metropolitan Diary column of the New York Times newspaper.
Publisher: William Morrow
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A collection of the anecdotes, observations, light verse, and reminiscences contributed by everyday readers to the Metropolitan Diary column of the New York Times newspaper.
Metropolitan Lives
Author: Rebecca Zurier
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393039016
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
100 greatest works by Bellows, Sloan, and the other painters of the Ashcan School.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393039016
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
100 greatest works by Bellows, Sloan, and the other painters of the Ashcan School.