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Herculaneum and the House of the Bicentenary History and Heritage
ISBN: PB: 9781606066287, Getty Publications, February 2020
160 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
This volume vividly recounts, for general readers, the Roman town of Herculaneum, destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE and uniquely preserved for nearly two thousand years. Initial chapters offer an engaging historical overview of the...
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£25,00
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Uruk The First City of the Ancient World
ISBN: HB: 9781606064443, Getty Publications, January 2020
400 pp., 25x15 cm, 450 colour illus., 34 black&white illus.
This remarkable book unveils the origins of urban life in our ancient past. Over one hundred years ago, discoveries from a German archaeological dig at Uruk, roughly two hundred miles south of present-day Baghdad, sent shock waves through the scholar...
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£60,00
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Historic Cities Issues in Urban Conservation
ISBN: PB: 9781606065938, Getty Publications, July 2019
632 pp., 25x15 cm, colour illus.
This book, the eighth in the Getty Conservation Institute's Readings in Conservation series, fills a significant gap in the published literature on urban conservation. This topic is distinct from both heritage conservation and urban planning, and des...
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£60,00
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Modern Metals in Cultural Heritage Understanding and Characterization
ISBN: PB: 9781606066058, Getty Publications, July 2019
176 pp., 25x15 cm, colour illus.
The proliferation of new metals-such as stainless steels, aluminium alloys and metallic coatings-in modern and contemporary art and architecture has made the need for professionals who can address their conservation more critical than ever. This volu...
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£45,00
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Concrete Case Studies in Conservation Practice
ISBN: PB: 9781606065761, Getty Publications, January 2019
236 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 176 colour illus., 2 line drawings
This timely volume brings together fourteen case studies that address the challenges of conserving the twentieth century's most ubiquitous building material-concrete. Following a meeting of international heritage conservation professionals in 2013, t...
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£45,00
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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...
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£40,00
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Invention of the American Art Museum From Craft to Kulturgeschichte, 1870-1930
ISBN: HB: 9781606064788, Getty Publications, July 2016
256 pp., 25x15 cm, 119 colour illus.
A rigorous account of the European origins of American art museums American art museums share a mission and format that differ from those of their European counterparts, which often have origins in aristocratic collections. This groundbreaking work r...
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£40,00
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Qing Encounters Artistic Exchanges Between China and the West
ISBN: PB: 9781606064573, Getty Publications, November 2015
316 pp., 25x15 cm, 62 colour illus., 46 black&white illus.
"Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West" examines how the encounters between China and Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed the arts on both sides of the East-West divide. The essays in the volum...
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£45,00
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Manuscript Cultures of Colonial Mexico and Peru New Questions and Approaches
ISBN: PB: 9781606064351, Getty Publications, March 2015
224 pp., 25.6x17.7 cm
This volume showcases dynamic developments in the field of manuscript research that go beyond traditional textual, iconographic, or codicological studies. Using state-of-the-art conservation technologies, scholars investigate how four manuscripts – t...
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£42,00
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Mortality Immortality? The Legacy of 20th-Century Art
ISBN: PB: 9780892365289, Getty Publications, November 2014
272 pp., 28.6x26.8 cm, 111 illus.
Which objects or events will define the art of our time? Who will decide what is to be preserved for posterity and how that will be done? If an artist chooses ephemeral materials, should the work be allowed to deteriorate? These are among the questio...
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£30,00
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