Clyfford Still
The Artists Materials
ISBN: PB: 9781606066959,
Getty Publications,
August 2021
168 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm
168 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm
Among the most radical of the great American Abstract Expressionist painters, Clyfford Still has also long been among the least studied. Still severed ties with the commercial art world in the early 1950s, and his estate at the time of his death in 1...
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35.00 GBP
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Managing Energy Use in Modern Buildings
Case Studies in Conservation Practice
ISBN: PB: 9781606066973,
Getty Publications,
August 2021
192 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, colour illus.
192 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, colour illus.
This collection of ten case studies addresses the unique challenges surrounding the improvement of energy consumption and thermal comfort in modern buildings built between 1931 and 1969 and offers valuable lessons for other structures facing similar...
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50.00 GBP
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Renaissance Restored
ISBN: PB: 9781606066966,
Getty Publications,
July 2021
208 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm
208 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm
This handsomely illustrated volume traces the intersections of art history and paintings restoration in nineteenth-century Europe. Repairing works of art and writing about them-the practices that became art conservation and art history-share a common...
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55.00 GBP
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Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History
Volume 5: Modern and Contemporary Art
ISBN: PB: 9780300261035,
Yale University Press,
June 2021
220 pp., 27,9x20,3 cm, 180 colour and black&white illus.
220 pp., 27,9x20,3 cm, 180 colour and black&white illus.
Volume 5 of the National Gallery of Art's biennial conservation research journal Facture explores issues associated with the conservation and technical analysis of modern and contemporary art. Focusing on works in a variety of media by celebrated art...
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25.00 GBP
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National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Volume 41
ISBN: PB: 9781857096705,
Yale University Press,
National Gallery London,
May 2021
104 pp., 29,9x21,0 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
104 pp., 29,9x21,0 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
The latest in this annual bulletin based on research carried out at the National Gallery, London, draws on the combined expertise of scientists, conservators, and curators, bringing together a wealth of information about artists' materials, practices...
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40.00 GBP
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Values in Heritage Management
Emerging Approaches and Research
ISBN: PB: 9781606066188,
Getty Publications,
December 2020
278 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, illus.
278 pp., 25,0x15,0 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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50.00 GBP
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Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt
Emerging Research from the APPEAR Project
ISBN: PB: 9781606066546,
Getty Publications,
September 2020
228 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 160 colour illus. illus; 26 diagrams, tables
228 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 160 colour illus. illus; 26 diagrams, tables
Once interred with mummified remains, nearly a thousand funerary portraits from Roman Egypt survive today in museums around the world, bringing viewers face-to-face with people who lived two thousand years ago. Until recently, few of these paintings...
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55.00 GBP
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Conservation of Medieval Polychrome Wood Sculpture
History, Theory, Practice
ISBN: PB: 9781606066553,
Getty Publications,
August 2020
296 pp., 26,0x21,6 cm, 168 colour illus., 63 black&white illus.
296 pp., 26,0x21,6 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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60.00 GBP
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Museum Lighting
A Guide for Conservators and Curators
ISBN: PB: 9781606066379,
Getty Publications,
February 2020
328 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, illus.
328 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, illus.
Author David Saunders, former keeper of conservation and scientific research at the British Museum, explores how to balance the conflicting goals of visibility and preservation under a variety of conditions. Beginning with the science of how light, c...
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60.00 GBP
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On Canvas
Preserving the Structure of Paintings
ISBN: PB: 9781606066263,
Getty Publications,
February 2020
256 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, illus.
256 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, illus.
Throughout its long history in Western art, canvas has played an influential role in the creative process. From the Renaissance development of oil painting on canvas to the present day-through Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism, and other art hist...
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45.00 GBP
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