art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation

Name your list

Log in / Sign in

ta strona jest nieczynna, ale zapraszamy serdecznie na stronę www.obibook.com /// this website is closed but we cordially invite you to visit www.obibook.com

Keep it Moving? Conserving Kinetic Art
ISBN: PB: 9781606065389, Getty Publications, May 2018
208 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Kinetic art not only includes movement but often depends on it to produce an intended effect and therefore fully realize its nature as art. It can take a multiplicity of forms and include a wide range of motion, from motorized and electrically driven...
PB:
£48,00
QTY:
Reims on Fire War and Reconciliation between France and Germany
ISBN: HB: 9781606065709, Getty Publications, May 2018
296 pp., 22.2x15.9 cm, 35 colour illus., 65 black&white illus.
As the site of royal coronations, Reims cathedral was a monument to French national history and identity. But after German troops bombed the cathedral during World War I, it took on new meaning. The French reimagined it as a martyr of civilisation, a...
HB:
£45,00
QTY:
Guide to the Getty Villa Revised Edition
ISBN: PB: 9781606065471, Getty Publications, May 2018
132 pp., 24.4x14.1 cm, 165 colour illus., 20 black&white illus., 3 maps
It begins with the history of the site, recounting how, as J. Paul Getty's art collection grew, he chose to house it in a replica of the ancient Roman villa at Herculaneum now known as the Villa dei Papiri. The second chapter chronicles the destructi...
PB:
£11,99
QTY:
Beyond the Nile Egypt and the Classical World
ISBN: HB: 9781606065518, Getty Publications, April 2018
360 pp., 29.9x24.7 cm, 322 colour illus., 16 black&white illus., 1 table
From about 2000 BCE onward, Egypt served as an important nexus for cultural exchange in the eastern Mediterranean, importing and exporting not just wares but also new artistic techniques and styles. Egyptian, Greek, and Roman craftsmen imitated one a...
HB:
£50,00
QTY:
Dialogue on the Errors and Abuses of Painters
ISBN: PB: 9781606065563, Getty Publications, April 2018
280 pp., 25.2x17.9 cm, 37 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.
Giovanni Andrea Gilio's "Dialogue on the Errors and Abuses of Painters" (1564) is one of the first treatises on art published in the post-Tridentine period. It remains a key primary source for the discussion of the reform of art as it unfolded at the...
PB:
£45,00
QTY:
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...
HB:
£55,00
QTY:
Harald Szeemann Selected Writings
ISBN: PB: 9781606065549, Getty Publications, April 2018
424 pp., 23.3x17.2 cm, 32 colour illus., 69 black&white illus.
Born in Bern, Switzerland in 1933, Harald Szeemann was a crucial force in identifying, exhibiting, and writing about the important new movements in postwar contemporary art. This collection of seventy-four texts from the curator's vast body of writte...
PB:
£40,00
QTY:
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...
HB:
£16,99
QTY:
Paper Promises Early American Photography
ISBN: HB: 9781606065495, Getty Publications, March 2018
224 pp., 28.6x24.7 cm, 187 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
Scholarship on photography's earliest years has tended to focus on daguerreotypes on metal or on the European development of paper photographs made from glass or paper negative. But Americans also experimented with negative-positive processes to prod...
HB:
£40,00
QTY:
Promote, Tolerate, Ban Culture and Art in Cold War Hungary
ISBN: HB: 9781606065396, Getty Publications, March 2018
160 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
In the fall of 1956, Hungarians led a successful rebellion against Soviet control. How-ever, after only ten days of freedom, the uprising was brutally crushed, and the Soviet-aligned minister Janos Kadar assumed power. Focusing on the Kadar era (1956...
HB:
£40,00
QTY: