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David Lamelas A Life of Their Own
ISBN: HB: 9781606065433, Getty Publications, September 2017
200 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
The renowned Argentinian conceptual artist David Lamelas (born 1946) has an expansive oeuvre, which shows his work to be evocative, restive, and exhilarating. This book, published to coincide with the first monographic exhibition of the artist's work...
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£45,00
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Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech
ISBN: HB: 9781606065303, Getty Publications, September 2017
292 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
"Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech" reassesses one of the most influential voices in twentieth-century architectural history through a detailed examination of Banham's writing on High Tech architecture and its immediate antecedents. Taking...
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£40,00
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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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Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: PB: 9781606065136, Getty Publications, August 2017
510 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 1 map, 56 line drawings
In the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum are more than six hundred ancient lamps that span the sixth century BCE to the seventh century CE, most from the Roman Imperial period and largely created in Asia Minor or North Africa. These lamps have m...
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£100,00
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Making Art Concrete Works from Argentina and Brazil in the Coleccion Patricia Phelps Cisneros
ISBN: HB: 9781606065297, Getty Publications, August 2017
192 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
In the years after World War II, artists in Argentinaand Brazil experimented with geometric abstractionand engaged in lively debates about the role of theartwork in society. Some of these artists used novelsynthetic materials, creating objects that o...
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£30,00
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Prometheus 2017 Four Artists from Mexico Revisit Orozco
ISBN: HB: 9781606065440, Getty Publications, August 2017
244 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Jose Clemente Orozco's 1930 mural, Prometheus, created for the Pomona College campus, is a dramatic and gripping examination of heroism. This thoughtful exhibition catalogue examines the multiple ways Orozco's vision resonates with four artists worki...
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£35,00
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Revolution and Ritual The Photographs of Sara Castrejon, Graciela Iturbide, and Tatiana Parcero
ISBN: PB: 9781606065457, Getty Publications, August 2017
190 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
This richly illustrated catalogue features photographs by three Mexican women, each representing a different generation, who have explored and transform notions of Mexican identity in works that range from the documentary to the poetic. Revolution an...
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£25,00
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First Exposures Writings from the Beginning of Photography
ISBN: PB: 9781606065242, Getty Publications, August 2017
520 pp., 25x15 cm, 53 black&white illus.
An exact date for the invention of photography is evasive. Scientists and amateurs alike were working on a variety of photographic processes for much of the early nineteenth century. Thus most historians refer to the year 1839 as the first year of ph...
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£40,00
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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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£45,00
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Practical Discourses on the Most Noble Art of Painting
ISBN: PB: 9781606065280, Getty Publications, July 2017
192 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 13 black&white illus.
Jusepe Martinez's "Practical Discourses on the Most Noble Art of Painting" (ca. 1673-1675), though little known today, was highly influential on art, artists, and artistic practice and theory in Spain long after its publication. This volume is the fi...
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