The Power of Prints: The Legacy of William M. Ivins and A. Hyatt Mayor

by Peter Parshall and Freyda Spira

Metropolitan Museum curators William M. Ivins and his prot?g? A. Hyatt Mayor not only assembled a vast collection of prints, from Renaissance masterworks to ephemeral works, but also expanded the appreciation of prints as aesthetic objects, socio-historical documents, and tools of communication. More radically, by discussing these prints in accessible language, they changed our notions of how art reaches the wider public. Drawing on previously unpublished...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588395855
• ISBN13: 9781588395856
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.5" x 9.1"