Catnip: Artful Felines from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

By: Chronicle Books

Book Overview

From The Metropolitan Museum of Art's vast holdings comes this charming collection of fine art felines. Cats of all types provide the artistic mews for the gallery of images presented here, all perfectly paired with quips about cats from some of our most famous writers, thinkers, and humorists, among them Leonardo da Vinci, Oscar Wilde, and Gertrude Stein. The face of a cat superimposed on an artists self-portrait is accompanied by Mark Twain's dry...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811851184
• ISBN13: 9780811851183
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A great little book

Makes a great gift for cat lovers or art lovers or both ideally! I want to keep the copy I bought as a gift though, ha ha:)

PERFECT BOOK FOR A SMALL COFFEE TABLE

COMBINING HISTORICAL QUOTES WITH GREAT ART THAT INCLUDES CATS IS SOMETHING THAT ANY CAT LOVER SHOULD HAVE AND GIVE AS GIFTS.