Book Description
A holiday keepsake featuring magnificent art from the Met Perfect for gift-giving, this beautiful volume of holiday writings is lavishly illustrated with artwork from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through holiday-rich artwork-from a medieval stained-glass window, a Currier and Ives print, and Arthur Rackham illustrations, to woodcuts from the Wiener Werkstätte, Romare Bearden's The Block, and Victorian greeting cards-every element of the Christmas season is lovingly depicted. The accompanying text includes selections to delight every member of the family, from the youngest children, who will enjoy the traditional "I Saw Three Ships" and the beloved title poem, to parents and grandparents, who will savor selections by Joseph Brodsky and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 'Twas the Night Before Christmas and Other Seasonal Favorites is a treasury to share.
About the Author
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, welcoming more than five million visitors annually. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. William Lach is a project editor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
'Twas the Night Before Christmas and Other Seasonal Favorites FROM THE PUBLISHER
A holiday keepsake featuring magnificent art from the MetPerfect for gift-giving, this beautiful volume of holiday writings is lavishly illustrated with artwork from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through holiday-rich artwork—from a medieval stained-glass window, a Currier and Ives print, and Arthur Rackham illustrations, to woodcuts from the Wiener Werkstätte, Romare Bearden's The Block, and Victorian greeting cards—every element of the Christmas season is lovingly depicted. The accompanying text includes selections to delight every member of the family, from the youngest children, who will enjoy the traditional ﾽI Saw Three Shipsﾽ and the beloved title poem, to parents and grandparents, who will savor selections by Joseph Brodsky and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. ﾽTwas the Night Before Christmas and Other Seasonal Favorites is a treasury to share.
Author Bio: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, welcoming more than five million visitors annually. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. William Lach is a project editor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
Images from New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art share space with holiday poems in 'Twas the Night Before Christmas and Other Seasonal Favorites, ed. by Edward Lach. Illustrations range from 15th-century German stained glass to Arthur Rackham works, while the verse takes in not just Clement C. Moore but Ogden Nash, Joseph Brodsky, classic carols and more. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
Kirkus Reviews
Lach pairs 19 poems (including some song lyrics treated as poems) with art from the Metropolitan Museum in New York in a thoughtfully compiled Christmas anthology. The collection includes many traditional selections, such as the passage from Luke with the angel announcing Christ's birth to the shepherds, "The Night Before Christmas," and the words to several Christmas carols and one spiritual. Works are included from well-known poets such as Poe, Longfellow, Walter de la Mare, Lewis Carroll, e.e. cummings, Ogden Nash, and Langston Hughes, along with a stunning, though perhaps lesser-known poem by Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky. The striking art features a wide variety of media, including reproductions of a stained-glass window panel, an antique Christmas card, a tapestry, and a collage, as well as some more traditional Rackham illustrations. The overall tone of the collection is sophisticated and elegant, and most children will require an adult's help to appreciate the volume's understated charm. (Poetry. 5+)
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