Download 448 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
You could pay $118 on Amazon for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s catalog The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry. Or you could pay $0 to download it at MetPublications, the site offering “five decades of Met Museum publications on art history available to read, download, and/or search for free.” If that strikes you as an obvious choice, prepare to spend some serious time browsing MetPublications’ collection of free art books and catalogs. You may remember that we featured the site a few years ago, back when it offered 397 whole books free for the reading, including American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885–1915; Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomical Drawings from the Royal Library; and Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Related Content: Download Over 250 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum The Guggenheim Puts 109 Free Modern Art Books Online
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The Guggenheim Puts 109 Free Modern Art Books Online
Back in January, 2012, we mentioned that the Guggenheim (the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed modern art museum in NYC) had put 65 art catalogues on the web, all free of charge. We’re happy to report that, between then and now, the number of free texts has grown to 109. Published between 1937 and 1999, the art books/catalogues offer an intellectual and visual introduction to the work of Alexander Calder, Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon, Gustav Klimt & Egon Schiele, Fernand Léger, and Kandinsky. Anyone interested in the history of the Guggenheim will want to spend time with a collection called “The Syllabus.” To read any of these 109 free art books, you will just need to follow these simple instructions. 1.) You can find many more free art books from the Getty and the Met below. Related Content: Download Over 250 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum Download 397 Free Art Catalogs from The Metropolitan Museum of Art 800 Free eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices
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Où télécharger des ebooks gratuits ?
Dans les articles précédents, j’ai abordé les sujets suivants : « Tablette ou liseuse pour lire vos ebooks », « Quelle liseuse choisir pour lire vos ebooks » et « Quelle tablette choisir pour lire vos ebooks ». Maintenant que vous êtes équipé d’une tablette ou d’une liseuse, je vous sens impatients de connaître les sites de téléchargement d’ebooks. Nous connaissons déjà les principaux sites payants, tels que Amazon, Google Livres, La Fnac, Lulu ou encore Chapitre.com, ePagine… Mais savez-vous qu’il existe également des sites de téléchargement d’ebooks gratuits ? C’est ainsi que je vous ai préparé ma sélection des 20 meilleurs sites de téléchargement d’ebooks gratuits, afin que vous puissiez faire le plein d’ebooks sans dépenser un seul centime ! À noter que ces sites proposent en grande majorité des livres « tombés » dans le domaine public, mais pas seulement. Ces sites proposent différents formats d’ebooks. Amazon En 17 ans, Amazon est devenu le premier empire commercial du Web. Kobo
Download Original Bauhaus Books & Journals for Free: Gropius, Klee, Kandinsky, Moholy-Nagy & More
In 1919, German architect Walter Gropius founded Bauhaus, the most influential art school of the 20th century. Bauhaus defined modernist design and radically changed our relationship with everyday objects. Gropius wrote in his manifesto Programm des Staatlichen Bauhauses Weimar that “There is no essential difference between the artist and the artisan.” His new school, which featured faculty that included the likes of Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky, did indeed erase the centuries-old line between applied arts and fine arts. Bauhaus architecture sandblasted away the ornate flourishes common with early 20th century buildings, favoring instead the clean, sleek lines of industrial factories. Nowadays, of course, getting one of those Bauhaus tea kettles, or even an original copy of Gropius’s manifesto, would cost a small fortune. Click here to pick out individual works or here to just get all of them. 1. And here are some key Bauhaus journals:
Westmoreland County Tax Maps
The Westmoreland County Department of Geographic Information Systems helps Westmoreland County to fulfill a statutory requirement that all taxable property needs to be mapped to aid in the tax assessment process. Using cutting age technology, Westmoreland GIS is able to provide a layout of properties, at and below the surface, both in the past and present. This information is made available in a variety of formats to the paying and public requestors via the GIS Tax Mapping website and a secure file transfer site. New GIS Tax Mapping Site with No Subscription FeesMonday, November 18, 2013, Westmoreland County launched a new GIS Tax Map Parcel Application. The new version of the GIS Tax Map Parcel Application has increased functionality and a subscription will no longer be necessary to search by address or view deeds. Feel free to email any questions, comments or concerns.
