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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

Historiae
Multiple artists/makers
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
A Peep at Christies;–or–Tally-ho & his Nimeny-pimeney taking the Morning Lounge
Multiple artists/makers
September 24, 1796
Saint Jerome in His Study, Albrecht Dürer German, Engraving
Saint Jerome in His Study
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
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)
1810 (published 1863)
Il primo libro d'architettura di Sebastiano Serlio Bolognese. Il secondo libro di perspectiva di Sebastiano Serlio, Bolognese.
Multiple artists/makers
1545, 1547
Underweysung der Messung (Nuremberg, 1538), Albrecht Dürer German, Woodcuts
Underweysung der Messung (Nuremberg, 1538)
Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer
1538, 1527, 1532
Methode pour apprendre le Dessein..., Charles Antoine Jombert French
Methode pour apprendre le Dessein...
Multiple artists/makers
1755
[Man Walking, "Stroboscopic" Photograph], Thomas Eakins American, Gelatin silver print
[Man Walking, "Stroboscopic" Photograph]
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
Predica del arte del bene morire (sermon on the art of dying well)
Girolamo Savonarola
Antonio Tubini
ca. 1502
Libro de Geometría, Práctica y Traça, Juan de Alcega Spanish, plates: woodcut
Libro de Geometría, Práctica y Traça
Multiple artists/makers
1589
Le cabinet de la bibliothéque de Sainte Geneviève
Multiple artists/makers
1692
Battle of the Nude Men, Antonio Pollaiuolo Italian, Engraving
Battle of the Nude Men
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)
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"
Multiple artists/makers
May 14, 1852
Registrum huius Operis libri cronicarum cum figuris et ymagibus ab inicio mundi, Hartmann Schedel German, Woodcut
Registrum huius Operis libri cronicarum cum figuris et ymagibus ab inicio mundi
Multiple artists/makers
July 12, 1493

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