Arthur Tress
Rambles, Dreams, and Shadows
ISBN: HB: 9781606068618,
Getty Publications,
November 2023
264 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 17 colour illus., 198 black&white illus.
264 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 17 colour illus., 198 black&white illus.
Arthur Tress (b. 1940) is a singular figure in the landscape of postwar American photography. His seminal series, The Dream Collector, depicts Tress's interests in dreams, nightmares, fantasies, and the unconscious and established him as one of the f...
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50.00 GBP
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Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Behold
ISBN: HB: 9781606068588,
Getty Publications,
October 2023
216 pp., 26,7x22,9 cm, 193 colour illus., 1 black&white illus.
216 pp., 26,7x22,9 cm, 193 colour illus., 1 black&white illus.
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons (b. 1959) makes powerful work that holds and beholds the stories of historically silenced peoples and urges societal change. Her journey as an artist, teacher, and activist has taken her from Cuba through the United States...
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40.00 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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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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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 GBP
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Absolute Realist
Collected Writings of Albert Renger-Patzsch, 1923-1967
ISBN: PB: 9781606067802,
Getty Publications,
October 2023
336 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 76 black&white illus.
336 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 76 black&white illus.
This annotated anthology presents the first English translation of German photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch's collected writings. A towering figure in the history of photography, Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897-1966) has come to epitomize New Objectivit...
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45.00 GBP
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Balthazar
A Black African King in Medieval and Renaissance Art
ISBN: PB: 9781606067857,
Getty Publications,
October 2023
160 pp., 26,7x21,6 cm, 121 colour illus.
160 pp., 26,7x21,6 cm, 121 colour illus.
This abundantly illustrated book examines the figure of Balthazar, one of the biblical magi, and explains how and why he came to be depicted as a Black African king. According to the Gospel of Matthew, magi from the East, following a star, traveled t...
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35.00 GBP
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Miracles and Machines
A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend
ISBN: HB: 9781606068397,
Getty Publications,
August 2023
256 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 74 colour illus., 67 black&white illus.
256 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 74 colour illus., 67 black&white illus.
This volume tells the singular story of an uncanny object at the cusp of art and science: a 450-year-old automaton known as "the monk". The walking, gesticulating figure of a friar, in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum o...
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40.00 GBP
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Rene Magritte
The Artist's Materials
ISBN: PB: 9781606068007,
Getty Publications,
August 2023
120 pp., 25,4x19,1 cm, 85 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
120 pp., 25,4x19,1 cm, 85 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
Rene Magritte (1898-1967) is the most famous Belgian artist of the twentieth century and a celebrated representative of the Surrealist movement. Much has been written about his practices, artistic community, and significance within the history of mod...
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35.00 GBP
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Shaping Roman Landscape
Ecocritical Approaches to Architecture and Decoration in Early Imperial Italy
ISBN: HB: 9781606068489,
Getty Publications,
August 2023
224 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 78 colour illus., 8 black&white illus., 24 maps
224 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 78 colour illus., 8 black&white illus., 24 maps
Landscape emerged as a significant theme in the Roman Late Republican and Early Imperial periods. Writers described landscape in texts and treatises, its qualities were praised and sought out in everyday life, and contemporary perceptions of the natu...
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55.00 GBP
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