This lavishly illustrated series provides readers with the official guides to some of the world's finest galleries and art collections. Packed with fascinating detail, historical insight, and fully up-to-date information, these guides are a must-have for planning their visit to Florence.

    Following the chronological layout of the Museum, the book tours the collections held in each hall, with accompanying text by international Egyptologists. Highlights include the 4000-year-old jewels of a princess from Dahshur, shown for the first time to a non-specialist audience, the funerary treasure of Queen Ahhotep, the tombs of the kings and queens at Tanis on the Nile Delta, and statues from the Temple of AmenRe at Karnak.

    Maya Lin is one of the most important public artists of this century. As an architecture student at Yale, Lin designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a class project, entering it in the largest design competition in American history. Her winning proposal, a V-shaped wall of black stone etched with the names of 58,000 dead soldiers, has since become the most visited memorial in the nation’s capital.This visually rich volume presents 50 projects from the last three decades that demonstrate the scope of Lin’s creative process, featuring her own sketches and drawings and linked by her ideal of making a place for individuals within the landscape. With her environmental works Storm King Wavefield, Eleven-Minute Line (Sweden), and Pin River–Yangtze (Beijing), Lin maintains a balance between art and architecture, drawing inspiration from culturally diverse sources.  From the moment she entered the national spotlight with her design for the Vietnam Memorial, Lin has been proposing ways of thinking and imagining that resist categories, genres, and borders.

    Among the images included are paintings, sculptures, photographs and drawings from a wide range of artists.

    

    The ultimate Elvis obsessive is Joni Mabe. Immersed in his image and his music since his death in 1977, she has fashioned a fabulous collection of Elvis memorabilia ranging from the curious to the bizarre: pins, bedspreads, posters, votive candles, clothes, lamps, furniture, records, tableaux, locks of his hair and even the 'Maybe Elvis Toenail'. Alongside this pop-art kitsch, she has created colorful textured collages using images of the King from his early hip-swivelling days to his bejewelled majesty.