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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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£50,00
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Herculaneum and the House of the Bicentenary History and Heritage
ISBN: PB: 9781606066287, Getty Publications, February 2020
160 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
This volume vividly recounts, for general readers, the Roman town of Herculaneum, destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE and uniquely preserved for nearly two thousand years. Initial chapters offer an engaging historical overview of the...
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£25,00
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Historic Cities Issues in Urban Conservation
ISBN: PB: 9781606065938, Getty Publications, July 2019
632 pp., 25x15 cm, colour illus.
This book, the eighth in the Getty Conservation Institute's Readings in Conservation series, fills a significant gap in the published literature on urban conservation. This topic is distinct from both heritage conservation and urban planning, and des...
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£60,00
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Harald Szeemann Museum of Obsessions
ISBN: HB: 9781606065594, Getty Publications, April 2018
432 pp., 30.9x24.7 cm, 240 colour illus., 122 black&white illus.
Harald Szeemann is associated with some of the most important artistic developments of the postwar era. A passionate advocate of avant-garde movements like conceptualism and post minimalism, he collaborated with artists such as Joseph Beuys, Bruce Na...
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£55,00
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Harald Szeemann Selected Writings
ISBN: PB: 9781606065549, Getty Publications, April 2018
424 pp., 23.3x17.2 cm, 32 colour illus., 69 black&white illus.
Born in Bern, Switzerland in 1933, Harald Szeemann was a crucial force in identifying, exhibiting, and writing about the important new movements in postwar contemporary art. This collection of seventy-four texts from the curator's vast body of writte...
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£40,00
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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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Household Gods Private Devotion in Ancient Greece and Rome
ISBN: HB: 9781606064566, Getty Publications, February 2016
160 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Daily religious devotion in the Greek and Roman worlds centered on the family and the home. Besides official worship in rural sacred areas and at temples in towns, the ancients kept household shrines with statuettes of different deities that could ha...
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£18,99
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Historical Perspectives in the Conservation of Works of Art on Paper
ISBN: PB: 9781606064320, Getty Publications, July 2015
608 pp., 25x15 cm
This book is the seventh in the "Readings in Conservation" series, which gathers and publishes texts that have been influential in the development of thinking about the conservation of cultural heritage. The present volume provides a selection of mor...
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£55,00
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Historical Perspectives on Preventative Conservation
ISBN: PB: 9781606061428, Getty Publications, May 2013
456 pp., 25.4x17.9 cm, 20 colour illus.
This title gathers together the most important texts on this critical topic, from antiquity to today. The sixth volume in the Getty's Readings in Conservation series, which gathers more than 65 texts that have been influential in the development of t...
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£55,00
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Herb Ritts L.A. Style
ISBN: HB: 9781606061008, Getty Publications, January 2012
224 pp., 31x25.2 cm, 43 colour illus., 155 black&white illus.
This is a stunning collection of photographs – many never before published – celebrating the remarkable talent of Herb Ritts. "Herb Ritts" traces the life and career of the iconic photographer through a compelling selection of both renowned and previ...
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