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French Rococo Ebénisterie in the J. Paul Getty Museum 
ISBN: PB: 9781606066300, Getty Publications, April 2021
372 pp., 0x0 cm
The first comprehensive catalogue of the Getty Museum's significant collection of French Rococo ebenisterie furniture. This catalogue focuses on French ebenisterie furniture in the Rococo style dating from 1735 to 1760. These splendid objects directl...
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Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance A Contribution to the History of Collecting
ISBN: PB: 9781606066652, Getty Publications, January 2021
224 pp., 0x0 cm
For the first time, the pioneering book that launched the study of art and curiosity cabinets is available in English. Julius von Schlosser's Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spatrenaissance (Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance) is a s...
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Samuel van Hoogstraten's Introduction to the Academy of Painting; or, The Visible World
ISBN: PB: 9781606066676, Getty Publications, January 2021
424 pp., 0x0 cm
A unique seventeenth-century account of painting as it was practiced, taught, and discussed during a period of extraordinary artistic and intellectual ferment in the Netherlands. The only comprehensive work on painting written by a Dutch artist in th...
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Visualizing Empire Africa, Europe, and the Politics of Representation
ISBN: PB: 9781606066683, Getty Publications, January 2021
200 pp., 0x0 cm
An exploration of how an official French visual culture normalized France's colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects to racialized ideas of life in the empire. By the end of World War I, having fortified its colonial holdings in the Caribbe...
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Fluxus Means Change Jean Brown's Avant-Garde Archive
ISBN: HB: 9781606066621, Getty Publications, December 2020
144 pp., 0x0 cm
An exploration of the radical artists who transformed the ways art is conceived, exhibited, and collected, through the Dada, Surrealist, and Fluxus collections of Jean and Leonard Brown. Throughout the 1960s, Jean and Leonard Brown used their radical...
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Values in Heritage Management Emerging Approaches and Research
ISBN: PB: 9781606066188, Getty Publications, December 2020
278 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Over the last fifty years, conservation professionals have confronted increasingly complex political, economic, and cultural dynamics. This volume, with contributions by leading international practitioners and scholars, reviews how values-based metho...
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Hollywood Arensberg Avant-Garde Collecting in Midcentury L.A.
ISBN: HB: 9781606066669, Getty Publications, October 2020
448 pp., 0x0 cm
This comprehensive reconstruction and interpretation of Louise and Walter Arensberg's groundbreaking collection of modern and pre-Columbian art takes readers room by room, wall by wall, object by object through the couple's Los Angeles home in which...
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Imogen Cunningham A Retrospective
ISBN: HB: 9781606066751, Getty Publications, September 2020
256 pp., 0x0 cm
Thoroughly researched and beautifully produced, this catalogue complements the first comprehensive retrospective in the United States of Imogen Cunningham's work in over thirty-five years. Celebrated American artist Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) enjo...
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Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta A Sixteenth-Century Calligraphic Manuscript Inscribed by Georg Bocskay and Illuminated by Joris Joefnagel
ISBN: HB: 9781606066584, Getty Publications, September 2020
424 pp., 0x0 cm
In 1561-62 the master calligrapher Georg Bocskay (died 1575), imperial secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, created Mira calligraphiae monumenta (Model Book of Calligraphy) as a demonstration of his own preeminence among scribes. Some thi...
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Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt Emerging Research from the APPEAR Project
ISBN: PB: 9781606066546, Getty Publications, September 2020
228 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 160 colour illus. illus; 26 diagrams, tables
Once interred with mummified remains, nearly a thousand funerary portraits from Roman Egypt survive today in museums around the world, bringing viewers face-to-face with people who lived two thousand years ago. Until recently, few of these paintings...
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