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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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Artistry in Bronze The Greeks and Their Legacy XIXth Internationl Congress on Ancient Bronzes
ISBN: PB: 9781606065419, Getty Publications, November 2017
492 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
The papers in this volume derive from the proceedings of the nineteenth International Bronze Congress, held at the Getty Center and Villa in October 2015 in connection with the exhibition Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World. T...
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£75,00
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Notes Towards a Conditional Art
ISBN: PB: 9781606065501, Getty Publications, October 2017
352 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Robert Irwin began his career in the 1950s as an abstract painter. As a pioneer of the Light and Space movement in Los Angeles in the 1970s and early '80s, Irwin focused on exploring aesthetic perception as the fundamental feature of art, culminating...
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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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£14,99
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Sacred Landscapes Nature in Renaissance Lanscapes
ISBN: HB: 9781606065464, Getty Publications, October 2017
112 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Distant blue hills, soaring trees, vast cloudless skies-the majesty of nature has always had the power to lift the human spirit. For some it evokes a sense of timelessness and wonder. For others it reinforces religious convictions. And for many peopl...
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£18,99
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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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Conservation and Presentation of Mosaics: At What Cost? Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the INTL Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics
ISBN: HB: 9781606065334, Getty Publications, September 2017
422 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
In recent years, funding for the conservation of cultural heritage has become increasingly difficult to obtain, and this trend shows no sign of changing significantly in the foreseeable future. The twelfth triennial meeting of the International Commi...
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£69,00
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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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£45,00
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David Lamelas A Life of Their Own
ISBN: HB: 9781606065433, Getty Publications, September 2017
200 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
The renowned Argentinian conceptual artist David Lamelas (born 1946) has an expansive oeuvre, which shows his work to be evocative, restive, and exhilarating. This book, published to coincide with the first monographic exhibition of the artist's work...
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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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