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Discovering Art Kids מאת John Harris This colorful book is filled with delightful images from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection. But not just any images: this volume contains images of kids, accompanied by a bit of read-aloud rhyme. Designed and written for the youngest of art appreciators, these charming books introduce children t...

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Secrets of Pompeii: Everyday Life in Ancient Rome מאת Emidio De Albentiis The remains of the ancient city of Pompeii, frozen in time following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, have provided invaluable evidence of daily life, not only in Rome's provinces, but in its larger urban centers as well. This book provides a fascinating look at how ancient Romans inter...

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Meyer Schapiro Abroad: Letters to Lillian and Travel Notebooks מאת Daniel Esterman The letters and travel notebook pages of Meyer Schapiro published here are filled with observations and drawings that illuminate the intellectual and emotional life of a young scholar committed to tracing the deep connections of art with the totality of culture. Schapiro's letters to his future w...

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Music in Art (A Guide to Imagery) מאת Alberto Ausoni This abundantly illustrated, full-color volume provides an overview of the topic of music, musical instruments, and musical performance throughout the centuries, as depicted in Western works of art ranging from ancient sculpture to Renaissance paintings to modern art. It serves as a handy guide for ...

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Jo Ann Callis: Woman Twirling מאת Judith Keller An artist who has long exploited the emotional power of color and texture, Jo Ann Callis is widely known for her inventive photographs involving tactile objects and images of people in mysterious, often unsettling narratives. Jo Ann Callis: Woman Twirling is the catalogue of an exhibition t...

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Fruits of Desire: A Seventeenth-Century Carved Ivory Cup מאת Eike D. Schmidt An extraordinary achievement in terms of its artistic rendering of the human body, its masterful carving of details, and its profound philosophical meaning, Balthasar Griessmann's large ivory goblet in the J. Paul Getty Museum celebrates wine and explores the benefits and risks of its consumption. C...

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Allan Kaprow--Art as Life מאת Alex Potts A self-described "un-artist," Allan Kaprow championed an artistic practice that moved art out of the museum and into the everyday. His works insistently blurred the boundaries between art and life, requiring active participation rather than passive spectatorship, interactive collaboration rather tha...

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Insects and Flowers: The Art of Maria Sibylla Merian מאת David Brafman The artist and scientist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was born in Frankfurt, Germany, into a middle-class family of publishers and artists. With her meticulous depictions of insect metamorphosis, she raised the standards of natural history illustration and helped give birth to the field of entom...

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Alexander the Great: Son of the Gods מאת Alan Fildes Famous for more than two millennia for the amazing deeds that he accomplished in his short life of thirty-two years, King Alexander III of Macedon is the most celebrated figure of classical antiquity. Alexander the Great: Son of the Gods presents, in a year-by-year chronicle, an intimate and fascina...

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Illuminated Manuscripts of Germany and Central Europe in the J. Paul Getty Museum מאת Thomas Kren This beautifully illustrated volume explores the richness of the J. Paul Getty Museum's holdings in German and Central European manuscripts from the ninth to the eighteenth century. This book showcases full-color reproductions of masterpieces from such works as Carolingian manuscripts of the nin...

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Astrology, Magic, and Alchemy in Art (Guide to Imagery) מאת Matilde Battistini From antiquity to the Enlightenment, astrology, magic, and alchemy were considered important tools to unravel the mysteries of nature and human destiny. As a result of the West's exposure during the Middle Ages to the astrological beliefs of Arab philosophers and the mystical writings of late antiqu...

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The Craftsman Revealed: Adrien De Vries, Scupltor in Bronze מאת Jane Bassett The sculptor Adriaen de Vries (1556-1626) spent much of his life working for the most discerning royal courts of the age, including that of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. A master of composition and technique, de Vries was relatively unknown until the groundbreaking 1999 exhibition Adri...

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Adélaïde Labille-Guiard: Artist in the Age of Revolution מאת Laura Auricchio Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749-1803), a remarkable portraitist, was among the small number of women ever granted membership in the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. Her work was sought out by such diverse figures as the aunts of Louis XVI and the future American president Thomas Jeffe...

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Saints in Art (Guide to Imagery Series) מאת Rosa Giorgi Christian saints have been the objects of reverence and fascination throughout the past two millennia. Their likenesses, heroic acts, prayerful lives, and stories of martyrdom have been portrayed frequently in art of diverse media. Unfamiliar with the saints and their images and symbols, viewers of ...

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Discovering Art Cats מאת John Harris This colorful book is filled with delightful images from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection. But not just any images: this volume contains images of cats, accompanied by a bit of read-aloud rhyme. Designed and written for the youngest of art appreciators, these charming books introduce children t...

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Gardens in Art (Guide to Imagery Series) מאת Lucia Impelluso Gardens in Art analyzes the constituent elements of gardens, both real and imagined, and uncovers their often-hidden symbolic meanings. Paintings provide a continuous visual record of the myriad, ephemeral forms of gardens, and in the nearly four hundred works presented here, drawn from imp...

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A Is for Artist: A Getty Museum Alphabet מאת John Harris In this delightful alphabet book, cleverly illustrated with paintings from the collection of the Getty Museum, A is for an artist by Jan Steen, B is for a bumblebee by Ambrosius Bosschaert, and C is for a candle by Jean-Francois de Troy. Details from twenty-six different paintings by artists includi...

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Vesuvius, A.D. 79: The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum מאת Ernesto De Carolis 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 falling with the ash formed a kind of cement that en...

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European Art of the Eighteenth Century (Art Through the Centuries) מאת Daniela Tarabra This latest volume in the Art Through the Centuries series presents the most important artists and artistic concepts of the eighteenth century. While the Baroque style, with its emphasis on emotionalism and naturalistic forms, had dominated the seventeenth century, a new sensibility, the Rococo, eme...

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Angels and Demons in Art (Guide to Imagery Series) מאת Rosa Giorgi This sumptuously illustrated volume analyzes artists' representations of angels and demons and heaven and hell from the Judeo-Christian tradition and describes how these artistic portrayals evolved over time. As with other books in the Guide to Imagery series, the goal of this volume is to help con...

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Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference מאת Holm Bevers Rembrandt was the most famous painter of the Dutch Golden Age, and the opportunity to work in his studio attracted young artists for nearly four decades, until the artist's death in 1669. This catalogue explores the workings of Rembrandt's studio in the form of drawings made by the master himself an...

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Irises: Vincent Van Gogh in the Garden מאת Jennifer Helvey How well he has understood the exquisite nature of flowers! --Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917), French art critic and the first owner of Irises Vincent van Gogh painted Irises in the last year of his life, in the garden of the asylum at Saint-Rémy, where he was recuperating fr...

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The Prayer Book of Charles the Bold: A Study of a Flemish Masterpiece from the Burgundian Court (Getty Distribution) מאת Antione De Schryver In January of 1469, the accounts of Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy record a payment to the scribe Nicolas Spierinc for having written "some prayers for my lord." Seven months later, the same account notes a payment to the illuminator Lievin van Lathem for twenty-five miniatures plus borders and d...

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Faces of Power and Piety (The Medieval Imagination) מאת Erik Inglis Faces of Power and Piety is the second in the Medieval Imagination series of small, affordable books that draw on manuscript illuminations in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Library. Each volume focuses on a particular theme to provide an accessible and delightfu...

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History of the Church in Art (Guide to Imagery) מאת Rosa Giorgi In this richly illustrated volume Rosa Giorgi argues that because much of Western art depicts key events, leaders, and practices in the history of the Christian Church, knowledge of that history is critical to an appreciation of many of our great masterpieces. Giorgi begins by analyzing artistic r...

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The Splendor of Roman Wall Painting מאת Umberto Pappalardo Visitors to the former residences of wealthy ancient Romans cannot help but be astonished by their grand architecture and enchanting wall paintings, still vibrant with cinnabar reds, golden yellows, and deep greens. The beauty and intricacy of these ancient frescoes are showcased in the sumptuous vo...

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Discovering Art Dogs מאת John Harris This colorful book is filled with delightful images from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection. But not just any images: this volume contains images of dogs, accompanied by a bit of read-aloud rhyme. Designed and written for the youngest of art appreciators, these charming books introduce children t...

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Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England מאת Bruce Redford With elegance and wit, Bruce Redford re-creates the vibrant culture of connoisseurship in Enlightenment England by investigating the multifaceted activities and achievements of the Society of Dilettanti. He dissects the British connoisseurs whose expeditions, collections, and publications laid the g...

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Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes מאת Edouard Kopp This lovely book highlights key moments of the French landscape tradition from its emergence in the 1600s to its affirmation in the 1800s. The selected drawings from the Getty collection show a variety of techniques, functions, and styles, and include works by François Boucher, Jacques-Louis David,...

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My Travels With Clara מאת Mary Tavener Holmes A life-size portrait of the famous rhinoceros named Clara is the massive centerpiece of the J. Paul Getty Museum's exhibition Oudry's Painted Menagerie. In her honor, the Getty has produced My Travels with Clara, a book for children that tells the true story of this five-thousand-p...

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Looking at Greek and Roman Sculpture in Stone: A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques (Looking At...) מאת Janet Burnett Grossman Tool marks and "joins", "Cycladic" and "Daedalic styles", and "kouroi" and "kanephoroi" are among the many terms pertaining to the study of classical stone sculpture that are succinctly described in this latest addition to the popular Looking At series. Presented in glossary format, this superbly i...

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Toward an Architecture (Texts & Documents) מאת Le Corbusier Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical styles and instead open their eyes to the ...

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Ashen Sky: The Letters of Pliny The Younger on the Eruption of Vesuvius מאת Pliny Barry Moser's extraordinarily detailed and evocative relief engravings decorate this translation of Pliny the Younger's two famous letters to Tacitus about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and the death of his uncle, Pliny the Elder. Printed in black and white, the engravings are works of a...

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Looking at Paintings: A Guide to Technical Terms (Looking at Series) מאת Tiarna Doherty What is tempera? What is foreshortening? What is fresco? These terms--and more than 100 others--are explained and illustrated in Looking at Paintings.First published in 1992, Looking at Paintings--now thoroughly revised and expanded--presents concise and readable explanations of th...

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Saints of California: A Guide to Places and Their Patrons מאת Edward Mornin A striking feature of California is the frequency with which its natural landmarks and cities are named for Christian saints. Many place names are traceable to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Spanish navigators, soldiers, and friars who christened the geographical sites they crossed and the ...

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Key to Rome מאת Frederick Vreeland Unlocking the door to the hidden treasures of the imperial capital's multifaceted cultural history, Key to Rome is a tour book unlike any other. Author Frederick Vreeland, former U.S. senior diplomat in Rome, and his artist wife, Vanessa, guide visitors and armchair travelers through layers of time-...

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Plant Biology for Cultural Heritage: Biodeterioration and Conservation מאת Giulia Caneva This publication brings together wide-ranging scientific contributions from the field of plant biology relating to the conservation of cultural heritage and offers fundamental knowledge as well as specific suggestions for practical applications. Plant Biology for Cultural Heritage present...

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A Pocket Dictionary of Ancient Greek Heroes and Heroines מאת Richard Woff The audacious characters of Greek mythology have remained popular throughout the ages. This colorful and handy visual reference introduces to a new generation these ancient heroes and heroines, who used their cunning, beauty, and courage to overcome an array of obstacles and monsters. Young readers ...

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California Video: Artists and Histories מאת Glenn Phillips Published to accompany a landmark exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from March 15 through June 18, 2008, California Video presents the first comprehensive survey of the history of video art in California. Since the late 1960s, California artists have been at the forefront of an...

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Rembrandt Drawings מאת Seymour Slive Although the extensive literature on Rembrandt could fill a small library, there has been no up-to-date survey of his extraordinary achievement as a draftsman. Renowned Rembrandt scholar Seymour Slive fills this void with his scrutiny of some 150 drawings culled from a corpus of about eight hundred ...

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The Classical Cookbook מאת Andrew Dalby The daily life of classical Greece and Rome, although separated from us by 2000 years, can be recreated in almost photographic detail. The Classical Cookbook is the first book of its kind, exploring the daily culture of the Mediterranean through the center of its social life--food and drink. Combini...

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Ephemeral Bodies: Wax Sculpture and the Human Figure (Getty) מאת Whitney Davis The material history of wax is a history of disappearance--wax melts, liquefies, evaporates, and undergoes innumerable mutations. Wax is tactile, ambiguous, and mesmerizing, confounding viewers and scholars alike. It can approximate flesh with astonishing realism and has been used to create...

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The California Missions: History, Art and Preservation (Conservation and Cultural Heritage Series) מאת Edna E. Kimbro The story of the Spanish missions is one of the epics in the history of California. Founded in the late eighteenth century by Franciscan missionaries, designed by artisans from Mexico and Europe, and built and decorated largely by Native Americans, the missions were complex institutions of colonial ...

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Images in the Margins (The Medieval Imagination) מאת Margot McIlwain Nishimura Images in the Margins is the third in the popular Medieval Imagination series of small, affordable books drawing on manuscript illumination in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Library. Each volume focuses on a particular theme and provides an accessible, delightfu...

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Nature Illuminated: Flora and Fauna from the Court of Emperor Rudolf II מאת Lee Hendrix The court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II produced nothing more amazing than the Mira calligraphiae monumenta, a brilliant demonstration of two arts-calligraphy and miniature painting. The project began when Rudolf's predecessor, Ferdinand I, commissioned master calligrapher Georg Bocskay to create ...

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Seeing the Getty Center: Collections, Building, and Gardens Three-Volume Boxed Set מאת David Bomford et al The three volumes in this handsome boxed set provide a visual tour of the treasures at the Getty Center, from the masterpieces found in the galleries to the monumental architecture to the breathtaking gardens. In the pages of Seeing the Getty Collections at the Getty Center, dazzling detail...

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Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts מאת Marina Droth While some artworks are more readily labeled as "decorative arts" and others as "sculpture," such objects can exchange and share features. Decorative objects intended for functional or ceremonial use can incorporate sculptural forms or assert a sculptural presence and, conversely, sculpture can perf...

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Song of the Swallows מאת Leo Politi Song of the Swallows, which won the Caldecott Medal when it was first published in 1948, was written and illustrated by Leo Politi, one of Los Angeles' most beloved artists. It tells the famous story of the yearly return of the swallows to the Mission San Juan Capistrano through the eyes o...

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Symbols and Allegories in Art (Guide to Imagery Series) מאת Matilde Battistini From antiquity, when the gods and goddesses were commonly featured in works of art, through to the twentieth century, when Surrealists drew on archetypes from the unconscious, artists have embedded symbols in their works. As with previous volumes in the Guide to Imagery series, the goal of this book...

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Herculaneum: Italy's Buried Treasure מאת Joseph Jay Deiss A vivid portrayal of life in Pompeii's sister city, this book includes a detailed description of the ancient Villa dei Papiri, on which the present Getty Museum in Malibu is modeled....

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Captured Emotions: Baroque Painting in Bologna 1575-1725 (Getty Distribution) מאת Andreas Henning This catalogue, which accompanies a collaborative exhibition between the Dresden State Museums and the J. Paul Getty Museum that brings together Bolognese Baroque paintings from both Dresden and Southern California public and private collections, provides an engaging survey of one of the most import...

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Pedro: The Angel of Olvera Street מאת Politi This Caldecott Honor book from beloved children's book author Leo Politi, originally published in 1946, is set on Olvera Street, the site of Los Angeles' original Latino settlement, which is still preserved very much as it once was--a busy and colorful me'lange of small artisan shops, restaurants, a...

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Carleton Watkins in Yosemite מאת Weston Naef All the grandeur of the American West in the mid-nineteenth century is reflected in this selection of "mammoth," or large-format, photographs made by Carleton Watkins in or around Yosemite Valley, California. This fully illustrated book, produced to accompany the exhibition "Dialogue among Giants" a...

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The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases מאת Beth Cohen "The catalogue ... is truly excellent and makes an important contribution to the study of Greek Art." --Bryn Mawr Classical Review"An overwhelming volume. The subject matter ... is described in great detail in nine chapters. Essential."--ChoiceThis catalogue documents a major exhi...

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Emmet מאת Leo Politi This delightful picture book from beloved children's book author Leo Politi, originally published in 1971, tells the story of Emmet, one of the many stray dogs taken in by old Mr. Winkel--among them, Poupee, Oscar, and Puff. Emmet was always the troublemaker of the lot, escaping from Mr. Winkel's y...

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Old Testament Figures in Art (Guide to Imagery) מאת Chiara de Capoa Throughout the Middle Ages, sacred Christian art had two objectives: to express veneration for God and to provide illustrative lessons on the Christian faith to a largely illiterate population. Continuing in the spirit of the other books in this series, Old Testament Figures in Art compiles entries ...

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Food and Feasting in Art (Guide to Imagery) מאת Sylvia Malaguzzi The book describes the significance of food and feasts as told in Scripture and in the lives of the saints; food and dining in Greek and Roman mythology and in later literature and history; and how artists through the ages have created allegories of gluttony and odes to the sense of taste, using, fo...

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Juanita מאת Leo Politi Originally published in 1948 and the recipient of a Caldecott Honor, Juanita captures the atmosphere of Olvera Street, the historic Latino community in downtown Los Angeles. Juanita's parents own a small shop, or puesto, which they have named after her, and one very much like thos...

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The Digital Print: Identification and Preservation מאת Martin C. Jürgens This invaluable resource demystifies the complex, rapidly changing, and sometimes confusing world of digital print technologies. It describes the major digital printing processes used by photographers and artists over the past forty years, explaining and illustrating materials and their deterioratio...

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Art of the Defeat, France 1940-1944 מאת Laurence Bertrand Dorleac Art of the Defeat provides an unflinching look at the art scene in Occupied France. Beginning with Adolf Hitler's staging of the armistice at Rethondes, the book offers a survey of Nazi and Vichy artistic policies, key events and organizations, and individual acts of collaboration and resis...

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Seeing the Collections at the Getty Center: The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center מאת David Bomford Featuring art from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, this small book is sure to provoke the surprise and delight of discovering similarities among works in different media and from different periods. Illustrated with details of artworks from the collection, one pairing...

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Paul Outerbridge: Command Performance מאת Paul Martineau Paul Outerbridge Jr. (American, 1896-1958) burst onto the photographic art scene in the early 1920s with images that were visually fresh, technically adept, and decidedly Modernist. He also applied his talent for composition to the commercial world, introducing an artist's sensibility to advertiseme...

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Gospel Figures in Art (Guide to Imagery Series) מאת Stefano Zuffi In viewing the great works of sacred Western art, many people find difficulty in understanding the stories and identifying the figures portrayed in them. This informative guide decodes these often-mysterious scenes and reveals a vibrant world of images from the Christian tradition for museum visito...

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Nature and Its Symbols (Guide to Imagery Series) מאת Lucia Impelluso Nature and Its Symbols is the fifth volume in the series A Guide to Imagery, reference guides whose goal is to explain the symbols used in art. This volume includes chapters on plants, flowers, fruits, and animals of the earth, air, and water, as well as fantastical creatures such as centaurs, griff...

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Rembrandt in Southern California מאת Anne T. Woollett Southern California is home to the third-largest assemblage of Rembrandt paintings in the United States, with notable strength in works from the artist's dynamic early career in Leiden and Amsterdam. This lovely volume presents the fourteen stunning Rembrandt paintings held in five Southern Californ...

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Sculpture and Enlightenment מאת Erika Naginski This pioneering book chronicles the transformation of public art in eighteenth-century France. As royal and ecclesiastical authority waned under the rule of Louis XV, there emerged nascent democratic institutions, a new metaphysics, and a radical political consciousness--a paradigm shift that profou...

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Rembrandt on Paper מאת Hilary Williams Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), one of the greatest artists in European history, was at the forefront of the Dutch Golden Age. His talent was multifaceted: not only a gifted portrait and landscape painter, he was also an inspired draftsman and printmaker. This gorgeously illustrated book pays tribut...

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Patio and Pavilion: The Place of Sculpture in Modern Architecture (Getty) מאת Penelope Curtis This book examines the relationship between modern sculpture and architecture in the mid-twentieth century, an interplay that has laid the ground for the semi-sculptural or semi-architectural works by architects such as Frank Gehry and artists such as Dan Graham. The first half of the book loo...

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Photographs of the Past: Process and Preservation מאת Bertand Lavédrine In recent years, interest in old photographs has grown significantly among a broad public, from collectors, conservators, and archivists to amateurs seeking to preserve precious family albums. Although the medium of photography is barely 150 years old, its relatively brief history has witnessed the ...

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As I See It: The Autobiography of J. Paul Getty מאת J. Paul Getty While writing his autobiography, Jean Paul Getty - then perhaps the world's richest man - hoped it would be the final verdict on himself, on his many friends and associates, and on his times. Regrettably, it proved to be so: Getty died in 1976 as "As I See It" was going to press. Now reissued with a...