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Angels and Demons in Art
ISBN: PB: 9780892368303, Getty Publications, November 2005
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.
This sumptuously illustrated volume analyzes artists' representations of angels and demons and heaven and hell from the Judeo-Christian tradition and describes how these artistic portrayals evolved over time. As with other books in the "Guide to Imag...
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£16,99
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Pop-Up Aesop
ISBN: HB: 9780892368143, Getty Publications, November 2005
12 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 7 colour illus.
Aesop was the greatest fable-maker of them all, and many of his tales have become famous through the centuries – among them "The Fox and the Grapes", "The Ant and the Grasshopper", and "The Country Mouse and the City Mouse". Now – in the first-ever p...
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£14,99
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European Art of the Fifteenth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780892368310, Getty Publications, November 2005
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.
Influenced by a revival of interest in Greco-Roman ideals and sponsored by a newly prosperous merchant class, fifteenth-century artists produced works of astonishingly innovative content and technique. The International Gothic style of painting, stil...
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£18,99
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Library of Villa Dei Papiri at Herculaneum
ISBN: PB: 9780892367993, Getty Publications, October 2005
128 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 40 black&white illus., 42 colour illus.
The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii in A.D. 79 also buried nearby Herculaneum. Over time the location of the small town was forgotten, but shortly after its rediscovery in the 1730s, "excavations" – more properly, treasure hunts – wer...
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£30,00
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Milton Rogavin The Mining Photographs
ISBN: HB: 9780892368112, Getty Publications, October 2005
144 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 126 black&white illus.
Born in New York in 1909, Milton Rogovin has been photographing coal miners since 1962, working first in Appalachia and later, in the 1980s, in Europe, Asia, South Africa, China, Mexico, and Cuba. Particularly in these later portraits he concentrated...
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£45,00
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Early Netherlandish Paintings Rediscovery, Reception and Research
ISBN: HB: 9780892368167, Getty Publications, October 2005
481 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 118 black&white illus., 52 colour illus.
In the fifteenth century, a number of master painters, including Jan van Eyck and Roger Campin, flourished in the Netherlands. However, by the early nineteenth century many of their works had been dispersed by the upheavals of the French Revolution....
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£50,00
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Strong Stuff Herakles and His Labors
ISBN: HB: 9780892367849, Getty Publications, October 2005
32 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 17 colour illus.
Herakles was one of the greatest of all Greek heroes, and his exploits have been celebrated in paintings, songs, poetry, and sculpture for thousands of years. Now it's time for him to have his own children's book, one devoted exclusively to his labou...
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£12,99
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In Focus Weegee
ISBN: PB: 9780892368105, Getty Publications, October 2005
144 pp., 19.4x15.2 cm, 50 black&white illus.
Stalking the streets of New York City at night alongside police detectives and barflies, the tough-talking, fedora-wearing, cigar-smoking photographer who called himself "Weegee" was ready at a moment's notice with his Speed Graphic to respond to the...
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