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
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Uta Barth
Peripheral Vision
ISBN: HB: 9781606068052,
Getty Publications,
April 2024
240 pp., 27,9x25,4 cm, 332 colour illus., 9 gatefolds
240 pp., 27,9x25,4 cm, 332 colour illus., 9 gatefolds
Los Angeles-based contemporary artist Uta Barth (b. 1958) has spent her decades-long career exploring the complexities and limits of human and mechanical vision. At first, her photographs appear to be deceptively simple depictions of everyday objects...
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£50.00
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Ruth Asawa
An Artist Takes Shape
ISBN: HB: 9781947440098,
Getty Publications,
March 2024
112 pp., 22,9x17,8 cm, 13 colour and black&white drawings
112 pp., 22,9x17,8 cm, 13 colour and black&white drawings
Brave, unconventional, and determined, Ruth Asawa let nothing stop her from living a life intertwined with art.
Renowned for her innovative wire sculptures, Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) was a teenager in Southern California when...
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£16.99
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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
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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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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
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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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