A. Hyatt Mayor: Selected Writings and a Bibliography

A. Hyatt Mayor: Selected Writings and a Bibliography

Mayor, A. Hyatt, with a foreword by Janet S. Byrne, Colta Ives, and Mary L. Myers
1983
200 pages
18 illustrations
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Foreword
Janet S. Byrne, Colta Ives, Mary L. Myers, A. Hyatt Mayor, Lincoln Kirstein

Selected Writings

American Letter 1931

Translation 1931

Excerpts from Goya's "Disasters of War" 1936

A Gift of Prints 1937

Carpentry and Candlelight in the Theater 1943

The Photographic Eye 1946

Renaissance Pamphleteers: Savonarola and Luther 1947

Change and Permanence in Men's Clothes 1950

Alive, Alive, O 1953

Does Your Art Collection Express Your Community? 1963

Artists as Anatomists 1964

How to Bake an Exhibition 1964

The Old Man Mad About Painting 1966

A Truth or Two About Art History 1977

Excerpts from An Interview with A. Hyatt Mayor, conducted by Paul Cummings

Bibliography

Met Art in Publication

Herodotus
March 8, 1494
A Peep at Christies;–or–Tally-ho & his Nimeny-pimeney taking the Morning Lounge, James Gillray  British, Hand-colored etching and aquatint
James Gillray
September 24, 1796
Saint Jerome in His Study, Albrecht Dürer  German, Engraving
Albrecht Dürer
1514
Plate 26  from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'One can't look' (No se puede mirar), Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)  Spanish, Etching, burnished lavis, drypoint, burin
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)
1810 (published 1863)
Sebastiano Serlio
1545, 1547
Underweysung der Messung (Nuremberg, 1538), Albrecht Dürer  German, Woodcuts
Albrecht Dürer
1538, 1527, 1532
Methode pour apprendre le Dessein..., Charles Antoine Jombert  French
Charles Antoine Jombert
1755
[Man Walking, "Stroboscopic" Photograph], Thomas Eakins  American, Gelatin silver print
Thomas Eakins
1880s, printed 1930s–40s
Predica del arte del bene morire (sermon on the art of dying well), Girolamo Savonarola  Italian, Printed book with 4 woodcut illustrations
Girolamo Savonarola
ca. 1502
Libro de Geometría, Práctica y Traça, Juan de Alcega  Spanish, plates: woodcut
Juan de Alcega
1589
Claude Du Molinet
1692
Battle of the Nude Men, Antonio Pollaiuolo  Italian, Engraving
Antonio Pollaiuolo
ca. 1470–90
Artists Examining the Work of a Rival (Artistes en train d'examiner le tableau d'un rival), from Le Public du Salon, published in "Le Charivari", Honoré Daumier  French, Lithograph; second state of two (Delteil)
Honoré Daumier
May 14, 1852
Registrum huius Operis libri cronicarum cum figuris et ymagibus ab inicio mundi, Hartmann Schedel  German, Woodcut
Hartmann Schedel
July 12, 1493

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———. 1983. A. Hyatt Mayor: Selected Writings and a Bibliography. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.