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In Focus Carleton Watkins

Palmquist Peter E.

ISBN: PB: 9780892363995, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 19.2x15.4 cm, 55 duotone illus.

The career of the American photographer Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916) spanned more than fifty years. It is his giant photographs of Yosemite, from the "best general view", that most effectively articulate his artistic vision. The J. Paul Getty Muse...

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In Focus August Sander

Sander August, Bohn-Spector Claudia

ISBN: PB: 9780892365678, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 20x15 cm, 55 duotones

The long life of German photographer August Sander (1876-1964) spanned one of the most turbulent eras in his country's history. The Great War of 1914-1918, the Weimar Republic, the reign of National Socialism, and the horrors of World War II all left...

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In Focus William Henry Fox Talbot

Schaaf Larry J.

ISBN: PB: 9780892366606, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 19.4x15.2 cm, 50 colour illus.

William Henry Fox Talbot – a scientist, mathematician, author and artist – is credited with being the inventor of photography as we know it. In mid-1834 he began to experiment with light-sensitive chemistry, and in January 1839 he announced his inven...

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History of Art

Index of Paintings Sold in British Isles During Nineteenth Century Part 1: A-N

Fredericksen Burton B., Armstrong Julia I.

ISBN: HB: 9780892363957, Getty Publications, March 2006
583 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

This work, covering the years 1816-1820, makes the contents of some of the tens of thousands of sales catalogues published during the 19th century accessible to scholars. Information provided includes sales dates and lot numbers, prices and names of...

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Art Conservation

Infrared Spectroscopy in Conservation Science

Derrick Michele R., Stulik Dusan C., Landry James M.

ISBN: PB: 9780892364695, Getty Publications, March 2006
320 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 25 black&white illus., 135 charts

This book provides practical information on the use of infrared spectroscopy for the analysis of materials found in cultural objects. Designed for scientists and students in the fields of archaeology, art conservation, microscopy, forensics, chemistr...

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History of Art

Intelligent Eye Learning to Think by Looking at Art

Perkins David N.

ISBN: PB: 9780892362745, Getty Publications, March 2006
96 pp., 26x22.9 cm, 15 black&white illus.

Attentive observation of art provides an excellent opportunity for better thinking, for the cultivation of the "art of intelligence". The arts are important in an educational setting, therefore, because they can cultivate important thinking strategie...

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Art Conservation

Issues in the Conservation of Paintings

Leonard Mark, Bomford David

ISBN: PB: 9780892367818, ISBN: HB: 9780892367801, Getty Publications, March 2006
520 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 35 black&white illus., 65 colour illus.

This volume on paintings conservation includes more than seventy texts ranging from the fifteenth century to the present day. Some are classic and highly influential writings, others, although little known when first published, in retrospect reflect...

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Contemporary Art

Imagining America Icons of 20th-century American Art

Carlin John, Fineberg Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300109979, Yale University Press, October 2005
208 pp., 29.8x22.8 cm, 400 colour illus.

How did artists of the twentieth century use their work to respond to their unique personal experiences and moment in history? This provocative question is explored in this engaging new book on American art. By focusing on broad, defining themes, emb...

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In Focus Weegee

Keller Judith

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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History of Art

Pelican History of Art

Islamic Art and Architecture, 650-1250

Ettinghausen Richard, Grabar Oleg, Jenkins-Madina Marilyn

ISBN: PB: 9780300088694, Yale University Press, July 2003
352 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 350 black&white illus., 150 colour illus.

This illustrated book provides an overview of Islamic art and architecture during a time that witnessed the formation of a new artistic culture and its first, medieval, flowering in the vast area from the Atlantic to India. Inspired by Ettinghausen a...

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