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History of Art

Winslow Homer Poet of the Sea

Levy Sophie

ISBN: PB: 9780932171504, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, June 2006
152 pp., 27.9x22.3 cm, 100 colour plates

Waves battering the weathered rocks on a shore, young boys sailing carefree on open waters: "Winslow Homer's" raw, evocative seascapes are among the most distinctive and powerful in American art".Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea" offers here a fresh ex...

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Photography

Biography & Memoires

In Focus Dorothea Lange

Lange Dorothea, Keller Judith

ISBN: PB: 9780892366750, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 19.7x15.3 cm, 50 duotones

This instalment in the acclaimed "In Focus" series examines the life and career of Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), who is most recognized for her social documentary work during the Great Depression of the 1930's The Getty Museum holds nearly one hundred...

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Art Conservation

Photography

Guide to the Preventive Conservation of Photograph Collections

Lavedrine Bertrand, Monod Sybille, Gandolfo Jean-Paul, Manod Sybille

ISBN: PB: 9780892367016, Getty Publications, March 2006
312 pp., 22x19 cm, 128 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.

More than 30 years of continuing research into the preservation of photographic collections have led to a better understanding of the fragility of these images and the means by which to preserve them. A resource for the photographic conservator, cons...

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History of Art

Gustave Le Gray 1820-1884

Le Gray Gustave, Aubenas Sylvie

ISBN: PB: 9780892366712, Getty Publications, March 2006
402 pp., 24.2x29.3 cm, 237 colour illus., 113 black&white illus.

"Gustave Le Gray's" life was as romantic as any novel. A young painter in Rome, then a fashionable portrait photographer in Paris, Le Gray received commissions from Napoleon Ill, and astonished viewers with his painterly landscapes and ravishing seas...

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History of Art

Analysis of Modern Paints

Learner Thomas J. S.

ISBN: PB: 9780892367795, Getty Publications, March 2006
236 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 240 black&white illus.,10 colour illus.

Although oil remains an important binding medium in artists' paints, today's synthetic resins are being used with increasing frequency. This was true during much of the twentieth century, when artists such as David Alfaro Siqueiros, Jackson Pollock,...

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Art Conservation

Issues in the Conservation of Paintings

Leonard Mark, Bomford David

ISBN: PB: 9780892367818, ISBN: HB: 9780892367801, Getty Publications, March 2006
520 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 35 black&white illus., 65 colour illus.

This volume on paintings conservation includes more than seventy texts ranging from the fifteenth century to the present day. Some are classic and highly influential writings, others, although little known when first published, in retrospect reflect...

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Art Conservation

Personal Viewpoints Thoughts About Painting Conservation

Leonard Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780892366989, Getty Publications, March 2006
128 pp., 25.5x19 cm, 53 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Bringing innovative scientific techniques to an aesthetic endeavour, paintings conservators face countless decisions as they implement a course of treatment for each picture in their care. The papers in this book, originally presented at a recent sem...

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History of Art

Joachim Witwael Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan

Lowenthal Anne W.

ISBN: PB: 9780892363049, Getty Publications, March 2006
94 pp., 23.5x19.2 cm, 16 colour illus., 53 duotone illus.

The Dutch artist Joachim Wtewael (1566-1638) was a history painter especially admired for his astonishing small paintings on copper. The Getty's Museum's Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan is one of his finest works in this unusually demanding medium...

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Photography

Biography & Memoires

In Focus Hill and Adamson

Lyden Anne M.

ISBN: PB: 9780892365401, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 19.6x15.2 cm, 55 illus.

Shortly after the dawn of photography, the unlikely partnership between the respected painter David Octavius Hill and the young engineer Robert Adamson produced some of the most important photographs in the history of the medium. Their alliance began...

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Photography

Biography & Memoires

In Focus Paul Strand

Lyden Anne M.

ISBN: PB: 9780892368082, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 19.4x15.2 cm, 55 duotone illus.

Paul Strand (1890-1976) defined twentieth-century American photography in a prolific career that spanned more than sixty years. His photographs explore the abstract and dynamic qualities found in the natural world, search for humanity in portraits of...

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