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Fluxus Means Change Jean Brown's Avant-Garde Archive
ISBN: HB: 9781606066621, Getty Publications, December 2020
144 pp., 0x0 cm
An exploration of the radical artists who transformed the ways art is conceived, exhibited, and collected, through the Dada, Surrealist, and Fluxus collections of Jean and Leonard Brown. Throughout the 1960s, Jean and Leonard Brown used their radical...
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Artists and Their Books, Books and Their Artists
ISBN: HB: 9781606065730, Getty Publications, July 2018
200 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 184 colour illus.
Ever innovative and predictably diverse in their physical formats, artists' books occupy a creative space between the familiar four-cornered object and challenging works of art that effectively question every preconception of what a book can be. Many...
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Keep it Moving? Conserving Kinetic Art
ISBN: PB: 9781606065389, Getty Publications, May 2018
208 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Kinetic art not only includes movement but often depends on it to produce an intended effect and therefore fully realize its nature as art. It can take a multiplicity of forms and include a wide range of motion, from motorized and electrically driven...
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£48,00
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Hans Hofmann The Artists Materials
ISBN: PB: 9781606064870, Getty Publications, August 2016
140 pp., 25x15 cm, 40 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.
This gorgeously illustrated book examines the practice and materials of a prominent Abstract Expressionist. The career of the German-American painter and educator Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) describes the arc of artistic modernism from pre-World War I M...
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£30,00
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Made in Los Angeles Materials, Processes, and the Birth of West Coast Minimalism
ISBN: PB: 9781606064658, Getty Publications, March 2016
208 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
In the 1960s, a group of Los Angeles artists fashioned a body of work that has come to be known as the LA Look or West Coast Minimalism. Its distinct aesthetic is characterized by clean lines, simple shapes, and pristine reflective or translucent sur...
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Edible Monument The Art of Food for Festivals
ISBN: HB: 9781606064542, Getty Publications, October 2015
192 pp., 25x15 cm, 91 colour illus.
"The Edible Monument" considers the elaborate architecture, sculpture, and floats designed for court and civic celebrations in early modern Europe, including popular festivals such as Carnival and the Italian Cuccagna. Like illuminations and firework...
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£27,50
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Stained Glass Radiant Art
ISBN: PB: 9781606061534, Getty Publications, September 2013
112 pp., 23x15.4 cm, 80 colour illus.
This is a beautifully illustrated discussion on the making of stained glass and its enduring iconography. Stained glass is a monumental art, a corporate enterprise dependent on collaboration between patron and artist. Combining the fields now known a...
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£14,99
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Jean Paul Riopelle The Artist's Materials
ISBN: PB: 9781606060865, Getty Publications, October 2011
96 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 28 colour illus., 6 black&white illus., 4 line drawings
This is the first full-length English language study of one of the most important Canadian artists of the 20th century. Jean Paul Riopelle (1923-2002) was one of the most important Canadian artists of the 20th century. He began his career in Montreal...
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£30,00
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Terra 2008 The 10th International Conference on the Study and Conservation of Earthen Architectural Heritage
ISBN: PB: 9781606060438, Getty Publications, May 2011
456 pp., 27.9x22.7 cm, 181 colour illus., 208 black&white illus.
This title explores the issues surrounding the study and conservation of earthen architecture. Earthen architecture constitutes one of the most diverse forms of cultural heritage and one of the most challenging to preserve. It dates from all periods...
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£60,00
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Symbols of Power in Art
ISBN: PB: 9781606060667, Getty Publications, April 2011
384 pp., 20x13.7 cm, 400 colour illus.
This title is a superbly illustrated and insightful guide to the symbols of power in Western art. This latest volume in the acclaimed "Guide to Imagery series" examines the way that sovereign rulers have employed well-defined symbols, attributes and...
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£16,99
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