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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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Plato in L.A. Contemporary Artists' Visions
ISBN: PB: 9781606065747, Getty Publications, June 2018
112 pp., 22.9x19.1 cm, 20 colour illus.
No thinker in the West has had a wider and more sustained influence than the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. From philosophy to drama, religion to politics, it is difficult to find a current cultural or social phenomenon that is not in some aspect i...
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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...
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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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Photography and Sculpture The Art Object in Reproduction
ISBN: PB: 9781606065341, Getty Publications, December 2017
328 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Ever since the mid-nineteenth century, when the new medium of photography was pressed into service to illustrate sculpture, photographs of sculptural objects have directed viewers as to what, in the course of ambling around a sculpture, was the singl...
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Photographic The Life of Graciela Iturbide
ISBN: HB: 9781947440005, Getty Publications, October 2017
96 pp., 23.6x17.9 cm, 25 duotone photos, 67 black&white illus.
Graciela Iturbide was born in Mexico City in 1942, the oldest of thirteen children. When tragedy strikes Iturbide as a young mother, she turns to photography for solace and understanding. From then on Iturbide embarks on a photographic journey that t...
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Photography in Argentina Contradiction and Continuity
ISBN: HB: 9781606065327, Getty Publications, September 2017
332 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
From its independence in 1810 until the economic crisis of 2001, Argentina has been seen, in the national and international collective imaginary, as a modern country with a powerful economic system, a massive European immigrant population, an especia...
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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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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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Polychrome Sculpture Meaning, Form, Conservation
ISBN: PB: 9781606064337, Getty Publications, August 2015
216 pp., 25x15 cm, 240 colour illus.
This book features a masterwork in the field of conservation published in English for the first time. In the decades since its initial publication in German in 1978, Polychrome Sculpture has come to be widely regarded as a watershed text on the makin...
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