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Secrets of Pompeii Everyday Life in Ancient Rome
ISBN: HB: 9780892369416, Getty Publications, September 2009
200 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 170 colour illus., maps
This title presents a lavishly illustrated and fascinating exploration of the art, architecture, and archaeology of one of the world's best preserved Roman cities. The remains of the ancient city of Pompeii, frozen in time following the tragic erupti...
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£35,00
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Adelaide Labille-Guiard Artist in the Age of Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780892369546, Getty Publications, July 2009
144 pp., 23.5x19.7 cm, 46 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
This book features a fascinating exploration of the life and works of one of Revolutionary France's most significant female artists. Adelaide Labille-Guiard (1749-1803) was a remarkable portraitist and painter, she was also one of the very few women...
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£25,00
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Fruits of Desire A Seventeenth-Century Carved Ivory Cup
ISBN: HB: 9780892369409, Getty Publications, July 2009
56 pp., 22.2x12.7 cm, 25 colour illus.
This is a delightfully illustrated exploration of one of the most revered pieces of seventeenth-century ivory carving in the world. An extraordinary achievement in terms of its artistic rendering of the human body, its masterful carving of details, a...
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£11,99
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Sculpture and Enlightenment
ISBN: HB: 9780892369591, Getty Publications, July 2009
336 pp., 26.7x19 cm, 33 colour illus., 78 black&white illus.
This is a unique volume that explores the ways in which the aesthetics of public art were affected by the social, political, and cultural changes of the Enlightenment. This pioneering book chronicles the transformation of public art in eighteenth-cen...
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Seeing the Getty Collections At the Getty Center
ISBN: PB: 9780892369621, Getty Publications, July 2009
64 pp., 15.2x15.2 cm, 70 colour illus.
This is a delightfully illustrated volume that offers readers an entertaining and informative virtual tour through the magnificent art of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Featuring works of art from the legendary collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, thi...
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£7,99
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Jo Ann Callis Woman Twirling
ISBN: HB: 9780892369560, Getty Publications, May 2009
96 pp., 25.4x24.1 cm, 69 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.
This volume offers a superbly illustrated review of the work of renowned photographer Jo Ann Callis. An artist who has long exploited the emotional power of colour and texture, Jo Ann Callis is widely known for her inventive photographs involving tac...
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£25,00
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Paul Outerbridge Command Performance
ISBN: HB: 9780892369614, Getty Publications, May 2009
144 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 48 colour illus., 62 duotone illus.
In the 1920s, a young American – Paul Outerbridge (1896-1958) burst onto the photographic art scene with images that were visually fresh, technically adept, and decidedly Modernist. Not only did he re-invigorate the photographic art of the period, he...
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£30,00
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Carleton Watkins in Yosemite
ISBN: HB: 9780892369454, Getty Publications, April 2009
88 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 50 colour illus.,1 map
This is a stunning photographic journey around the great Yosemite Valley, following in the footsteps of one of its first surveyors. Carleton Eugene Watkins (1829-1916) was one of the most highly acclaimed early western photographers, and one of the f...
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£25,00
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Death and Resurrection in Art
ISBN: PB: 9780892369478, Getty Publications, April 2009
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.
This title presents a gloriously illustrated exploration of 3,000 years of the iconography of death and resurrection in world art. As one of the unavoidable realities of human existence, death is also one of the oldest and most common themes in art....
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£16,99
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Discovering Art Dogs
ISBN: HB: 9780892369492, Getty Publications, April 2009
22 pp., 14x14 cm, colour illus.
These three colourful board books are filled with delightful images from the art gallery but not just any images: the first contains images of dogs, the second, cats and the third, children. Each book also has a read-aloud rhyme and is designed and w...
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£3,99
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