Looking at Fashion A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques
ISBN: PB: 9781606068991, Getty Publications, August 2024
144 pp., 23,2x15,8 cm, 94 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.
What is an epaulette? What is a keffiyeh? These clothing items – and hundreds more – are entertainingly explained and vividly illustrated in this accessible guide. Whether in art or life, fashion makes a statement. It gives form to the temper of the...
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Mobile Image from Watteau to Boucher
ISBN: PB: 9781606068885, Getty Publications, August 2024
224 pp., 25,4x19,1 cm, 121 colour illus., 21 black&white illus.
Reframing long-held assumptions about what distinguishes fine from decorative art, this innovative study explores a mode of making, seeing, and thinking that slices across eighteenth-century visual culture. This book provides a new way of thinking a...
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Secrets We Keep Hidden Histories of the Byzantine Empire
ISBN: PB: 9781606069080, Getty Publications, August 2024
112 pp., 21,0x15,2 cm, 28 colour illus.
An intriguing look at secrecy during the Byzantine Empire and the role of the art historian in seeking truth. Secrecy has played a role throughout human history and continues to capture the popular imagination. Some of the most seductive aspects of...
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Inventories and Surveys for Heritage Management Lessons for the Digital Age
ISBN: PB: 9781606068816, Getty Publications, July 2024
180 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 65 colour illus.
This is the first step-by-step guide to the design, implementation, and maintenance of heritage inventories and surveys. A critical first step in the conservation of cultural heritage is to identify and understand the places we want to protect. Inve...
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New Building in Old Cities Writings by Gustavo Giovannoni on Architectural and Urban Conservation
ISBN: PB: 9781606068755, Getty Publications, July 2024
408 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 80 colour illus., 75 black&white illus.
The highly influential writings by an important early advocate for the conservation of historic cities are made available for the first time in English. The Italian architect, historian, and restorer Gustavo Giovannoni (1873-1947) was a key figure i...
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Guidelines for the Technical Examination of Bronze Sculpture
ISBN: PB: 9781606066904, Getty Publications, June 2024
518 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 468 colour illus., 80 charts, 15 diagrams
Since the fourth millennium BCE, bronze has been the preferred medium for some of the most prestigious and sacred works of art. But only through interdisciplinary research can the fabrication of these extraordinary objects be properly investigated, i...
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Book of Marvels A Medieval Guide to the Globe
ISBN: HB: 9781606069035, Getty Publications, June 2024
152 pp., 25,4x25,4 cm, 99 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
This fascinating volume explores an important fifteenth-century illustrated manuscript tradition that provides a revealing glimpse of how western Europeans conceptualized the world. From the classical encyclopedias of Pliny to famous tales such as "...
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Money in the Air Art Dealers and the Making of a Transatlantic Market, 1880-1930
ISBN: PB: 9781606068915, Getty Publications, June 2024
384 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 88 colour illus., 42 black&white illus., 17 tables
This volume explores the crucial role of art dealers in creating a transatlantic art market in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. "There was money in the air, ever so much money", wrote Henry James in 1907, reflecting on the American...
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Wall to Wall Mural Art around the World
ISBN: HB: 9781947440081, Getty Publications, May 2024
80 pp., 26,0x21,6 cm, 85 colour illus.
"Wall to Wall" presents an exciting tour of remarkable wall art around the globe, from prehistoric caves to futuristic wonders. People have been drawing on walls since ancient times. They do it to create beauty, to tell a story, to make a statement...
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Hippolyte Bayard and the Invention of Photography
ISBN: HB: 9781606068939, Getty Publications, April 2024
304 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 286 colour illus.
The first English-language volume about Hippolyte Bayard, one of the inventors of photography who helped transform the burgeoning medium into an art form. Hippolyte Bayard (1801-1887) is often characterized as an underdog in the early history of pho...
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