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Robert Irwin: Getty Garden Revised Edition
ISBN: HB: 9781606066560, Getty Publications, June 2020
144 pp., 22.7x19.1 cm, 75 colour illus.
Among the most beloved sites at the Getty Center, the Central Garden has aroused intense interest from the moment artist Robert Irwin was awarded the commission. First published in 2002, "Robert Irwin: Getty Garden" is comprised of a series of discus...
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£16,99
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Sarnath A Critical History of the Place Where Buddhism Began
ISBN: PB: 9781606066164, Getty Publications, February 2020
192 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Sarnath has long been regarded as the place where the Buddha preached his first sermon and established the Buddhist monastic order. Excavations at Sarnath have yielded the foundations of temples and monastic dwellings, two Buddhist reliquary mounds (...
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£30,00
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Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz's Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leadi
ISBN: HB: 9781606066249, Getty Publications, January 2020
368 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Baron Joseph Friedrich von Racknitz's pioneering Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations in Relation to the Interior Decoration of Rooms and to Architecture (Darstellung und Geschichte des Geschmacks der vorzuglichsten Voelker in...
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£65,00
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Tremaine Houses One Family's Patronage of Domestic Architecture in Midcentury America
ISBN: HB: 9781606066140, Getty Publications, November 2019
224 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
From the late 1930s to the early 1970s, two brothers, Burton G. Tremaine and Warren D. Tremaine, and their respective wives, Emily Hall Tremaine and Katharine Williams Tremaine, commissioned approximately thirty architecture and design projects. Rich...
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£45,00
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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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Pierre Koenig A View from the Archive
ISBN: HB: 9781606065778, Getty Publications, February 2019
320 pp., 28x25.4 cm, illus.
In this remarkable and gorgeously illustrated book, Neil Jackson presents a vibrant profile of the Los Angeles architect Pierre Koenig, who Time magazine said lived long enough to become "cool twice". From the influences of Koenig's youth in San Fran...
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Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art The Arthur Drexler Years, 1951-1986
ISBN: HB: 9781606065815, Getty Publications, January 2019
208 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, illus.
Arthur Drexler (1921-1987) served as the curator and director of the Architecture and Design Department at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) from 1951 until 1986-the longest curatorship in the museum's history. Over four decades he conceived and oversa...
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£40,00
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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...
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£11,99
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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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