The Art Museum

Explore the world’s most captivating and comprehensive art collection without leaving your home with this remarkable book. Serving as a boundless museum, this edition of Phaidon’s popular "The Art Museum" replicates the rich experience of visiting an art gallery, eliminating the constraints of geography and time. Within its pages, more than 1,600 masterpieces unfold, covering a diverse range of mediums such as paintings, sculptures, textiles, photographs, installations, performances, videos, prints, ceramics, manuscripts, metalwork, and jewelwork. A team of 28 esteemed curators, critics, art historians, and artists meticulously curated this collection, adding their renowned expertise to construct an unparalleled 'virtual' museum. Contributors hail from esteemed institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the British Museum in London, the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, the University of California, Berkeley, LaTrobe University in Melbourne, the School of African and Oriental Studies at the University of London, and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Spanning works from the Palaeolithic era to the modern day, this tome features pieces from across the globe, ranging from the iconic to the rare and underappreciated. Through its pages, readers embark on an inspiring journey through time and space, witnessing the pinnacle of human artistic achievement in a majestic collection that transcends typical museum walls.