

- Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Personal memoirs
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard.
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Contemporary, classical in form, earnest and contemplative.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Patrick Bringley
- First published
- 2022
- Pages
- 121
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Publishing, Random House Children's Books, Simon & Schuster
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781982163327
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