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Willem de Kooning The Artist's Materials

Lake Susan F.

ISBN: PB: 9781606060216, Getty Publications, November 2010
112 pp., 25.6x18.9 cm, 34 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

This is the first systematic and truly methodical study of de Kooning's idiosyncratic working methods and use of materials. This in-depth study of the paintings of Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), Dutch-born American abstract expressionist painter, fro...

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Closer Look Still Life

Langmuir Erika

ISBN: PB: 9781857095005, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2010
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 80 colour illus.

What is still life? We are familiar with the objects portrayed but have difficulty explaining the essence of this popular art form. Erika Langmuir examines the special fascination of still life, and what distinguishes it from other categories of pain...

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J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Antiquities Collection

Lapatin Kenneth, Wight Karol

ISBN: PB: 9780892369980, Getty Publications, July 2010
264 pp., 24.5x14.3 cm, 200 colour illus., 12 black&white illus.

This is a stunningly illustrated examination of nearly two-hundred of the most important pieces in the J. Paul Getty Museum's Antiquities Collection. The antiquities collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles contains more than fifty thous...

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Closer Look Allegory

Langmuir Erika

ISBN: PB: 9781857094855, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, May 2010
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 90 colour illus.

Formerly part of the popular "Pocket Guides" series, "Allegory" is published in a new edition as "A Closer Look", with a wealth of beautiful reproductions. This informative guide helps readers understand the language of allegory within Western painti...

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Closer Look Angels

Langmuir Erika

ISBN: PB: 9781857094848, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, May 2010
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 90 colour illus.

Formerly part of the popular "Pocket Guides" series, "Angels" is published in a new edition as "A Closer Look", with a wealth of beautiful reproductions. This informative guide helps readers identify angels and their significance in a painting – be i...

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Closer Look Saints

Langmuir Erika

ISBN: PB: 9781857094657, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, January 2010
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 90 colour illus.

Drawing on the National Gallery's comprehensive collection of religious images, "A Closer Look: Saints" explains the importance of saints and their role in the history of European painting. Erika Langmuir underlines the fundamental importance of sai...

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Accademia Seminars The Accademia Di San Luca in Rome, C. 1590-1635

Lukehart Peter M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300135916, Yale University Press, November 2009
376 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 74 duotone illus.

This volume of essays reexamines the establishment and early history of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, one of the most important centres of governance, education, and theory in the arts for the early modern period and the model for all subsequent...

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Art Conservation

Papers on Special Techniques in Athenian Vases

Lapatin Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9780892369010, Getty Publications, September 2008
264 pp., 27.9x19.7 cm, 140 colour and black&white illus.

In June 2006, the J. Paul Getty Museum hosted an international symposium to coincide with the exhibition The Colours of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases. The themes of the exhibition – vases executed in bilingual, coral-red gloss, outline,...

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Blind Spot An Essay on the Relations Between Painting and Sculpture in the Modern Age

Lichtenstein Jacqueline

ISBN: HB: 9780892368921, Getty Publications, September 2008
240 pp., 23.8x17.1 cm, 16 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.

Beginning in the seventeenth century, many of Europe's greatest writers and artists became embroiled in a debate that centered on the priority of paintings or sculpture, touch or sight, colour or design, ancient or modern. "The Blind Spot" guides us...

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David After David Essays on the Later Work

Ledbury Mark, Bajou Valerie, Bordes Philippe, Crow Thomas, Fried Michael, Harkett Daniel, Grimaldo Grigsby Darcy, Guegan Stephane, Janzing Godehard, Johnson Dorothy

ISBN: HB: 9780300121513, Yale University Press, November 2007
256 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 16 colour illus., 140 black&white illus.

With essays by Valerie Bajou, Philippe Bordes, Thomas Crow, Michael Fried, Tom Gretton, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Stephane Guegan, Daniel Harkett, Godehard Janzing, Dorothy Johnson, Mehdi Korchane, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Issa Lampe, Mark Ledbury, Simon L...

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