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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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£45,00
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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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Vesuvius A.D. 79 The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum
ISBN: HB: 9780892367191, Getty Publications, March 2006
124 pp., 24x16.8 cm, 120 colour illus.
Mount Vesuvius, in what is now southern Italy, erupted in AD 79, spewing volcanic rock, clouds of fine ash, and deadly gases over surrounding towns and farms, burying every trace of their existence. In nearby Pompeii, nearly 2000 people died. Rain fa...
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Victory of New Building Style
ISBN: PB: 9780892365630, Getty Publications, March 2006
176 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 94 black&white illus.
The architect and theorist Walter Behrendt was involved with public housing and urban development as a designer and administrator for the German government after World War I. From 1925 to 1926 he edited the journal Die Form for the German Werkbund an...
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Villa del Papiri at Herculaneum Life and Afterlife of a Sculpture Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780892367221, Getty Publications, March 2006
390 pp., 29.8x22.2 cm, 239 illus., 261 colour illus.
The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum buried during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79, then rediscovered in 1750 contained a large collection of bronze and marble statuary and busts. Before they were published or exhibited, the sculptures were re...
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Vincennes and Sevres Porcelain Catalogue of the Collections
ISBN: HB: 9780892361731, Getty Publications, March 2006
206 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 53 colour illus., 136 black&white illus.
This book is the first completely detailed and descriptive companion to the museum's holdings of Vincennes and Sevres porcelain. The porcelain is catalogued in chronological order by factory. Each entry provides a complete bibliography and provenance...
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