Collecting Mesoamerican Art before 1940
A New World of Latin American Antiquities
ISBN: PB: 9781606068724,
Getty Publications,
February 2024
336 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 91 colour illus., 27 black&white illus., 1 table, 1 map
336 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 91 colour illus., 27 black&white illus., 1 table, 1 map
This book traces the fascinating history of how and why ancient Mesoamerican objects have been collected. It begins with the pre-Hispanic antiquities that first entered European collections in the sixteenth century as gifts or seizures, continues thr...
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55.00 GBP
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Art History and Anthropology
Modern Encounters, 1870-1970
ISBN: PB: 9781606068793,
Getty Publications,
December 2023
272 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 51 colour illus., 31 black&white illus.
272 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 51 colour illus., 31 black&white illus.
While today we are experiencing a revival of world art and the so-called global turn of art history, encounters between art historians and anthropologists remain rare. Even after a century and a half of interactions between these epistemologies, a sc...
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55.00 GBP
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Encounters in Video Art in Latin America
ISBN: PB: 9781606067918,
Getty Publications,
October 2023
288 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 61 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.
288 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 61 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.
With insightful essays and interviews, this volume examines how artists have experimented with the medium of video across different regions of Latin America since the 1960s. The emergence of video art in Latin America is marked by multiple points of...
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55.00 GBP
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Henry Van de Velde
Selected Essays, 1889-1914
ISBN: PB: 9781606067949,
Getty Publications,
March 2023
392 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm
392 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm
The first English collection of writings by Henry van de Velde, one of the most influential designers and theorists of the twentieth century. Belgian artist, architect, designer, and theorist Henry van de Velde (1863-1957) was a highly original and i...
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50.00 GBP
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Codice Maya de Mexico
Understanding the Oldest Surviving Book of the Americas
ISBN: PB: 9781606067888,
Getty Publications,
October 2022
96 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm
96 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm
An in-depth exploration of the history, authentication, and modern relevance of Codice Maya de Mexico, the oldest surviving book of the Americas. Ancient Maya scribes recorded prophecies and astronomical observations on the pages of painted books. Al...
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21.99 GBP
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Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities
ISBN: PB: 9781606068076,
Getty Publications,
September 2022
636 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 61 colour illus., 12 black&white illus., 7 maps, 2 tables
636 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 61 colour illus., 12 black&white illus., 7 maps, 2 tables
A pathbreaking call to halt the intertwined crises of cultural heritage attacks and mass atrocities and mobilize international efforts to protect people and cultures. Intentional destruction of cultural heritage has a long history. Contemporary examp...
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75.00 GBP
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Transpacific Engagements
Trade, Translation, and Visual Culture of Entangled Empires (1565-1898)
ISBN: PB: 9786218028227,
ISBN: HB: 9786218028258,
Getty Publications,
September 2022
320 pp., 30,5x24,1 cm, 124 colour illus.
320 pp., 30,5x24,1 cm, 124 colour illus.
This wide-ranging collection of scholarly essays explores the hybrid cultures, intellectual clashes, and dynamic exchanges of the transpacific region in the age of imperialism. Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, competing European empire...
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40.00 GBP
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48.00 GBP
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Egypt and the Classical World
Cross-Cultural Encounters in Antiquity
ISBN: PB: 9781606067376,
Getty Publications,
July 2022
202 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, colour illus.
202 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, colour illus.
From Mycenaean weaponry found among the cargo of a Bronze Age shipwreck off the Turkish coast to the Egyptian-inspired domestic interiors of a luxury villa built in Greece during the Roman Empire, Egypt and the Classical World documents two millennia...
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45.00 GBP
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Fantasy of the Middle Ages
An Epic Journey through Imaginary Medieval Worlds
ISBN: HB: 9781606067581,
Getty Publications,
July 2022
144 pp., 26,0x22,9 cm, 140 colour illus.
144 pp., 26,0x22,9 cm, 140 colour illus.
From the soaring castles of Sleeping Beauty to the bloody battles of "Game of Thrones", from Middle-earth in "The Lord of the Rings" to mythical beasts in "Dungeons & Dragons" and from Medieval Times to the Renaissance Faire to Disneyland, the Middle...
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26.00 GBP
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Flesh and Bones
The Art of Anatomy
ISBN: HB: 9781606067697,
Getty Publications,
March 2022
248 pp., 27,9x20,3 cm, 147 colour illus.
248 pp., 27,9x20,3 cm, 147 colour illus.
For centuries, anatomy was a fundamental component of artistic training, as artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo sought to skillfully portray the human form. In Europe, illustrations that captured the complex structure of the body-spect...
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45.00 GBP
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