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MFA Highlights

MFA Highlights: European Painting and Sculpture before 1800
MFA Highlights: European Painting and Sculpture before 1800
Text by Frederick Ilchman, Ronni Baer, Marietta Cambareri, Courtney Leigh Harris, Katie Hanson, Anna C. Knapp.

The tremendous political, religious and cultural changes that swept across Europe in the years from 1000 to 1800 fundamentally transformed the practices and purposes of painting and sculpture—from elaborately carved and gilded medieval Christian altars >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468782
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Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 200 pgs / 145 color.
Pub Date: 02/16/2021 In stock


MFA Highlights: Arts of South Asia
MFA Highlights: Arts of South Asia
By Laura Weinstein.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is home to an important collection of artworks from South Asia that spans a large geographical area—comprising India and the countries that surround it—and more than four millennia. Among >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468720
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Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 184 pgs / 125 color.
Pub Date: 08/04/2020 In stock


MFA Highlights: Arts of Africa
MFA Highlights: Arts of Africa
Text by Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch.

The African art collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, offers a portal into the life and politics of a large and complex continent with a wealth of history and culture. The highlighted works >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468645
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Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 192 pgs / 125 color.
Pub Date: 11/26/2019 In stock


Arts of Ancient Nubia: MFA Highlights
Arts of Ancient Nubia: MFA Highlights
Text by Denise M. Doxey.

Ancient Nubia was home to a series of civilizations between the sixth millennium BCE and 350 CE that produced towering monuments, including more pyramids than in neighboring Egypt, and artifacts of enduring beauty and significance. >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468539
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Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 168 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 09/25/2018 In stock


European Painting and Sculpture After 1800
European Painting and Sculpture After 1800
Text by Emily A. Beeny, Marietta Cambareri. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, houses an internationally renowned collection of modern European painting and sculpture, including such masterpieces as Renoir’s "Dance at Bougival," Gauguin’s "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468409
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Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 208 pgs / 125 color.
Pub Date: 07/26/2016 In stock


Contemporary Art: MFA Highlights
Contemporary Art: MFA Highlights
Text by Al Miner, Liz Munsell, Edward Saywell, Emily Zilber. Contemporary art is a vast and complex field representing artists, ideas and trends from every imaginable cultural and geographical background. This book introduces the art of our times by taking the reader through a tour >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468164
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Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 176 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 01/26/2016 In stock


European Decorative Arts
European Decorative Arts
Text by Thomas Michie. The world-renowned collection of European decorative arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is full of sumptuous surprises. The objects range from an opulent automaton to a richly wrought crozier, and vary in scale >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468225
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Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / 126 color.
Pub Date: 01/27/2015 In stock


Arts of China: MFA Highlights
Arts of China: MFA Highlights
Text by Hiromi Kinoshita. The Chinese art collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is one of the finest outside East Asia, with particularly superb holdings of paintings and ceramics, along with important sculptures, bronzes and examples of >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467891
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Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 184 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2013 Out of stock


Photography: MFA Highlights
Photography: MFA Highlights
Text by Anne Havinga, Karen Haas, Nancy Keeler. This latest volume in the MFA Highlights series showcases over 100 stunning photographs from the museum's collection. An extensive introductory essay traces the aesthetic and technical history of photography as an art form, from the >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878466764
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Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 224 pgs/ illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 08/01/2007 In stock


Conservation: MFA Highlights
Conservation: MFA Highlights
Text by Richard Newman. Though conservation plays a decisive role in the public's experience of artworks in museums, visitors are often unaware of what it takes to keep them vibrant, intact and in some cases existent, and until now >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467297
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Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 200 pgs / 150 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2011 In stock


Arts of Korea: MFA Highlights
Arts of Korea: MFA Highlights
Text by Jane Portal, Suhyung Kim. Arts of Korea celebrates historical Korean art through 100 works from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The MFA has one of the finest collections of Korean art outside of East Asia, >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467884
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Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 176 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2013 In stock


American Paintings: MFA Highlights
American Paintings: MFA Highlights
Text by Janet Comey, Elliot Davis, Karen Quinn, Ellen Roberts, Carol Troyen, Erica Hirshler. New Series MFA Highlights presents the best of the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in a new series of accessible, uniform paperback volumes. The aim of the series is threefold: to highlight >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878466603
US $19.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE
Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 288 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 09/02/2003 Not available


Musical Instruments: MFA Highlights
Musical Instruments: MFA Highlights
Essay by Darcy Kuronen. Musical instruments are among the most meaningful artifacts produced by humankind, a marriage of technology, artistry, symbolism, religion and entertainment. Musical Instruments presents over 100 examples from the MFA's world-renowned collection, spanning a breadth of >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878466740
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Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 256 pgs / 120 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/02/2004 In stock


Native American Art: MFA Highlights
Native American Art: MFA Highlights
Edited by Gerald W.R. Ward. The collection of Native American artworks is one of the hidden treasures of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with some of its finest objects seldom displayed to ensure their preservation. This volume presents 100 >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467518
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Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 192 pgs / 120 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/31/2010 In stock


Arts of Japan: MFA Highlights
Arts of Japan: MFA Highlights
Edited by Anne Nishimura Morse. The MFA's holdings of Japanese art make up the finest and most comprehensive collection outside of Japan. This stunning overview features many of the collection's best-known and most beloved works, including such rare paintings as >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467143
US $24.95 CAN $33.95 TRADE
Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 320 pgs / 175 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/01/2008 In stock


Classical Art: MFA HIghlights
Classical Art: MFA HIghlights
Edited by Christine Kondoleon. Text by Richard Grossmann, Jennifer L. Heuser. Ancient Greek, Roman and Etruscan civilizations come to life in this illustrated selection of 100 highlights from the famous collections of classical art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. An introduction by curator Christine >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467280
US $22.50 CAN $31.00 TRADE
Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 240 pgs / 130 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/16/2008 In stock