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Visualizing Empire Africa, Europe, and the Politics of Representation
ISBN: PB: 9781606066683, Getty Publications, January 2021
200 pp., 0x0 cm
An exploration of how an official French visual culture normalized France's colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects to racialized ideas of life in the empire. By the end of World War I, having fortified its colonial holdings in the Caribbe...
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If... 25th Anniversary Edition
ISBN: HB: 9781947440050, Getty Publications, March 2020
48 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 30 colour illus.
Take a fantastical journey where anything can happen: leaves turn into fish, cats fly with wings, humans have tails, frogs eat rainbows, and dreams become visible. The Getty's first children's title, Sarah Perry's delightful picture book of "surreal...
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£12,99
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Out of Bounds The Collected Writings of Marcia Tucker
ISBN: PB: 9781606065969, Getty Publications, July 2019
288 pp., 25x15 cm
These influential, hard-to-obtain texts – many of which have never before been published – by Marcia Tucker, founding director of New York's New Museum, showcase her lifelong commitment to pushing the boundaries of curatorial practice and writing whi...
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Sistine Chapel Paradise in Rome
ISBN: PB: 9781606065532, Getty Publications, August 2018
184 pp., 19.1x14 cm, 31 colour illus., 18 black&white illus., 8 line drawings
The art of the Sistine Chapel, decorated by artists who competed with one another and commissioned by popes who were equally competitive, is a complex fabric of thematic, chronological, and artistic references. Four main campaigns were undertaken to...
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Harald Szeemann Museum of Obsessions
ISBN: HB: 9781606065594, Getty Publications, April 2018
432 pp., 30.9x24.7 cm, 240 colour illus., 122 black&white illus.
Harald Szeemann is associated with some of the most important artistic developments of the postwar era. A passionate advocate of avant-garde movements like conceptualism and post minimalism, he collaborated with artists such as Joseph Beuys, Bruce Na...
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Maria Sibylla Merian Artist, Scientist, Adventurer
ISBN: HB: 9781947440012, Getty Publications, March 2018
96 pp., 25.9x22.3 cm, 116 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.
In 1660, at the age of thirteen, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) began her study of butterfly metamorphosis-years before any other scientist published an accurate description of the process. Later, Merian and her daughter ventured thousands of miles...
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£16,99
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Golden Kingdoms Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas
ISBN: HB: 9781606065488, Getty Publications, September 2017
320 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring some three hundred works of art rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity u...
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£50,00
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When Galleries Shake Earthquake Damage Mitigation for Museum Collections
ISBN: PB: 9781606065228, Getty Publications, August 2017
280 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 131 colour illus., 37 black&white illus., 33 line drawings
Earthquakes pose myriad dangers to heritage collections worldwide. This book provides an accessible introduction to these dangers and to the methodologies developed at the Getty and other museums internationally for mitigating seismic vulnerability....
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Explodity Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art
ISBN: HB: 9781606065082, Getty Publications, December 2016
248 pp., 25x15 cm
The artists books made in Russia between 1910 and 1915 are like no others. Unique in their fusion of the verbal, visual, and sonic, these books are meant to be read, looked at, and listened to. Painters and poets including Natalia Goncharova, Velimir...
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Conservation Practices on Archaeological Excavations Principles and Methods
ISBN: HB: 9781606061589, Getty Publications, May 2014
168 pp., 26.5x19.4 cm, 88 black&white illus.
This book is essential reading for archaeologists working in the field, as well as conservation scientists, museum curators and students of archaeology. The relationship between archaeology and conservation has long been complex and, at times, challe...
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