Apollo's muse : the moon in the age of photography / Mia Fineman and Beth Saunders ; with an introduction by Tom Hanks.

Main entry:

Fineman, Mia, author.

Title & Author:

Apollo's muse : the moon in the age of photography / Mia Fineman and Beth Saunders ; with an introduction by Tom Hanks.

Publication:

New York, New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2019]
©2019

Description:

192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from July 3 through September 22, 2019.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-187) and index.
Introduction / Tom Hanks -- Mapping the moon / Beth Saunders -- Daydreams by moonlight / Mia Fineman -- Moonshot / Mia Fineman -- Art after Apollo / Beth Saunders -- Works in the exhibition.

Summary:

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, Apollo's Muse honors the rich history of photographic representations of the moon, from rarely seen early daguerreotypes to contemporary video art. Engaging and accessible, the book explores how photographers captured this celestial body-and how the images have in turn inspired artists, writers, and scientists. The book's wide-ranging focus includes extraordinary reproductions of the first successful series of lunar daguerreotypes by the American photographer John Adams Whipple, along with film stills from Voyage dans la Lune (1902) by Georges Melies; American "paper moon" studio portraits; images from the Apollo mission; and works by contemporary artists, including Vija Celmins, Roy Lichtenstein, Aleksandra Mir, Vik Muniz, Nam June Paik, and Robert Rauschenberg. Related prints, drawings, paintings, and astronomical instruments explore artists' fascination with the moon, as an object of both art and science. A foreword by actor Tom Hanks, star of the award-winning 1995 film Apollo 13, outlines the importance of lunar images to art and cinema, reinforcing the universal fascination with representations of the cosmos. Exhibition: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (01.07-22.09.2019)

ISBN:

1588396843 (hardcover)
9781588396846 (hardcover)

Subject:

Lunar photography Exhibitions.
Lune Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
Lune dans l'art Expositions.
Photographie de la Lune Expositions.
Popular Science.
Lunar photography.
Lune Photographies spatiales 1800-....
Lune Et l'art.
Popular Science and Mathematics.
Moon Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Moon In art Exhibitions.
Moon.
1600-2015

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
exhibition catalogs.
works of art.
Illustrated works.
Exhibition catalogs.
Art.
Exhibition, pictorial works.
Ouvrages illustrés.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Œuvres d'art.

Added entries:

Saunders, Beth (Estie Elizabeth), author.
Hanks, Tom, writer of introduction.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318643
Call No.: 318643
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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