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Looking at Jewelry A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques
ISBN: PB: 9781606065990, Getty Publications, June 2019
304 pp., 23.2x15.8 cm, colour illus.
The fascination with personal adornment is universal. It is a preoccupation that is primal, instinctive, and uniquely human. 'Jewelry' encompasses a seemingly endless number of ornaments produced across time and in all cultures. The range of material...
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£14,99
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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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£18,99
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Reims on Fire War and Reconciliation between France and Germany
ISBN: HB: 9781606065709, Getty Publications, May 2018
296 pp., 22.2x15.9 cm, 35 colour illus., 65 black&white illus.
As the site of royal coronations, Reims cathedral was a monument to French national history and identity. But after German troops bombed the cathedral during World War I, it took on new meaning. The French reimagined it as a martyr of civilisation, a...
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Dialogue on the Errors and Abuses of Painters
ISBN: PB: 9781606065563, Getty Publications, April 2018
280 pp., 25.2x17.9 cm, 37 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.
Giovanni Andrea Gilio's "Dialogue on the Errors and Abuses of Painters" (1564) is one of the first treatises on art published in the post-Tridentine period. It remains a key primary source for the discussion of the reform of art as it unfolded at the...
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£45,00
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Giovanni Bellini Landscape of Faith in Renaissance Venice
ISBN: HB: 9781606065310, Getty Publications, October 2017
128 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Praised by Albrecht Du rer as being "the best in painting", Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1430-1516) is unquestionably the supreme Venetian painter of the quattrocento and one of the greatest Italian artists of all time. His landscapes assume a prominence un...
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£30,00
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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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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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Book on the Floor Andrew Malraux and the Imaginaru Museum
ISBN: HB: 9781606065013, Getty Publications, November 2016
240 pp., 25x15 cm
In 1954, the French writer, politician, and publisher Andre Malraux (1901-1976) posed at home for a photographer from the magazine "Paris Match", surrounded by pages from his forthcoming book "Le musee imaginaire de la sculpture mondiale". The enchan...
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£35,00
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Cultural Memories in the Roman Empire
ISBN: HB: 9781606064627, Getty Publications, January 2016
376 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Memory studies one of the most vibrant research fields of the present day brings together such diverse disciplines as art and archaeology, history, religion, literature, sociology, media studies, and neuroscience. In scholarship on ancient Rome, stud...
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£65,00
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King Seen from the Sky
ISBN: HB: 9781606064603, Getty Publications, October 2015
36 pp., 25x15 cm, 32 colour illus.
This delightful book by award-winning children's book author and illustrator Bruno Gibert is intended for five- to seven-year-olds. It is inspired by the true story of the first flight of living creatures in a handmade aircraft. On September 19, 1783...
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£12,99
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