Cycladic Art

$65.00 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Edited by Seán Hemingway with contributions by Dorothy Abramitis, Alexis Belis, Federico Carò, Giorgos Gavalas, Elizabeth Hendrix, and Joseph Alexander MacGillivray Created more than four millennia ago in an archipelago in the Aegean Sea, the sculptures of the ancient Cyclades are among the most arresting representations of the human form ever created. Little is known about these enigmatic and mesmerizing objects, which have inspired generations of modern artists, from Constantin Brancusi and Pablo Picasso to…