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Japanese Zen Buddhism and the Impossible Painting
ISBN: PB: 9781606065129, Getty Publications, February 2017
80 pp., 25x15 cm
Zen art poses a conundrum. On the one hand, Zen Buddhism emphasizes the concept of emptiness, which among other things asserts that form is empty, that all phenomena in the world are illusory. On the other hand, a prodigious amount of artwork has bee...
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J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collection
ISBN: PB: 9781606064498, Getty Publications, June 2015
392 pp., 25x15 cm, 374 colour illus.
This book is a revised and fully updated guide to major objects in the collections at the Getty. This gorgeous new edition of "The J Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collection" features over 350 of the museum's most beloved objects. Updated to incl...
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Jackson Pollock's Mural The Transitional Moment
ISBN: HB: 9781606063231, Getty Publications, March 2014
192 pp., 26.2x23.7 cm, colour and black&white illus.
This is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the making of a post-war masterpiece and its restoration. In many ways, "Mural", Jackson Pollock's (1912-1956) first large-scale painting represents the birth of his legend. The controversial artist's c...
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Japan's Modern Divide The Photographs of Hiroshi Hanaya and Kansuke Yamamoto
ISBN: HB: 9781606061329, Getty Publications, February 2013
224 pp., 28.8x24.5 cm, 112 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
This title offers a superbly illustrated overview of the evolution of two very different strains of modern Japanese photography. In the 1930s, Japanese photography evolved in two very directions: one toward a documentary style, the other favouring an...
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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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Joys of Collecting
ISBN: PB: 9781606060872, Getty Publications, September 2011
80 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 15 black&white illus.
This title offers an insightful and revealing personal account of one man's consuming passion for collecting. In 1965, shortly after founding his namesake museum in Malibu, California, J. Paul Getty penned reminiscence about "the romance and zest – t...
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Julius Schulman's Los Angeles
ISBN: PB: 9781606060797, Getty Publications, September 2011
72 pp., 16.6x13.5 cm, 60 duotone photos
This title presents a pictorial history of the "City of the Future" throughout the 20th century. The celebrated architectural photographer Julius Shulman (1910-2009) is one of the few image makers to have documented, as well as witnessed, nearly an e...
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J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Antiquities Collection
ISBN: PB: 9780892369980, Getty Publications, July 2010
264 pp., 24.5x14.3 cm, 200 colour illus., 12 black&white illus.
This is a stunningly illustrated examination of nearly two-hundred of the most important pieces in the J. Paul Getty Museum's Antiquities Collection. The antiquities collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles contains more than fifty thous...
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Jo Ann Callis Woman Twirling
ISBN: HB: 9780892369560, Getty Publications, May 2009
96 pp., 25.4x24.1 cm, 69 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.
This volume offers a superbly illustrated review of the work of renowned photographer Jo Ann Callis. An artist who has long exploited the emotional power of colour and texture, Jo Ann Callis is widely known for her inventive photographs involving tac...
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J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections
ISBN: PB: 9780892368877, Getty Publications, February 2008
336 pp., 24.1x14 cm, 384 colour and black&white illus.
Fully revised and updated to include many major new pieces, as well as the more familiar masterpieces that millions of visitors have become acquainted with over the years, this superb volume presents a visually stunning journey through the unique col...
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