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William Blake Visionary
ISBN: HB: 9781606066423, Getty Publications, August 2020
160 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 135 colour illus., 1 black&white illus.
William Blake (1757-1827) is a universal artist – an inspiration to musicians, poets, performers, and visual artists worldwide. By combining his poetry and images on the page through radical printing techniques, Blake created some of the most strikin...
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£27,00
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When Galleries Shake Earthquake Damage Mitigation for Museum Collections
ISBN: PB: 9781606065228, Getty Publications, August 2017
280 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 131 colour illus., 37 black&white illus., 33 line drawings
Earthquakes pose myriad dangers to heritage collections worldwide. This book provides an accessible introduction to these dangers and to the methodologies developed at the Getty and other museums internationally for mitigating seismic vulnerability....
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Woven Gold Tapestries of Louis XIV
ISBN: HB: 9781606064610, Getty Publications, December 2015
136 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Meticulously woven by hand with wool, silk, and gilt-metal thread, the tapestry collection of the Sun King, Louis XIV of France, represents the highest achievements of the art form. Intended to enhance the king'sreputation by visualizing his manifest...
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£40,00
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World Antiquarianism Comparative Perspectives
ISBN: PB: 9781606061480, Getty Publications, December 2013
464 pp., 25.5x17.9 cm, 23 colour illus., 81 black&white illus.
This book explores the concept of antiquarianism and recasts its role for a new generation. The term antiquarianism refers to engagement with the material heritage of the past – an engagement that preceded the modern academic discipline of archaeolog...
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£45,00
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Window in Photographs
ISBN: HB: 9781606061442, Getty Publications, September 2013
112 pp., 22.5x18.8 cm, 84 colour illus., 4 black&white photos
This title shows how the window has provided photography with one of its richest and most enduring themes. Photographers have been irresistibly drawn to the window as a powerful source of inspiration throughout the history of the medium. As one of th...
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£18,99
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Walker Evans Cuba
ISBN: PB: 9781606060643, ISBN: HB: 9781606060018, Getty Publications, May 2011
96 pp., 28.1x26.4 cm, 73 duotone photos
This is a stunning exploration of quintessential American photographer Walker Evans' images of Cuba in the 1930s. In 1933, Walker Evans travelled to Cuba to take photographs for "The Crime of Cuba", a book by American journalist Carleton Beals whose...
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Willem de Kooning The Artist's Materials
ISBN: PB: 9781606060216, Getty Publications, November 2010
112 pp., 25.6x18.9 cm, 34 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.
This is the first systematic and truly methodical study of de Kooning's idiosyncratic working methods and use of materials. This in-depth study of the paintings of Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), Dutch-born American abstract expressionist painter, fro...
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£30,00
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Where's the Bear? A Look and Find Book
ISBN: HB: 9780892363780, Getty Publications, March 2006
60 pp., 20.3x20.3 cm, 25 colour illus.
Jan Brueghel's elaborate 1613 painting entitled "The Entry of the Animals into Noah's Ark" is cleverly transformed into this look-and-find book for children. Twenty-five detailed illustrations prompt children to identify different kinds of animals wh...
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£12,99
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