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.
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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£50.00
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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.
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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£16.99
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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.
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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£35.00
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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
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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£50.00
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Drawing on Blue
European Drawings on Blue Paper, 1400s - 1700s
ISBN: PB: 9781606068670,
Getty Publications,
February 2024
160 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 107 colour illus.
160 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 107 colour illus.
The rich history of blue paper, from the late fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, illuminates themes of transcultural interchange, international trade, and global reach. Through the examinations of significant works, this volume investigates c...
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£30.00
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East Asian Aesthetics and the Space of Painting in Eighteenth Century Europe
ISBN: PB: 9781606067970,
Getty Publications,
January 2024
272 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 46 colour illus., 101 black&white illus.
272 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 46 colour illus., 101 black&white illus.
This volume offers the first critical account of how European imports of East Asian textiles, porcelain, and lacquers, along with newly published descriptions of the Chinese garden, inspired a revolution in the role of painting in early modern Europe...
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£60.00
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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
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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
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Camille Claudel
ISBN: HB: 9781606068700,
Getty Publications,
November 2023
328 pp., 27,3x24,1 cm, 256 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
328 pp., 27,3x24,1 cm, 256 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
Camille Claudel (1864-1943) was among the most daring and visionary sculptors of the late nineteenth century. Although much attention has been paid to her tumultuous life-her affair with her mentor, Auguste Rodin; the premature end to her career; her...
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£55.00
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Reckoning with Millet's "Man with a Hoe", 1863-1900
ISBN: PB: 9781606068557,
Getty Publications,
October 2023
136 pp., 21,9x18,4 cm, 45 colour illus., 13 black&white illus.
136 pp., 21,9x18,4 cm, 45 colour illus., 13 black&white illus.
A monumentalizing portrayal of a peasant bowed over by brutal toil, "Man with a Hoe" (ca. 1860-1862) by Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875) is arguably the most art historically significant painting in the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection of nineteenth...
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£22.99
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