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Art Conservation

Papers on Special Techniques in Athenian Vases

Lapatin Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9780892369010, Getty Publications, September 2008
264 pp., 27.9x19.7 cm, 140 colour and black&white illus.

In June 2006, the J. Paul Getty Museum hosted an international symposium to coincide with the exhibition The Colours of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases. The themes of the exhibition – vases executed in bilingual, coral-red gloss, outline,...

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Contemporary Art

Paul McCarthy Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement: Three Installations, Two Films

Iles Chrissie

ISBN: HB: 9780300141382, Yale University Press, August 2008
80 pp., 24.1x22.2 cm, 5 black&white illus., 25 colour illus.

This is the first publication to explore the role of mirrors, spinning, and "neurotic" architecture – a feeling of psychological breakdown – in the work of one of America's most important contemporary artists, Paul McCarthy (b. 1945). The book is pub...

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History of Art

Painting Out of the Ordinary Modernity and the Art of Everyday Life in Early Nineteenth-century Britain

Solkin David H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300140613, Yale University Press, July 2008
384 pp., 29.5x24.8 cm, 100 black&white illus., 150 colour illus.

At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, London's art world was taken by storm by a new generation of painters, whose novel approach to the depiction of everyday life critics loudly trumpeted as a sign of the nation's cultural pre-eminence. Led by the p...

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Children's Books

Painting Book Journey in the World of Fantasy with Hundertwasser

ISBN: PB: 9783791341132, Prestel Publishing, July 2008
32 pp., 28x24 cm, 16 colour illus., 16 black&white illus.

Big art for little hands, these enchanting activity books allow young artists to explore the world's masterpieces on their own terms and with plenty of space to color outside the lines.

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Art Conservation

History of Art

Painter's Voice The Restoration of Two Master Paintings

Friedkin William

ISBN: PB: 9780892369133, Getty Publications, June 2008
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Academy Award-winning filmmaker William Friedkin examines the intersection of science and art as he follows the painstaking efforts of conservators at the J. Paul Getty Museum to restore French master Jean-Baptiste Oudry's original vision of two of h...

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Contemporary Art

Puppet Show

Schaffner Ingrid, Kuoni Carin

ISBN: PB: 9780884541134, DAP, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, May 2008
128 pp., 25.4x18.4 cm, 100 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! At first glance, "The Puppet Show" seems a flip title. Organized by Philadelphia ICA Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner and Carin Kuoni, this exhibition catalogue focuses – with both humor and gravity – on the surprisingly pro...

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Postcards

Postcards from the Russian Revolution

Roberts Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781851243860, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2008
96 pp., 12.6x17 cm, 88 colour illus.

The Bolshevik revolution of 1917 was one of the most important events of the 20th century. It has been studied from many angles, but never before from the visual perspective of postcards, a surprising number of which were published around the event,...

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Postcards

Postcards from the Trenches

Roberts Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781851243914, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2008
112 pp., 12.6x17 cm, 106 colour illus.

The First World War was unique in being fought largely in trenches. Men ate, slept, fought, played, sang, prayed, and died in the trenches. This book brings together a collection of postcards which portray this strange subterranean world in its vario...

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History of Art

Politics, Transgression, and Representation at the Court of Charles II

MacLeod Catharine, Marciari Alexander Julia, Harris Tim, O'Connell Sheila, Roach Joseph, Sharpe Kevin, Shifrin Susan, Walkling Andrew, Weil Rachel, Zwicker Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780300116564, Yale University Press, February 2008
214 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 90 colour illus.

The return of Charles II to the English throne after eleven years of Interregnum heralded the beginning of a new era in which the court was characterized by the licentious behaviour of the new king. Edited by the authors of the critically acclaimed "...

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Contemporary Art

Pop Art Is

Francis Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300138993, Yale University Press, January 2008
180 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, more than 100 colour illus.

On January 26, 1957, Richard Hamilton wrote a now-famous letter outlining his definition of what "Pop Art Is". This volume celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of Hamilton's prophetic document, presenting the works of more than forty artists from his...

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