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History of Art

American Painters on Technique The Colonial Period to 1860

Mayer Lance, Myers Gay

ISBN: HB: 9781606060773, Getty Publications, September 2011
256 pp., 23.7x16.1 cm, 19 colour illus.

This title offers an original survey on Colonial artists' materials and techniques. This is the first comprehensive study of an important but largely anonymous part of the history of American art: the materials and techniques used by American painter...

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Contemporary Art

Gerhard Richter Early Work, 1951-1972

Mehring Christine, Nugent Jeanne, Seydl Jon

ISBN: HB: 9781606060407, Getty Publications, February 2011
176 pp., 26.1x19.7 cm, 14 colour illus., 67 black&white illus.

This title takes an illuminating look at the unique work and artistic vision of Gerhard Richter. Born in Dresden in 1932, Gerhard Richter was first educated under the prevailing doctrine of Socialist Realism, but retrained after emigrating to West Ge...

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History of Art

Imagining the Past in France History in Manuscript Painting, 1250-1500

Morrison Elizabeth, Hedeman Anne D.

ISBN: PB: 9781606060292, ISBN: HB: 9781606060285, Getty Publications, November 2010
384 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 194 colour illus., 1 map

This beautiful volume examines the most important illuminations found in French history manuscripts. From around the mid 13th to the end of the 16th century, the most important and original work being done in secular illumination was unquestionably i...

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Photography

Still Life in Photographs

Martineau Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781606060339, Getty Publications, September 2010
112 pp., 22.6x19.1 cm, 94 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.

Still life is one of the great art forms. The first still life photograph was created around 1827, more than a decade before the news of photography's invention was announced in Paris and London in 1839. There is a resurgence of interest in the still...

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History of Art

Printing the Grant Manner Charles Le Brun and Monumental Prints in the Age of Louis XIV

Marchesano Louis, Michel Christian

ISBN: HB: 9780892369805, Getty Publications, August 2010
120 pp., 31.1x28.7 cm, 47 colour illus., 19 black&white illus.

This is a superbly illustrated survey of the monumental print works of Charles Le Brun, court painter to Louis XIV. This richly illustrated volume illuminates an extraordinary moment in the intertwined history of painting and printmaking in Europe. T...

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Children's Books

ABC of What Art Can Be

McArthur Meher, Watson Esther Pearl

ISBN: HB: 9780892369997, Getty Publications, May 2010
40 pp., 28.3x14.2 cm, 40 colour illus.

This delightful book is a colorful reminder of the many things that visual art can be, become, and do. Whether it's weaving or making pottery or working on your computer or turning junk into something unexpected and wonderful, "An ABC of What Art Can...

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Photography

Paul Outerbridge Command Performance

Martineau Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780892369614, Getty Publications, May 2009
144 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 48 colour illus., 62 duotone illus.

In the 1920s, a young American – Paul Outerbridge (1896-1958) burst onto the photographic art scene with images that were visually fresh, technically adept, and decidedly Modernist. Not only did he re-invigorate the photographic art of the period, he...

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History of Art

Food and Feasting in Art

Malaguzzi Silvia

ISBN: PB: 9780892369140, Getty Publications, May 2008
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.

Deliciously illustrated with masterpieces of western art, this latest volume in the highly acclaimed "Guide to Imagery" series explores the rituals, customs, and symbolism of food and dining in art. It features a dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign...

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History of Art

Fragonard's Allegories of Love

Molotiu Andrei

ISBN: HB: 9780892368976, Getty Publications, February 2008
128 pp., 26.7x21.5 cm, 53 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.

Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) was a French painter whose manner is distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism, as well as a prolific output – he produced more than 550 paintings. One of his most striking pieces, "The Fountain...

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Ancient World

Ashen Sky The Letters of Pliny the Younger on the Eruption of Vesuvius

Moser Barry

ISBN: HB: 9780892369003, Getty Publications, November 2007
40 pp., 21.5x19 cm, 16 detailed relief engravings

Pliny the Younger (61-112 AD) was a Roman official and writer. He has become famous for his two letters to the historian Tacitus, which detail his eye-witness account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD which took the life of his uncle, Pliny...

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