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Surrounded by art : panoramic views of America's landmark museums / Thomas R. Schiff.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Rizzoli Electa, 2019Description: 221 pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 33 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780847866885
  • 0847866882
Other title:
  • Panoramic views of America's landmark museums
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Contents:
Introduction / Nina Rappaport -- Interview: Raphaela Platow and Tom Schiff in conversation.
Summary: "In sweeping tableaux, photographer Thomas R. Schiff presents, America's most important art museums, using breathtaking photographs that compels us to revisit historic and modern cultural institutions and their storied rooms in a genuinely new light. Schiff skillfully combines his love of photography and architecture and profiles museums of all sizes and stripes across the country, showcasing the country's most stately institutions and newer cutting-edge buildings and building additions including Museums of Fine Arts, Boston; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; and Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO; among many others. Schiff's fresh, dynamic photographs are sure to appeal to architecture, museum, and art lovers alike."--Jacket flap.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Beautifully composed panoramic photographs that showcase the iconic interiors and exteriors in the great museums and cultural institutions of the United States from a singular visual perspective.

In sweeping tableaux, photographer Tom Schiff presents America's most important art museums, using breathtaking images that compel us to revisit historic and modern cultural institutions and their storied rooms in a genuinely new light. Schiff skillfully combines his love of photography and architecture to profile museums of all sizes and stripes from across the country, from the most stately institutions to newer cutting-edge buildings and building additions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, among others. Museum Architecture and Schiff's fresh, dynamic photographs are sure to appeal to architecture, museum, and art lovers alike.

"Surrounded by art: panoramic views of America's landmark museums is published in conjunction with Tom Schiff's exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, from November 22, 2019 through March 1, 2020"--Colophon.

"In sweeping tableaux, photographer Thomas R. Schiff presents, America's most important art museums, using breathtaking photographs that compels us to revisit historic and modern cultural institutions and their storied rooms in a genuinely new light. Schiff skillfully combines his love of photography and architecture and profiles museums of all sizes and stripes across the country, showcasing the country's most stately institutions and newer cutting-edge buildings and building additions including Museums of Fine Arts, Boston; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; and Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO; among many others. Schiff's fresh, dynamic photographs are sure to appeal to architecture, museum, and art lovers alike."--Jacket flap.

Introduction / Nina Rappaport -- Interview: Raphaela Platow and Tom Schiff in conversation.

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