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Donald Judd: Metals
The Artist's Materials
ISBN: PB: 9781606065686,
Getty Publications,
December 2020
168 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 46 colour illus., 47 black&white illus.
168 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 46 colour illus., 47 black&white illus.
A leading figure in the Minimalist movement in the visual arts, Donald Judd (1928-1994) pioneered the use of industrial materials and techniques, avoiding traditional substances and the direct use of his own hands. While recent decades have witnessed...
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£30,00
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Values in Heritage Management
Emerging Approaches and Research
ISBN: PB: 9781606066188,
Getty Publications,
December 2020
278 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
278 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Over the last fifty years, conservation professionals have confronted increasingly complex political, economic, and cultural dynamics. This volume, with contributions by leading international practitioners and scholars, reviews how values-based metho...
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£40,00
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John Singer Sargent
The Complete Paintings Cumulative Index to Volumes I-IX
ISBN: HB: 9780300219203,
Yale University Press,
November 2020
144 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 2 black&white illus.
144 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 2 black&white illus.
The cumulative index to "John Singer Sargent: The Complete Paintings" comprises two indexes covering the nine volumes of the complete catalogue raisonne: a comprehensive general index and an index of the titles of all the works by Sargent that have b...
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£45,00
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Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt
Emerging Research from the APPEAR Project
ISBN: PB: 9781606066546,
Getty Publications,
September 2020
228 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 160 colour illus. illus; 26 diagrams, tables
228 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 160 colour illus. illus; 26 diagrams, tables
Once interred with mummified remains, nearly a thousand funerary portraits from Roman Egypt survive today in museums around the world, bringing viewers face-to-face with people who lived two thousand years ago. Until recently, few of these paintings...
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£45,00
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Conservation of Medieval Polychrome Wood Sculpture
History, Theory, Practice
ISBN: PB: 9781606066553,
Getty Publications,
August 2020
296 pp., 26x21.6 cm, 168 colour illus., 63 black&white illus.
296 pp., 26x21.6 cm, 168 colour illus., 63 black&white illus.
Medieval polychrome wood sculptures are highly complex objects, bearers of histories that begin with their original carving and adornment and continue through long centuries of repainting, deterioration, restoration, and conservation. Abundantly illu...
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£55,00
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Lectures on Art
Selected "Conferences" from the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, 1667-1772
ISBN: PB: 9781606066461,
Getty Publications,
August 2020
480 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 73 colour illus.
480 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 73 colour illus.
Between 1667 and 1792, the artists and amateurs of the Acade mie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris lectured on the Academie's "conferences", foundational documents in the theory and practice of art. These texts and the principles they embod...
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£60,00
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William Blake
Visionary
ISBN: HB: 9781606066423,
Getty Publications,
August 2020
160 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 135 colour illus., 1 black&white illus.
160 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 135 colour illus., 1 black&white illus.
William Blake (1757-1827) is a universal artist – an inspiration to musicians, poets, performers, and visual artists worldwide. By combining his poetry and images on the page through radical printing techniques, Blake created some of the most strikin...
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£27,00
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Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne
Nature Transformed
ISBN: PB: 9780300250848,
Yale University Press,
August 2020
80 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 40 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.
80 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 40 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.
Francois-Xavier (1927-2008) and Claude (1925-2019) Lalanne were a husband-wife team of artists who created inventive and often whimsical works that have been widely admired and collected since the 1960s. This book presents a carefully selected group...
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£25,00
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Rembrandt's Orient
West Meets East in Dutch Art of the 17th Century
ISBN: HB: 9783791359632,
Prestel Publishing,
August 2020
264 pp., 30x24 cm, 266 colour illus.
264 pp., 30x24 cm, 266 colour illus.
In the 17th century, Amsterdam was a vibrant hub of the burgeoning European trade with Asia, Africa, and the Levant, importing copious amounts of foreign items that powerfully stimulated the imagination of numerous Dutch artists. This was notably the...
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£39,99
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Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting
ISBN: PB: 9780674244450,
ISBN: HB: 9780674244443,
Harvard University Press,
July 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 photos, 67 colour photos
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 photos, 67 colour photos
How did modern Chinese painters see landscape? Did they depict nature in the same way as premodern Chinese painters? What does the artistic perception of modern Chinese painters reveal about the relationship between artists and the nation-state? Coul...
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£36,95
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£60,95
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