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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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History of Art

Angels and Demons in Art

Giorgi Rosa

ISBN: PB: 9780892368303, Getty Publications, November 2005
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.

This sumptuously illustrated volume analyzes artists' representations of angels and demons and heaven and hell from the Judeo-Christian tradition and describes how these artistic portrayals evolved over time. As with other books in the "Guide to Imag...

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History of Art

European Art of the Fifteenth Century

Zuffi Stefano

ISBN: PB: 9780892368310, Getty Publications, November 2005
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.

Influenced by a revival of interest in Greco-Roman ideals and sponsored by a newly prosperous merchant class, fifteenth-century artists produced works of astonishingly innovative content and technique. The International Gothic style of painting, stil...

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Photography

Milton Rogavin The Mining Photographs

Rogovin Milton, Keller Judith

ISBN: HB: 9780892368112, Getty Publications, October 2005
144 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 126 black&white illus.

Born in New York in 1909, Milton Rogovin has been photographing coal miners since 1962, working first in Appalachia and later, in the 1980s, in Europe, Asia, South Africa, China, Mexico, and Cuba. Particularly in these later portraits he concentrated...

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History of Art

Early Netherlandish Paintings Rediscovery, Reception and Research

Ridderbos Bernhard, van Buren Anne, van Veen Henk

ISBN: HB: 9780892368167, Getty Publications, October 2005
481 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 118 black&white illus., 52 colour illus.

In the fifteenth century, a number of master painters, including Jan van Eyck and Roger Campin, flourished in the Netherlands. However, by the early nineteenth century many of their works had been dispersed by the upheavals of the French Revolution....

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Photography

Biography & Memoires

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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