Philippe De Montebello
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The fruits of a lifetime of experience by a cultural colossus, Phillippe de Montebello, the longest-serving director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in its history, distilled in conversations with an acclaimed critic. Beginning with a fragment of yellow jasper - all that is left of the face of an Egyptian woman who lived 3,500 years ago - this book confronts the elusive questions: how, and why, do we look at art? Philippe de Montebello and Martin...
Publisher
Les Blank Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This film by Alan Govenar chronicles two attempts to forge a more equitable world: the connection between them, the people creating them, and the legacy they have left behind. Both inspired by the social philosophy of Charles Foureir—one, La Reunion, outside Dallas failed, the other, the Familistere, in Guise, France, lasted nearly a century.