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.
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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16.99 GBP
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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.
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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50.00 GBP
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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
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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65.00 GBP
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Conserving Canvas
ISBN: PB: 9781606068243,
Getty Publications,
October 2023
640 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 373 colour illus.
640 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 373 colour illus.
In 2019 Yale University, with the support of the Getty Foundation, held an international conference, where nearly four hundred attendees from more than twenty countries gathered to discuss a vital topic: how best to conserve paintings on canvas. It w...
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80.00 GBP
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Roy Lichtenstein
Outdoor Painted Sculpture
ISBN: PB: 9781606066690,
Getty Publications,
May 2023
168 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 139 colour illus., 10 black&white illus., 13 tables
168 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 139 colour illus., 10 black&white illus., 13 tables
The first book-length study to examine the materials and techniques used in the fabrication and painting of the American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein's outdoor sculpture.
Vibrant color was essential to the paintings of the American pop artist Roy Li...
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35.00 GBP
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Properties of Plastics
A Guide for Conservators
ISBN: PB: 9781606066935,
Getty Publications,
August 2022
360 pp., 23,5x19,0 cm
360 pp., 23,5x19,0 cm
Almost every museum in the world is confronted with plastics in their collections. Research initiatives and knowledge concerning the conservation of heritage objects made of plastics have proliferated over the last twenty-five years, necessitating th...
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60.00 GBP
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Living Matter: The Preservation of Biological Materials in Contemporary Art
An International Conference Held in Mexico City, June 3-5, 2019
ISBN: HB: 9781606066874,
Getty Publications,
May 2022
362 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 267 colour illus., 4 tables
362 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 267 colour illus., 4 tables
Eggshells, flowers, onion peels, sponge cake, dried bread, breast milk-these are just a few of the biological materials that some contemporary artists have used to make art. But how can works made from such perishable ingredients be preserved? And wh...
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60.00 GBP
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Clyfford Still
The Artists Materials
ISBN: PB: 9781606066959,
Getty Publications,
August 2021
168 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm
168 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm
Among the most radical of the great American Abstract Expressionist painters, Clyfford Still has also long been among the least studied. Still severed ties with the commercial art world in the early 1950s, and his estate at the time of his death in 1...
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35.00 GBP
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Managing Energy Use in Modern Buildings
Case Studies in Conservation Practice
ISBN: PB: 9781606066973,
Getty Publications,
August 2021
192 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, colour illus.
192 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, colour illus.
This collection of ten case studies addresses the unique challenges surrounding the improvement of energy consumption and thermal comfort in modern buildings built between 1931 and 1969 and offers valuable lessons for other structures facing similar...
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50.00 GBP
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Renaissance Restored
ISBN: PB: 9781606066966,
Getty Publications,
July 2021
208 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm
208 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm
This handsomely illustrated volume traces the intersections of art history and paintings restoration in nineteenth-century Europe. Repairing works of art and writing about them-the practices that became art conservation and art history-share a common...
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55.00 GBP
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