Cai Guo-Qiang
The Artist's Materials
ISBN: PB: 9781606069493,
Getty Publications,
July 2025
160 pp., 25,4x19,0 cm, 146 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.
160 pp., 25,4x19,0 cm, 146 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.
This groundbreaking book provides the first material study of the celebrated contemporary Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, known worldwide for his use of subversive materials, particularly gunpowder.
Cai Guo-Qiang (b. 1957) is among the most prominent...
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35.00 GBP
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Scores Project
Essays on Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950�1975
ISBN: PB: 9781606069332,
Getty Publications,
January 2025
196 pp., 19,1x11,4 cm, 76 colour illus., 75 black&white illus.
196 pp., 19,1x11,4 cm, 76 colour illus., 75 black&white illus.
A collection of essays examining experimental scores and source documents from the postwar avant-gardes, interpreted by experts on art, music, dance, and poetry.
Individuals working in and across the fields of visual art, music, poetry, theater, and...
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35.00 GBP
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Crossing Over
Art and Science at Caltech, 1920-2020
ISBN: PB: 9781606069424,
Getty Publications,
January 2025
352 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 250 colour illus.
352 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 250 colour illus.
Science is as much a visual practice as a textual or quantitative one. For centuries, scientists have used microscopes, telescopes, painting, illustration, printing, and photography to perceive nature and communicate what they see in it, often in col...
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55.00 GBP
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Sensing the Future
Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)
ISBN: PB: 9781606069233,
Getty Publications,
September 2024
128 pp., 254,0x19,1 cm, 47 colour and 17 black&white illus.
128 pp., 254,0x19,1 cm, 47 colour and 17 black&white illus.
In 1966, Billy Kluver and Fred Waldhauer, engineers at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey, teamed up with artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman to form a nonprofit organization, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.). E.A.T.'s deb...
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26.00 GBP
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Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Behold
ISBN: HB: 9781606068588,
Getty Publications,
October 2023
216 pp., 26,7x22,9 cm, 193 colour illus., 1 black&white illus.
216 pp., 26,7x22,9 cm, 193 colour illus., 1 black&white illus.
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons (b. 1959) makes powerful work that holds and beholds the stories of historically silenced peoples and urges societal change. Her journey as an artist, teacher, and activist has taken her from Cuba through the United States...
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40.00 GBP
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Alfredo Boulton
Looking at Venezuela, 1928-1978
ISBN: HB: 9781606068199,
Getty Publications,
July 2023
280 pp., 27,3x21,6 cm, 164 colour illus., 19 black&white illus.
280 pp., 27,3x21,6 cm, 164 colour illus., 19 black&white illus.
Alfredo Boulton (1908-1995) is considered one of the most important champions of modern art in Venezuela and a key intellectual of twentieth-century modernism. He was a pioneer of modern photography, an art critic, a researcher and historian of Venez...
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50.00 GBP
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Rediscovering Black Portraiture
ISBN: HB: 9781606068168,
Getty Publications,
April 2023
168 pp., 23,8x19,1 cm, 155 colour illus.
168 pp., 23,8x19,1 cm, 155 colour illus.
"Rediscovering Black Portraiture" collects more than fifty of Brathwaite's most intriguing re-creations. Introduced by Brathwaite and framed by contributions from experts in art history and visual culture, this fascinating book offers a nuanced look...
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35.00 GBP
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Way to Be
A Memoir
ISBN: PB: 9781606068212,
Getty Publications,
March 2023
288 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm, 18 colour illus., 63 black&white illus.
288 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm, 18 colour illus., 63 black&white illus.
For over fifty years, Barbara T. Smith has been at the forefront of artistic movements in California. Her work across many mediums explores concepts that strike at the core of human nature, including sexuality, physical and spiritual sustenance, tech...
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Artist's Materials
ISBN: PB: 9781606067642,
Getty Publications,
August 2022
160 pp., 25,4x19,0 cm
160 pp., 25,4x19,0 cm
Although Franz Kline was one of the seminal figures of the American Abstract Expressionist movement, he is less well known than contemporaries such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. This is partly because Kline, unlike most artists in his cir...
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35.00 GBP
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L.A. Graffiti Black Book
ISBN: HB: 9781606066980,
Getty Publications,
April 2021
176 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, colour illus.
176 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, colour illus.
Many graffiti artists carry sketchbooks, called black books, and they ask crew members and others whose work they admire to inscribe their books with lettering or drawings. A few years ago, the Getty Research Institute invited artists, including Angs...
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30.00 GBP
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