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Conservation of Medieval Polychrome Wood Sculpture History, Theory, Practice
ISBN: PB: 9781606066553, Getty Publications, August 2020
296 pp., 26x21.6 cm, 168 colour illus., 63 black&white illus.
Medieval polychrome wood sculptures are highly complex objects, bearers of histories that begin with their original carving and adornment and continue through long centuries of repainting, deterioration, restoration, and conservation. Abundantly illu...
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Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Fascicule 10 Athenian Red, Figured Column and Volute Kraters
ISBN: HB: 9781606066010, Getty Publications, November 2019
162 pp., 25x15 cm
Cataloging some hundred thousand examples of ancient Greek painted pottery held in collections around the world, the authoritative "Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum" (Corpus of Ancient Vases) is the oldest research project of the Union Academique Internatio...
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Canons and Values Ancient to Modern
ISBN: PB: 9781606065976, Getty Publications, August 2019
344 pp., 25x15 cm, colour illus.
A century ago, all art was evaluated through the lens of European classicism and its tradition. This volume explores and questions the foundations of the European canon, offers a critical rethinking of ancient and classical art and interrogates the c...
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Central Collecting Point in Munich A New Beginning for the Restitution and Protection of Art
ISBN: HB: 9781606065822, Getty Publications, January 2019
304 pp., 24.7x16.8 cm, 238 black&white illus.
At the end of World War II, the US Office of Military Government for Germany and Bavaria, through its Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives division, was responsible for the repatriation of most of the tens of thousands of artworks looted by the Nazis i...
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Concrete Case Studies in Conservation Practice
ISBN: PB: 9781606065761, Getty Publications, January 2019
236 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 176 colour illus., 2 line drawings
This timely volume brings together fourteen case studies that address the challenges of conserving the twentieth century's most ubiquitous building material-concrete. Following a meeting of international heritage conservation professionals in 2013, t...
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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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Conservation and Presentation of Mosaics: At What Cost? Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the INTL Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics
ISBN: HB: 9781606065334, Getty Publications, September 2017
422 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
In recent years, funding for the conservation of cultural heritage has become increasingly difficult to obtain, and this trend shows no sign of changing significantly in the foreseeable future. The twelfth triennial meeting of the International Commi...
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Color Science and the Visual Arts A Guide for Conservations, Curators, and the Curious
ISBN: PB: 9781606064818, Getty Publications, July 2016
208 pp., 25x15 cm, 250 colour illus.
"A curator, a paintings conservator, a photographer, and a conservation scientist walk into a bar". What happens next? In lively and accessible prose, color science expert Roy S. Berns helps the reader understand complex color-technology concepts and...
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Cave Temples of Dunhuang Buddhist Art on the Silk Road
ISBN: HB: 9781606064894, Getty Publications, June 2016
302 pp., 25x15 cm, 25 black&white illus., 190 colour illus.
The Mogao grottoes in northwestern China, located near the town of Dunhuang on the fabled Silk Road, constitute one of the world's most significant sites of Buddhist art. In some five hundred caves carved into rock cliffs at the edge of the Gobi dese...
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Cultural Memories in the Roman Empire
ISBN: HB: 9781606064627, Getty Publications, January 2016
376 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Memory studies one of the most vibrant research fields of the present day brings together such diverse disciplines as art and archaeology, history, religion, literature, sociology, media studies, and neuroscience. In scholarship on ancient Rome, stud...
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