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Biography & Memoires

In Focus Carleton Watkins

Palmquist Peter E.

ISBN: PB: 9780892363995, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 19.2x15.4 cm, 55 duotone illus.

The career of the American photographer Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916) spanned more than fifty years. It is his giant photographs of Yosemite, from the "best general view", that most effectively articulate his artistic vision. The J. Paul Getty Muse...

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Photography

Biography & Memoires

In Focus August Sander

Sander August, Bohn-Spector Claudia

ISBN: PB: 9780892365678, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 20x15 cm, 55 duotones

The long life of German photographer August Sander (1876-1964) spanned one of the most turbulent eras in his country's history. The Great War of 1914-1918, the Weimar Republic, the reign of National Socialism, and the horrors of World War II all left...

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Biography & Memoires

In Focus William Henry Fox Talbot

Schaaf Larry J.

ISBN: PB: 9780892366606, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 19.4x15.2 cm, 50 colour illus.

William Henry Fox Talbot – a scientist, mathematician, author and artist – is credited with being the inventor of photography as we know it. In mid-1834 he began to experiment with light-sensitive chemistry, and in January 1839 he announced his inven...

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Architecture

In What Style Should We Build? German Debate on Architectural Styles

Hubsch Heinrich, Herrman Wolfgang, Wiegmann Rudolf, Rosenthal Carl Albert

ISBN: PB: 9780892361984, Getty Publications, March 2006
220 pp., 26x19.2 cm, 22 black&white illus.

This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics. Hubsch's argument that the technical progress and changed living habits of the nineteenth century rendered neoc...

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History of Art

Index of Paintings Sold in British Isles During Nineteenth Century Part 1: A-N

Fredericksen Burton B., Armstrong Julia I.

ISBN: HB: 9780892363957, Getty Publications, March 2006
583 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

This work, covering the years 1816-1820, makes the contents of some of the tens of thousands of sales catalogues published during the 19th century accessible to scholars. Information provided includes sales dates and lot numbers, prices and names of...

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Art Conservation

Infrared Spectroscopy in Conservation Science

Derrick Michele R., Stulik Dusan C., Landry James M.

ISBN: PB: 9780892364695, Getty Publications, March 2006
320 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 25 black&white illus., 135 charts

This book provides practical information on the use of infrared spectroscopy for the analysis of materials found in cultural objects. Designed for scientists and students in the fields of archaeology, art conservation, microscopy, forensics, chemistr...

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History of Art

Intelligent Eye Learning to Think by Looking at Art

Perkins David N.

ISBN: PB: 9780892362745, Getty Publications, March 2006
96 pp., 26x22.9 cm, 15 black&white illus.

Attentive observation of art provides an excellent opportunity for better thinking, for the cultivation of the "art of intelligence". The arts are important in an educational setting, therefore, because they can cultivate important thinking strategie...

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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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Travel

Seeing the Getty Villa

Ross Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780892368334, Getty Publications, February 2006
64 pp., 15.2x15.2 cm, 70 colour illus.

This beautiful souvenir book captures the visual delights, both man-made and natural, of the newly renovated Getty Villa, set to open in winter 2006. More than seventy colour photographs artfully record the stunning architecture and grounds of the Vi...

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Architecture

Guide to the Getty Villa

ISBN: PB: 9780892368280, Getty Publications, February 2006
120 pp., 24.1x14 cm, 20 black&white illus., 110 colour illus.

The Getty Villa in Malibu includes the only museum in the United States devoted solely to classical antiquities. The Museum building seeks to replicate the ground plan and major architectural features – insofar as they have been studied and documente...

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