Rendez-Vous with Art - Martin Gayford

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Résumé :
This book is about how we experience art, how we look at it, how we think about it. It is structured in the form of a series of conversations in some of the best-known museums in the world, but also outside the museums, where we often look upon art in a completely different way. The two protagonists are Philippe de Montebello, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for 31 years to 2008, and the art critic Martin Gayford. In the process, both men convey, with subtlety and brilliance, the delights and significance of their subject matter....

Biographie:
Philippe de Montebello is the longest-serving director in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's history. His retirement in 2008 was described as the end of an era 'in the cultural life of the city, the state, the nation, and the world'. He is a member of the Acad?mie des Beaux-Arts and an Officier de la L?gion d'Honneur, and has a worldwide influence on cultural policies, often in an advisory capacity. He is now Fiske Kimball Professor at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts and an Honorary Trustee of the Prado Museum....

Sommaire:
Preface ? Introduction: Yellow Jasper Lips at the Met ? 1. Afternoon in Florence ? 2. A Flood and a Chimera ? 3. Immersed in the Bargello ? 4. A Sense of Place ? 5. The Case of the Duccio Madonna ? 6. In the Met Caf?: A Biographical Interlude ? 7. Princely Collections ? 8. An Artistic Education Sentimentale ? 9. Lost in the Louvre ? 10. Crowds and the Power of Art: A Transatlantic Conversation ? 11. In the Prado ? 12. Hieronymus Bosch and the Hell of Looking at Art with Other People ? 13. Titian and Vel?zquez ? 14. Las Meninas ? 15. Goya: An Excursion ? 16. Rubens, Tiepolo, Goya Again ? 17. Rotterdam: Museums and their Discontents ? 18. Star-Spotting at the Mauritshuis ? 19. Where Do You Put It? ? 20. Exploring the Jungles of Paris ? 21. Hunting Lions at the British Museum ? 22. Lunch in the Great Court ? 23. Fragments...