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Knight for the Ages Jacques de Lalaing and the Art of Chivalry
ISBN: HB: 9781606065754, Getty Publications, November 2018
192 pp., 29.2x20.8 cm, 94 colour illus.
The Livre des faits de Jacques de Lalaing (Book of the Deeds of Jacques de Lalaing), a famous Flemish illuminated manuscript, relays the audacious life of Jacques de Lalaing (1421-1453), a story that reads more like a fast-paced adventure novel. Prod...
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£45,00
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Renaissance Nude
ISBN: HB: 9781606065846, Getty Publications, November 2018
432 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, illus.
Reflecting an era when Europe looked to both the classical past and a global future, this volume explores the emergence and acceptance of the nude as an artistic subject. It engages with the numerous and complex connotations of the human body in more...
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£50,00
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Understanding Illuminated Manscripts A Guide to Technical Terms (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9781606065785, Getty Publications, October 2018
128 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 110 colour illus.
What is a historiated initial? What are canon tables? What is a drollery? This revised edition of Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms offers definitions of the key elements of illuminated manuscripts, demystifying the te...
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£14,95
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Fashion in the Middle Ages
ISBN: PB: 9781606065853, Getty Publications, September 2018
112 pp., 22.9x12.7 cm, 88 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.
From the costly velvets and furs worn by kings to the undyed wools and rough linens of the peasantry, the clothing worn by the various classes in the Middle Ages played an integral role in medieval society. In addition to providing clues to status, p...
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£13,99
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Art of Curating Paul J. Sachs and the Museum Course at Harvard
ISBN: HB: 9781606065693, Getty Publications, August 2018
288 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 123 black&white illus., 1 map
From 1921 until 1948, Paul J. Sachs (1878-1965) offered a yearlong program in art museum training, "Museum Work and Museum Problems", through Harvard University's Fine Arts Department. Known simply as the Museum Course, the program was responsible fo...
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£40,00
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Cleo and Cornelius
ISBN: HB: 9781947440036, Getty Publications, August 2018
32 pp., 25.8x23.5 cm, 23 colour illus.
Courageous Cleo and couch potato Cornelius live in ancient Egypt, where cats lie around all day, being pampered like gods and goddesses. One day Cornelius accidentally boards a boat headed to the faraway city of Rome, and Cleo sets off on a quest to...
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£12,99
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Sistine Chapel Paradise in Rome
ISBN: PB: 9781606065532, Getty Publications, August 2018
184 pp., 19.1x14 cm, 31 colour illus., 18 black&white illus., 8 line drawings
The art of the Sistine Chapel, decorated by artists who competed with one another and commissioned by popes who were equally competitive, is a complex fabric of thematic, chronological, and artistic references. Four main campaigns were undertaken to...
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£18,99
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Artists and Their Books, Books and Their Artists
ISBN: HB: 9781606065730, Getty Publications, July 2018
200 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 184 colour illus.
Ever innovative and predictably diverse in their physical formats, artists' books occupy a creative space between the familiar four-cornered object and challenging works of art that effectively question every preconception of what a book can be. Many...
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£40,00
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Icons of Style A Century of Fashion Photography
ISBN: HB: 9781606065587, Getty Publications, July 2018
368 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 176 colour illus., 147 duotone illus.
In 1911 the French couturier Paul Poiret challenged Edward Steichen to create the first artistic, rather than merely documentary, fashion photographs, a moment that is now considered to be a turning point in the history of fashion photography. As fas...
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£50,00
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Plato in L.A. Contemporary Artists' Visions
ISBN: PB: 9781606065747, Getty Publications, June 2018
112 pp., 22.9x19.1 cm, 20 colour illus.
No thinker in the West has had a wider and more sustained influence than the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. From philosophy to drama, religion to politics, it is difficult to find a current cultural or social phenomenon that is not in some aspect i...
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£18,99
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