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Learned Draftsman Edme Bouchardon
ISBN: HB: 9781606065044, Getty Publications, December 2016
336 pp., 25x15 cm
The celebrated French artist Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762) is primarily known as a sculptor today, but his contemporaries widely lauded him as a draftsman as well. Talented, highly innovative, and deeply invested in the medium, Bouchardon made an impor...
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£50,00
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Los Angeles Central Library
ISBN: HB: 9781606064900, Getty Publications, December 2016
256 pp., 25x15 cm
In the most comprehensive investigation of the Los Angeles Public Library'searly history and architectural genesis ever undertaken, Kenneth Breisch chronicles the institution's first six decades, from its founding as a private library association in...
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£35,00
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Explodity Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art
ISBN: HB: 9781606065082, Getty Publications, December 2016
248 pp., 25x15 cm
The artists books made in Russia between 1910 and 1915 are like no others. Unique in their fusion of the verbal, visual, and sonic, these books are meant to be read, looked at, and listened to. Painters and poets including Natalia Goncharova, Velimir...
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Book on the Floor Andrew Malraux and the Imaginaru Museum
ISBN: HB: 9781606065013, Getty Publications, November 2016
240 pp., 25x15 cm
In 1954, the French writer, politician, and publisher Andre Malraux (1901-1976) posed at home for a photographer from the magazine "Paris Match", surrounded by pages from his forthcoming book "Le musee imaginaire de la sculpture mondiale". The enchan...
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North of Dixie Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South
ISBN: HB: 9781606065051, Getty Publications, October 2016
160 pp., 25x15 cm, 100 black&white illus.
The history of the civil rights movement is commonly illustrated with well-known photographs from Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma-leaving the visual story of the movement outside the South remaining to be told. In North of Dixie, historian Mark Spe...
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£27,50
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Real/Ideal Photography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France
ISBN: HB: 9781606065105, Getty Publications, September 2016
240 pp., 29.6x24.8 cm, 212 colour illus.
In the years following the invention of photography in 1839, practitioners in France gave shape to this intriguing new medium through experimental printing techniques and innovative compositions. The rich body of work they developed proved foundation...
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£45,00
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Seeing the Getty Center and Gardens
ISBN: PB: 9781606064917, Getty Publications, September 2016
64 pp., 15.3x15.5 cm, 124 colour illus.
Featuring stunning color photographs throughout, this edition takes readers on a visual tour through Los Angeles's iconic Getty Center, from the monumental modernist architecture of Richard Meier to the dynamic Central Garden designed by Robert Irwin...
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£7,99
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Beyond Boundaries Connecting Visual Cultures in the Provinces of Ancient Rome
ISBN: HB: 9781606064719, Getty Publications, August 2016
404 pp., 25x15 cm, colour and black&white illus.
The Roman Empire had a rich and multifaceted visual culture, which was often variegated due to the sprawling geography of its provinces. In this remarkable work of scholarship, a group of international scholars has come together to find alternative w...
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£55,00
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Hans Hofmann The Artists Materials
ISBN: PB: 9781606064870, Getty Publications, August 2016
140 pp., 25x15 cm, 40 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.
This gorgeously illustrated book examines the practice and materials of a prominent Abstract Expressionist. The career of the German-American painter and educator Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) describes the arc of artistic modernism from pre-World War I M...
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£30,00
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Marie-Antoinette
ISBN: HB: 9781606064832, Getty Publications, July 2016
216 pp., 25x15 cm, 225 colour illus.
An intimate glimpse into the public and private world of one of history's most famous – and infamous – queens Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793) continues to fascinate historians, writers, and filmmakers more than two centuries after her death. She became...
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