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Art for Dummies
Thomas Hoving
In this introduction, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Thomas Harding provides 14 chapters on the history of Western Art, shows readers how to begin their own collections,...... read more
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False Impressions
Thomas Hoving
Delving into one of the most sacrosanct areas of culture - - fine art collecting - - Thomas Hoving presents a gallery of art fakes, fakers, and the suckers who fell for the scams....... read more
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Master Pieces
Thomas Hoving
An adaptation of a visual exercise known as the "curator's game" outlines an entertaining approach to understanding and appreciating great works of art, in a volume that introduces...... read more
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Making the Mummies Dance
Thomas Hoving
A former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art reveals his bold and brash life at its pinnacle: the clandestine deals which secured blockbuster exhibitions for the museum and...... read more
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The Art of Dan Namingha
Thomas Hoving
Among the best known and most honored living Native American artists, Dan Namingha blends realism and abstract modernism with stunning graphic power. Both a biography and a critical...... read more
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Making the Mummies Dance
Thomas Hoving
The former director of the famed New York museum recounts his activities at the art world's pinnacle, from wooing important patrons to battling for acquisitions, from high-society...... read more
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Masterpiece
Thomas Hoving
The dashing director of The National Gallery of Art is pitted against the ambitious, beautiful young woman who is acting director of the Met in a fight for ownership of a masterwork...... read more
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Discovery
Thomas Hoving
Questing for the rumored riches of a lost Roman Empire city, chic New Yorkers Olivia and Andrew Foster travel to Naples, where deep underground the ghosts and treasures of Herculaneum...... read more
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Tutankhamun
Thomas Hoving
Former Metropolitan Museum of Art director Hoving recounts Howard Carter's search for Tut's tomb, and the international confrontations that followed, as Carter kept other archeologists...... read more
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