# Metpublications Free Art Texts (500 books)

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**Created:** [February 7, 2017, 12:11am UTC](https://www.smartermarx.com/t/metpublications-free-art-texts-500-books/68 "2017-02-07T00:11:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![AWaichulis](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/www.smartermarx.com/awaichulis/32/2859_2.png) [@AWaichulis](https://www.smartermarx.com/u/AWaichulis)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2017, 12:11am UTC](https://www.smartermarx.com/t/metpublications-free-art-texts-500-books/68/1 "2017-02-07T00:11:32Z")

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**MetPublications** now makes available 397 out-of-print titles, including lots of informative and visually-packed art catalogs from the museum’s past exhibitions. You can read the books online or download them in PDF format.

LINK: [http://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/titles-with-full-text-online?searchtype=F](http://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/titles-with-full-text-online?searchtype=F)

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**Author:** ![jaylene1058293](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e7dd6/32.png) [@jaylene1058293](https://www.smartermarx.com/u/jaylene1058293)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 1:43pm UTC](https://www.smartermarx.com/t/metpublications-free-art-texts-500-books/68/2 "2017-02-17T13:43:56Z")

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This link might be useful as well: [http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org](http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org)

Its for the digital collection of the Metropolitan Museums Art Libraries.

On this page there is a link to the books the Met publish that are now on line. Its just another way to get to the art books, but also has a lot of other cool stuff such as links to costume fashion plates, auction catalogs, Japanese illustrated books…its a long list.

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**Author:** ![AWaichulis](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/www.smartermarx.com/awaichulis/32/2859_2.png) [@AWaichulis](https://www.smartermarx.com/u/AWaichulis)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 1:57pm UTC](https://www.smartermarx.com/t/metpublications-free-art-texts-500-books/68/3 "2017-02-17T13:57:25Z")

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Awesome Jaylene! I love the fact that we have so many resources coming together. You should share this in the **artist-educator-resources/free-online-books-papers section**! 😃