{"product_id":"metropolitan-museum-of-art-small-sculptures-in-bronze-1950","title":"SMALL SCULPTURES IN BRONZE — Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1950","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1950. Staple-bound picture book in printed paper wrappers, 34 pages, 18.5 × 25 cm. Illustrated throughout with monochrome photographic reproductions of bronze sculpture from antiquity through the Renaissance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book belongs to an early post-war expansion of museum publishing in which collections were translated into inexpensive, portable sequences of images. Bronze becomes halftone. Scale becomes pagination. Objects held within the museum re-enter circulation as paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeither exhibition catalogue nor general art history, the publication functions as a reduced museum: thirty-four pages through which sculpture could travel independently of the collection that authorised it. Its worn wrappers retain evidence of that secondary movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good. Age toning, marks and handling wear to wrappers; creasing and rubbing at edges and corners; small area of paper loss to lower rear wrapper. Internally generally clean, with occasional light handling marks. The visible wear records the publication's continued use and retention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Metropolitan Museum of Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54067003294034,"sku":"MET-METMUS-CAT-1950","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_New_York_N.Y._._Small_Sculptures_in_Bronze._1950_1b590730-2639-4db3-9040-2f9621ce6f9c.jpg?v=1784746090","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/metropolitan-museum-of-art-small-sculptures-in-bronze-1950","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}