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Beyond Words
Featuring illuminated manuscripts from nineteen Boston-area institutions, Beyond Words provides a sweeping overview of the history of the book in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as well as a guide to its production, illumination, functions, and readership. With over 150 manuscripts on display, Manuscripts for Pleasure & Piety at the McMullen Museum focuses on lay readership and the place of books in medieval society. The High Middle Ages witnessed an affirmation of the visual and, with it, empirical experience. There was an explosion of illumination. Various types of images, whether in prayer or professional books, attest to the newfound importance of visual demonstration in matters of faith and science alike."--
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
"This book takes you through the collection gallery by gallery, illuminating the art and installations in each room"--From preface.
Nature's Mirror
Issued in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, September 10-December 10, 2017.
Secular Sacred
"Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title at the McMullen Museum of Art from February 19 to June 4, 2006, this volume explores multiple ways in which medieval and early modern objects communicated both sacred and secular messages to their audiences. Focusing on paintings, illuminated texts, tapestries, silks, sculptures, ceramics and metalwork, many previously unpublished, from the collections of two distinguished Boston institutions, the authors of the volume's thirteen essays take an inventive and interdisciplinary approach to the study of the subjects, functions, and receptions of works of art from the eleventh through the sixteenth century. By re-thinking scholars' traditional division of objects into secular and sacred categories and by examining the history of these classifications, the authors decode images from various perspectives, revealing how lines between the two categories blur for individual works."--BOOK JACKET.
Art Museums Plus
An engaging guide to over 150 art museums and more throughout New England
Beyond Words
In the fall of 2016 an international scholarly conference accompanied the exhibition Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. The speakers were chosen because of their expertise and because they were known to have research underway pertaining to important manuscripts in the exhibition. The aim of both exhibition and conference was to provide a broad overview of the history of patronage and book production over the course of the High and late Middle Ages, to the extent that the eclectic holdings of Boston-area institutions permitted. Most of the papers delivered at the conference have been collected as essays in this abundantly illustrated volume which, while still linked ...
Paul Klee
"Paul Klee: Philosophical Vision, From Nature to Art is the first exhibition and catalogue to focus on the relationship between philosophy and Klee's prolific artistic oeuvre, and to reveal the broad impact the artist has hadon recent philosophical thought. The catalogue demonstrates how Klee's groundbreaking theories-of nature, words, and music as developed in his writings and lectures-are translated into form, line, and color in his works of art. Paul Klee: Philosophical Vision includes essays contributed by fifteen distinguished philosophers and art historians. It features color reproductions of each work in the exhibition as well as a new translation of Klee's famous lecture, ''On Modern Art.''" -- Publisher's description.
Edvard Munch
"My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are?"—Edvard Munch Published in conjunction with a major exhibit at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College, Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol and Expression includes nine essays from scholars representing a variety of disciplines. From themes of love, sexuality, gender and anxiety to comparisons with Ibsen and Kierkegaard, the catalog explores the meanings of Munch's imagery, his sources in Symbolist art, and his legacy for German Expressionism within the context of his contemporaries' developments in psychology, literature, and philosophy. The volume of over 200 pages includes more than 60 color plates and 130 black and white illustrations, many from rarely seen private collections and some never exhibited before.
A People's Guide to Greater Boston
"Herein, we bring you to sites that have been central to the lives of 'the people' of Greater Boston over four centuries. You'll visit sites associated with the area's indigenous inhabitants and with the individuals and movements who sought to abolish slavery, to end war, challenge militarism, and bring about a more peaceful world, to achieve racial equity, gender justice, and sexual liberation, and to secure the rights of workers. We take you to some well-known sites, but more often to ones far off the well-beaten path of the Freedom Trail, to places in Boston's outlying neighborhoods. We also visit sites in numerous other municipalities that make up the Greater Boston region-from places su...
Eaglemania
"This publication is issued in conjunction with the exhibition 'Eaglemania: Collecting Japanese art in Gilded Age America' in the Daley Family Gallery at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, February 11-June 2, 2019"--Title page verso.
