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Ethiopian Art(1st Edition)
The Walters Art Museum
by Gary Vikan, Getatchew Haile, Jacques Mercier, Deborah E. . Horowitz, Susan Tobin, Deborah Ellen Horowitz, Kelly M. Holbert
Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2006 by Third Millenium Pub Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-1-903942-02-4, ISBN: 1-903942-02-0

"The collection of Ethiopian art at The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore is one of the largest and finest outside of Ethiopia, both in terms of depth and range.   This book celebrates the art of the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia in metalwork, processional crosses, painted icons and illuminated manuscripts used in the services of the Church and reveals a vibrant artistic world of color, ritual and spirituality."






Ethiopian Art(1st Edition)
The Walters Art Museum by Gary Vikan (2001-05-03)
by Horowitz Editor, Gary Vikan, Kelly M. Holbert, Deborah E. Horowitz, Susan Tobin
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2001 by Third Millennium Pub.
ISBN-13: 978-0-911886-52-8, ISBN: 0-911886-52-4

"Soft cover book titled ETHIOPIAN ART: The Walters Art Museum. With a Foreword by Gary Vikan. First published in 2001 by Third Millennium Publishing Limited. Illustrated in color and black and white. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2BS-12-L-middle) rareviewbooks"






The Holy Shroud
A Brilliant Hoax in the Time of the Black Death
by Gary Vikan
304 Pages, Published 2020 by Simon And Schuster
ISBN-13: 978-1-64313-433-8, ISBN: 1-64313-433-7

"In The Holy Shroud Gary Vikan shows that the shroud is not the burial cloth of Jesus, but rather a photograph-like body print of a medieval Frenchman created by a brilliant artist serving the royal court in the time of the Black Death."






The Holy Shroud(1st Edition)
A Brilliant Hoax in the Time of the Black Death
by Gary Vikan
Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2020 by Pegasus Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-64313-432-1, ISBN: 1-64313-432-9

"A leading figure in the art world unravels the mystery of the world’s most controversial relic.The history of the Christian church is strewn with holy relics and artifacts, none more controversial than the Shroud of Turin, the supposed burial cloth of Christ. In The Holy Shroud Gary Vikan shows that the shroud is not the burial cloth of Jesus, but rather a photograph-like body print of a medieval Frenchman created by a brilliant artist ..."






Sacred and Stolen
Confessions of a Museum Director
by Gary Vikan
Published 2016 by Selectbooks, Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-1-59079-401-2, ISBN: 1-59079-401-X

"I told him that shortly after my secret April 1983 meeting with Yanni Petsopoulos, I received a catch-up-on-news phone call from Mary Jane Victor. In the course of the conversation I mentioned a magnificent 14th-century icon of John the Baptist belonging to Yanni that I had seen in the New York penthouse of a major, though very discrete, collector of Byzantine art. Other icons in that penthouse were lent to the Dumbarton Oaks exhib ..."






Postcards from the Walters
by Gary Vikan
Hardcover, Published 2012 by Walters Art Museum, Us
ISBN-13: 978-0-911886-80-1, ISBN: 0-911886-80-X






Making History/ Making Art
MICA
by Douglas L. Frost, Fred Lazarus Iv, Gary Vikan, Doreen Bolger, Jeff Koons,
Hardcover, 319 Pages, Published 2010 by Maryland Institute College Of Art
ISBN-13: 978-0-9669677-0-8, ISBN: 0-9669677-0-4






Beyond the Turnstile(9th Edition)
Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values
by Selma Holo, Mari-Tere Alvarez, Elazar Barkan, Anthony Appiah, Carlos Monsivais, David Wilson, Jorge Wagensberg, Maxwell L. Anderson, Donny George Youkhanna, Gary Matthews Jr., Lita Albuquerque, Joseph E. Aoun, Placido Arango, Javier Arnaldo, Leticia Azcue Brea, Marco Barrera Bassols, Ivan Guillermo Barrios, David Bomford, Faya Causey, Elliot Davis, James Elkins, Shelly Errington, Gerardo Estrada Rodríguez, Steven Evans, James Folsom, Tom L. Freudenheim, Fredrik Hiebert, Leonard Krishtalka, Ramiro Martinez, Charles Merewether, Bernard Mueller, Ilber Ortayli, Santiago Palomero, Carrie Przybilla, Nelly Robles García, Steven Seidel, Jon L. Seydl, Alan Shestack, Cherise Smith, Lori Starr, Gary Vikan, Vanda Vitali, James Walvin, Jay Wiegel, Walvin/Vitali/Vikan/
Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2009 by Altamira Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7591-1221-6, ISBN: 0-7591-1221-5

"Beyond the Turnstile argues that museums are indispensable to civil society, especially in an era in which museums often are reduced to cultural businesses or "edu-tainment" sites. Is it inevitable that a museum's success will be measured solely by how many people come through the door and how much money they spend? The eminent contributors to this volume provide museum leaders with a different set of criteria for evaluating the success ..."






Sacred Images and Sacred Power in Byzantium(1st Edition)
(Variorum Collected Studies Series)
by Gary Vikan, Dr. Gray Vikan
Hardcover, 326 Pages, Published 2003 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-86078-934-5, ISBN: 0-86078-934-9

"In these studies Gary Vikan has opened new perspectives on the daily life and material culture of Late Antiquity - more specifically, on icons and relics, and on objects revealing of the world of pilgrimage, the early cult of saints, and marriage. He contextualizes these familiar categories of object in the patterns of belief and ritual extracted from contemporary texts and the objects themselves, in order to understand their meaning wi ..."






The Manual of Museum Exhibitions
by Barry Lord, Gail Dexter Lord, Contributor-Martha Black, Contributor-Ralph Appelbaum, Contributor-Robert Bloomfield, Contributor-Elizabeth Broun, Contributor-Kathleen Brown, Contributor-Patrick Blandin, Stephen L. Cox, Barry Crean, Colin Dawes, Susan Dunlop, David Erskine, Kevin Gosling, Duncan Grewcock, Till Hahn, Kristin Johnson, Brad King, Margaret May, Heather Maximea, Yves Mayrand, Hooley Mclaughlin, John Millard, Martha Morris, John Nicks, Peter Osborne, Anne Pennington, William Phippen, Maria Piacente, Kate Sellers, Robert Scott, Kevan Shaw, Barbara Soren, Chuck Sutyla, Scott Sayre, Gary Vikan, Fred Wartna, David B. Whitehouse, Patterson Williams, Michael Wilson, Erich Zuern, Contributor-Patrick...
Hardcover, 576 Pages, Published 2001 by Altamira Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7591-0233-0, ISBN: 0-7591-0233-3

"The Manual of Museum Exhibitions is a practical, hands-on, comprehensive guide to the entire process of planning, designing, producing, and evaluating exhibitions for museums of all kinds. Conceived, organized, and edited by Gail and Barry Lord, this invaluable book includes contributions by masters of each step in the complex art of museum exhibition-making. Subjects range from traditional displays of art, artifacts, and specimens from ..."






Ecclesiastical Silver Plate in Sixth-Century Byzantium
(Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Byzantine Studies)
by Dumbarton Oaks, Susan A. Boyd, Marlia Mundell Mango, Gary Vikan, Susan Anne Boyd, Walters Art Gallery
Hardcover, 392 Pages, Published 1993 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection
ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-203-9, ISBN: 0-88402-203-X

"Therefore, my information concerning it has been gleaned from a variety of sources, both published and unpublished. Until the premature death of Dr. Nezih Firath in 1979, a number of scholars were able to examine all or part of the treasure in Turkey. Notes left on file at Dumbarton Oaks by Professor Ernst Kitzinger and the late Dr. John S. Thacher have been very useful — if occasionally contradictory — and I am grateful to Dr. Eri ..."






The Manual of Museum Exhibitions(Updated)
by Barry Lord, Gail Dexter Lord, Ralph Appelbaum, Martha Black, Patrick Blandin, Robert Bloomfield, Elizabeth Broun, Professor Kathleen Brown, Stephen L. Cox, Barry Crean, David Erskine Sir, Colin Dawes, Susan Dunlop, Director Gary Vikan, Kevin Gosling, Duncan Grewcock, Till Hahn, Kristin Johnson, Brad King, Margaret May, Heather Maximea, Yves Mayrand, Hooley Mclaughlin, John Millard, Martha Morris, John Nicks, Peter Osborne, Anne Pennington, William Phippen, Maria Piacente, Kate Sellers, Robert Scott, Kevan Shaw, Barbara Soren, Chuck Sutyla, Scott Sayre, Professor Michael Wilson, Fred Wartna, David B. Whitehouse, Patterson Williams, Erich Zuern
Paperback, 576 Pages, Published 2001 by Altamira Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7591-0234-7, ISBN: 0-7591-0234-1

"The Manual of Museum Exhibitions is a practical, hands-on, comprehensive guide to the entire process of planning, designing, producing, and evaluating exhibitions for museums of all kinds. Conceived, organized, and edited by Gail and Barry Lord, this invaluable book includes contributions by masters of each step in the complex art of museum exhibition-making. Subjects range from traditional displays of art, artifacts, and specimens from ..."






Japanese Cloisonne Enamels(1st Edition)
The Stephen W. Fisher Collection
by Robert Michael Mintz, Gary Vikan, Stephen W. Fisher, Walters Art Museum
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2009 by Walters Art Museum
ISBN-13: 978-0-911886-71-9, ISBN: 0-911886-71-0

"Created as objects of unsurpassed beauty and refined elegance, the enameled metal boxes, vases, trays, and urns at the heart of this exhibition have the potential to transport us back to an era rich with sumptuous decoration and marked by cultural discovery. In the decades leading to the dawn of the 20th century, these masterful works of art featured prominently in the international cultural and industrial expositions that occurred almo ..."






Sacred Arts and City Life(1st Edition)
The Glory of Medieval Novgorod
by Gary Vikan, Director Gary Vikan, C. Griffith Mann, Yevgenia Petrova, Evgenii︠a︡ Andreevna Petrova, Gosudarstvennyĭ Russkiĭ Muzeĭ, Bucerius Kunst Forum
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2006 by Other Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-911886-59-7, ISBN: 0-911886-59-1

"Combining 10 essays by archaeologists, art and architectural historians, and historians, this book is one of the first in English to focus on Novgorod from a wide range of disciplines. The book, which also includes entries on all of the objects featured in the Walters Art Museum exhibition, is illustrated by new color and black-and-white photography."






The St. Peter Icon of Dumbarton Oaks
by Kurt Weitzmann, Gary Vikan
Paperback, 47 Pages, Published 1983 by Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-133-9, ISBN: 0-88402-133-5

"The St. Peter Icon of Dumbarton Oaks by Kurt Weitzmann (Gary Vikan, series editor). 1983 paperback published by Dumbarton Oaks. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs."






Illuminated Greek Manuscripts from American Collections
An Exhibition in Honor of Kurt Weitzmann
by Gary Vikan, Dr. Gray Vikan, Kurt Weitzmann
Hardcover, 231 Pages, Published 1973 by Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-03889-6, ISBN: 0-691-03889-9

" The Description for this book, Illuminated Greek Manuscripts from American Collections: An Exhibition in Honor of Kurt Weitzmann, will be forthcoming."






Origins of the Russian Avant-Garde(1st Edition)
Celebrating the 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg
by Yevgenia Petrova, Nicoletta Misler, John E. Bowlt, E. A. Petrova, Deborah Horowitz, Vikan Gary, Joseph Kiblitsky, Elena Basner, S. Frederick Starr, Irina Boguslavskaya, Kenneth Macinnes
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 1955 by Palace Editions / Walters Art Museum
ISBN-13: 978-0-911886-56-6, ISBN: 0-911886-56-7

"This richly illustrated catalogue documents the exhibition organised by the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, in partnership with the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg. Featuring celebrated paintings by such pioneering artists as Wasilii Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Natalia Goncharova, it also includes the work of more than twenty other innovative artists of the Russian avant-garde, some of whose art has rarely been ..."






John Ruskin(1st Edition)
The Argument of the Eye
by Robert Hewison ., Gary Vikan, Eve Blau, Kurt: Festschrift Weitzmann
Hardcover, 228 Pages, Published 1976 by Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-03890-2, ISBN: 0-691-03890-2

" The Description for this book, John Ruskin: The Argument of the Eye, will be forthcoming."






Heaven(1st Edition)
by Doreet Levitte Harten, Thierry De Duve, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Jean-Luc Nancy, Angelica Ensel, Gary Vikan, Samuel Delany, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Tate Gallery
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1999 by Cantz
ISBN-13: 978-3-89322-935-2, ISBN: 3-89322-935-3

"Volker Albus, Staatliche Hochschule fur Gestaltung Karlsruhe Jochen Saueracker Jurgen Fritzke, Hans-Jurgen Kunzel, Hilmar Sauer, Heinz Stramm and team Michael Butzer, Wolfgang Topel and team Hiltrud Eichelmann, Bettina Kratzsch, Sabine Krohm-Steinberg, Heike Rosenbaum Catalogue Edited by: Redaction: Design: Copy Editing: Biographies: Translations: Cover Illustration: Installation Photographs: Type-setting: Lithography: Printed by: ..."

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