Ancient Glass in the J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: PB: 9781606069196,
Getty Publications,
February 2025
436 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 650 colour illus.
436 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 650 colour illus.
The J. Paul Getty Museum's collection of ancient glass – astonishingly delicate, richly hued, and fancifully shaped-is among the most celebrated in the United States. With objects ranging from the Bronze Age to the medieval period (1500 BCE - 1000 CE...
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85.00 GBP
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Ancient Thrace and the Classical World
Treasures from Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece
ISBN: HB: 9781606069400,
Getty Publications,
November 2024
408 pp., 29,2x24,1 cm, 310 colour illus.
408 pp., 29,2x24,1 cm, 310 colour illus.
The Thracians – a collection of tribal peoples who inhabited territories north of ancient Greece, an area that comprises present-day Bulgaria, much of Romania, and parts of Greece and Turkey-were renowned for their skill as warriors and horsemen, as...
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55.00 GBP
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Naseby Cup
Coins and Medals of the English Civil War
ISBN: PB: 9780300275865,
Yale University Press,
June 2024
144 pp., 24,8x21,0 cm, 185 colour illus.
144 pp., 24,8x21,0 cm, 185 colour illus.
A detailed presentation of the iconic Naseby Cup that illuminates the Victorian vessel's extraordinary numismatic importance and contextualizes the circumstances surrounding its creation.
One of the most exceptional numismatic objects in the world,...
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20.00 GBP
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Julian Stair
Memory, Material, Ceramics
ISBN: HB: 9780300278071,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
318 pp., 28,0x22,5 cm, 250 colour illus.
318 pp., 28,0x22,5 cm, 250 colour illus.
The first comprehensive account of the pioneering ceramic work of Julian Stair.
Julian Stair (b. 1955) is one of the UK's leading ceramic artists, with a prolific career spanning five decades. Exploring an extensive range of work in different mater...
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40.00 GBP
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Novels, Needleworks, and Empire
Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
ISBN: HB: 9780300270785,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
312 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 38 black&white illus.
312 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 38 black&white illus.
The first sustained study of the vibrant links between domestic craft and British colonialism.
In the eighteenth century, women's contributions to empire took fewer official forms than those collected in state archives. Their traces were recorded i...
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50.00 GBP
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Picture Worlds
Storytelling on Greek, Moche, and Maya Pottery
ISBN: PB: 9781606069059,
Getty Publications,
April 2024
208 pp., 25,4x22,9 cm, 113 colour illus.
208 pp., 25,4x22,9 cm, 113 colour illus.
This abundantly illustrated volume is the first to explore the painted pottery of the ancient Greek, Moche, and Maya cultures side by side.
Satyrs and sphinxes, violent legumes, and a dancing maize deity figure in the stories painted on the pottery...
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35.00 GBP
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Mingei
Art Without Heroes
ISBN: HB: 9780300274288,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
168 pp., 27,0x21,6 cm, 121 colour illus.
168 pp., 27,0x21,6 cm, 121 colour illus.
An exploration of the evolution of the Japanese Mingei (folk art) movement within the context of today's concerns.
Originating in Japan in the 1920s, the Mingei movement was based on the principle that beauty is inherent in handmade, everyday objec...
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35.00 GBP
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Artists' Things
Rediscovering Lost Property from Eighteenth-Century France
ISBN: PB: 9781606068632,
Getty Publications,
January 2024
374 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 140 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
374 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 140 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
Artists are makers of things. Yet it is a measure of the disembodied manner in which we generally think about artists that we rarely consider the everyday items they own. This innovative book looks at objects that once belonged to artists, revealing...
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50.00 GBP
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Persian Cultures of Power and the Entanglement of the Afro-Eurasian World
ISBN: PB: 9781606068427,
Getty Publications,
January 2024
296 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 56 colour illus., 54 black&white illus., 1 map
296 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 56 colour illus., 54 black&white illus., 1 map
With the rise of the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BCE), Persian institutions of kingship became the model for legitimacy, authority, and prestige across three continents. Despite enormous upheavals, Iranian visual and political cultures connected an ev...
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55.00 GBP
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David Rittenhouse
Philosopher-Mechanick of Colonial Philadelphia and His Famous Clocks
ISBN: HB: 9780300272956,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
272 pp., 29,2x24,1 cm, 365 colour illus.
272 pp., 29,2x24,1 cm, 365 colour illus.
A lush and in-depth celebration of the clocks of David Rittenhouse, one of eighteenth-century America's greatest scientists and engineers
"David Rittenhouse: Philosopher-Mechanick of Colonial Philadelphia and His Famous Clocks" brings a completely...
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60.00 GBP
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