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Repairing works of art and writing about them-the practices that became art conservation and art history-share a common ancestry. This handsomely i...

Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793) continues to fascinate historians, writers, and filmmakers more than two centuries after her death. She became a symbo...

This book offers the most detailed investigation thus far of the materials and methods of this key American Abstract Expressionist artist.Publisher...

The first study devoted to classical art's vital creative impact on the work of the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens.Publisher: Getty Trust Publica...

A maverick in the history of photography, lshiuchi Miyako burst onto the photography scene in Tokyo in the mid-1970s, at a time when men dominated ...

Investigates the idea of beauty over time and space. This book offers a chronological account whose conceptual and historical paradigms have been r...

The term antiquarianism refers to engagement with the material heritage of the past - an engagement that preceded the modern academic discipline of...

Marking the three hundredth anniversary of Jean Antoine Watteau's death, this publication takes a close, revealing look at his recently rediscovere...

A pathbreaking call to halt the intertwined crises of cultural heritage attacks and mass atrocities and mobilize international efforts to protect p...

This collection of unique works by 150 Los Angeles graffiti and tattoo artists represents an unprecedented collaboration across the city's diverse ...

The first study devoted to a single sculptor in ancient America, as understood through four unprovenanced masterworks traced to a small sector of G...

Publisher: Getty Trust PublicationsAuthor(s): GardnerIllustration(s): 1 b&w illustrationNumber of pages: 80Collection: Getty Publications - (Yale)P...

This groundbreaking book provides the first detailed account of the materials and techniques of perhaps the most radical-and, until now, least stud...

Offers investigation of the material and philosophical aspects of conserving contemporary art. This title gives a comprehensive overview of the man...

This richly illustrated book is the first monograph to explore the prolific career of the celebrated photographer Anthony Barboza.Publisher: Getty ...

A resource for the photographic conservator, conservation scientist, curator, as well as professional collector, this volume synthesizes both the m...

In 1505, Michelangelo began planning the magnificent tomb for Pope Julius II, which would dominate the next forty years of his career. This definit...

This illustrated volume examines the different methods artists and anatomists used to reveal the inner workings of the human body and evoke wonder ...

What is a pyxis? Who was the Amasis Painter? How did Greek vases get their distinctive black and orange colours? This volume offers definitions and...

When life (in a global pandemic) imitates art . . .

Gustave Caillebotte: Painting the Paris of Naturalism, 1872-1887 is the first book to study the life and artistic development of this painter in de...

This abundantly illustrated volume offers an exploration of the depictions of illness and healing in Western artworks that range from Egyptian wall...

This thought-provoking and original book argues that hyperimages-calculated displays of images on walls or pages-have played a major role in the hi...

This volume provides a collection of texts on the conservation of art and architecture. Aimed at students of art history as well as conservation, t...

In the margin, for quick access by the reader, is a summary of the essential characteristics of the symbol in question, the derivation of its name,...

An exploration of how an official French visual culture normalized France's colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects to racialized ideas ...

Abundantly illustrated, this essential volume examines depictions of the Underworld in southern Italian vase painting and explores the religious an...

Los Angeles based contemporary artist Ed Ruscha is celebrated for his paintings, drawings, prints, and artist's book, receiving widespread critical...

This publication presents fascinating new findings on ancient Romano-Egyptian funerary portraits preserved in internationalcollections.

At the heart of all good art museum teaching is an effort to bring people and artworks together in meaningful ways. But what constitutes an experie...

Presenting dynamic research, this publication explores two millennia of cultural interactions between Egypt, Greece, and Rome.Publisher: Getty Trus...

A unique seventeenth-century account of painting as it was practiced, taught, and discussed during a period of extraordinary artistic and intellect...

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) never crossed the Atlantic himself, but his impact in colonial Latin America was profound. This volume excavates his ...

"This volume assembles for the first time the writings of the groundbreaking art historian, critic, and curator Marcia Tucker"--Provided by publisher.

Available in English for the first time, Julius von Schlosser's seminal work in the history of art and collecting was the first study to interpret ...

Originally coined by the Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg in 1930, the term concrete denotes abstract painting with no reference to external reality....

This abundantly illustrated book is an illuminating exploration of the impact of medieval imagery on three hundred years of visual culture.Publishe...

The story of Seville's Archive of the Indies reveals how current views of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are based on radical historical r...

This volume explores the changing process of evaluating objects during the period of Japan's rapid modernization.Publisher: Getty Trust Publication...

For the first time, Anton Wagner's groundbreaking 1935 book that launched the study of Los Angeles as an urban metropolis is available in English.P...

This innovative volume is the first to address the conservation of contemporary art made from biological materials such as plants, foods, and bodil...