About this title: Filled with the juicy details of the lives of the powerful players who made the Metropolitan Museum of Art what it is today, Gross delivers the unauthorized history of America's wealthiest and arguably the world's greatest art museum.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Broadway
Date Published: 2009-05-05
ISBN-13:9780767924887ISBN:0767924886
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780767924887ISBN:0767924886
Description: New. Filled with the juicy details of the lives of the powerful players who made the Metropolitan Museum of Art what it is today, Gross delivers the unauthorized history of America's wealthiest and arguably the world's greatest art museum. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Broadway Books
Date Published: 2009-05-05
ISBN-13:9780767924887ISBN:0767924886
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Broadway
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780767924887ISBN:0767924886
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"If you want to learn all about the politics and schemes put together in the formation and running of one of the world's greatest museums, this is the book for you. It discusses all of the wealthy patrons who amassed fabulous art collections which they donated to the museum as well as discussion of all of the directors through the years and their methods of running the institution. A lot of graft and corruption went in to creating this, seemingly flawless, collection. The Met is one of my favorite museums and after having studied art history for 15 years, it still remains a thrill to enter it and climb up that grand staircase. Those who contributed created one of the art wonders of the world, as far as I am concerned-----no matter how they did it!!!"
"Interesting. I'd read it if you are curious about the moneyed classes of the late 19th and 20th centuries, or about New York society and status, or about the workings of museums.
I found keeping track of all of the people (aside from the easy ones, i.e. Rockefellers, Astors, Morgan and so on) difficult, though this is probably more my fault than the author's. His writing, though, was confusing at times, sentences could have been constructed better to keep all of the hims and hers straight. This marred the overall effect."
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