Master Pieces The Curator's Game

Name: Master Pieces The Curator's Game
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ISBN: 9780393328387

ISBN-10: 0393328384

ISBN-13: 9780393328387

Edition: 2005

Authors: Thomas Hoving, Kate Learson, Lori Stein

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A stunning visual game that helps readers enjoy, appreciate, and identify great works of art. As director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a decade, Thomas Hoving brought art to a new level of public awareness by pioneering such blockbuster shows as the King Tut exhibit. Early in his career, Hoving was introduced to the "curator's game." Each week, he and his contemporaries met to examine details of larger museum masterpieces. Whoever correctly identified the detail in context won free coffee: the losers paid. In an imaginative adaptation of this exercise, Hoving introduces us to the challenge and the fun of identifying art, and to the rewards of familiarity with the great works. A…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 0.75" wide x 0.93" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, also served as editor of Connoisseur and cultural correspondent for ABC's "20/20." The author of fifteen books, including the bestsellers Making the Mummies Dance and Tutankhamun, he lives in New York City.



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