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The first English-language book to comprehensively discuss the history and methodology of conserving medieval polychromewood sculpture.

This collection explores Kollwitz's most creative years, examining her sequences of images, with a focus on the tension betweenmaking and meaning.

The first truly comprehensive analysis of the history, practice, and conservation of painting on canvas.

"A sumptuously illustrated compact volume which uses full colour images and the accented gold of illuminated manuscripts to full advantage. . . . [This book] tantalises the reader through the well written text and accompanying illustrations."-European Review of History

A heavily illustrated and highly designed tribute to Los Angeles architect Pierre Koenig, a key figure of the Los Angeles Modernist movement.

Based on the revised German edition of Max Schweidler's "Die Instandetzung von Kupferstichen, Zeichnungen, Buchern usw" - originally published in 1934 - this book includes a glossary, and an illustrated appendix. It complements Schweidler's text in aiding curators, conservators, and collectors on the conservation and restoration of works on paper.

This comprehensive survey of Etruscan civilization, from its origin in the Villanovan Iron Age in the ninth century B.C. to its absorption by Rome in the first century B.C., combines well-known aspects of the Etruscan world with new discoveries and fresh insights into the role of women in Etruscan society. In addition, the Etruscans are contrasted to the Greeks, whom they often emulated, and to the Romans, who at once admired and disdained them. The result is a compelling and complete picture of a people and a culture. This in-depth examination of Etruria examines how differing access to mineral wealth, trade routes, and agricultural land led to distinct regional variations. Heavily illustrated with ancient Etruscan art and cultural objects, the text is organized both chronologically and thematically, interweaving archaeological evidence, analysis of social structure, descriptions of trade and burial customs, and an examination of pottery and works of art.

"This volume publishes Yukio Lippit's lecture of the same title, held at the Getty Center on 23 September 2014."

A fascinating look at one of photography's most controversial and beloved icons

In August 1576, in the midst of an outbreak of the plague, the Spanish Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagun and 22 indigenous artists locked themselves inside the school of Santa Cruz de Tlaltelolco in Mexico City with a mission: to create the first illustrated encyclopedia in the New World. This title deals with this manuscript.

Controversial, misunderstood, and sometimes overlooked, Minor White (1908-1976) is one of the great photographers of the 20th-century, whose ideas exerted a powerful influence on a generation of photographers and still resonate today. This is an illustrated tribute to one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth-century.

Looks at the work of three artists who paved the way for ceramics to be considered fine art. This title focuses on artists John Mason (b 1927), Kenneth Price (b 1935), and Peter Voulkos (1924-2002) and their radical early work in post-war Los Angeles where they formed the vanguard of a new California ceramics movement.

A study of the paintings of Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), Dutch-born American abstract expressionist painter, from the 1940s through the 1970s. Using scientific examinations of the artist's pigments, binders, and supports, it informs art historical interpretations, presenting a key to the complicated evolution of the artist's work.

Offers a discussion of the materials and processes used in eight artistic media - painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, mosaics, ceramics, glass, and metalwork. This title contains 400 full-colour illustrations, and provides insight into the creation of many of the world's greatest works of art.

Provides a illustrated look at world of luxury objects in 18th-century Paris. This title seeks to re-imagine objects from 18th-century Paris within their original context, showing how they were used in the daily routines of the elite members of society.

Paul Strand (1890-1976) defined twentieth-century American photography in a prolific career that spanned more than sixty years. His photographs explore the abstract and dynamic qualities found in the natural world, search for humanity in portraits of people and places, and document theexperience of life itself. Highlighting the development of the photographer's aesthetic from his early encounters with Cubism to his humanistic depictions of people throughout the world, this book presents nearly forty years of Strand's wide-ranging and powerful work.In Focus: Paul Strand is published to coincide with an exhibition of the photographer's work at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles from May 10 through September 4, 2005.Commentaries on the pictures, along with an introduction and chronology of Strand's life, are provided by Anne Lyden, associate curator of photographs at the Getty Museum. The book also includes an edited transcript of a colloquium on Strand's work that incorporates Lyden's contributions along withthose of five other participants: David Featherstone, a freelance writer and editor; Weston Naef, curator of photographs at the Getty Museum; Naomi Rosenblum, independent scholar; Mark Ruwedel, photographer and professor of photography at California State University, Long Beach; and AlanTrachtenberg, Neil Gray Jr. Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Yale University.

"A survey of all the mosaics in the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection, documenting their physical features as well as the contexts of their discovery and excavation across Rome's expanding empire--from its center in Italy to provinces in southern Gaul, North Africa, and ancient Syria"--Provided by publisher.

This timely volume brings together case studies that address the urgent need to manage energy use and improve thermal comfort in modern buildings while preserving their historic significance and character.

Originally coined by the Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg in 1930, the term concrete denotes abstract painting with no reference to external reality. Presenting new scholarship, this publication is the first comprehensive study of the Concrete art movement in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay from the 1940s to the 1960s.

In almost thirty interviews, Donatien Grau probes some of the world's most prominent thinkers and preeminent arts leaders on the past, present, and future of the encyclopedic museum.

A new look at the work of Mario Giacomelli, one of Italy's foremost photographers of the twentieth century.

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

Repairing works of art and writing about them-the practices that became art conservation and art history-share a common ancestry. This handsomely illustrated volume charts the intersections between the two fields in the treatment of Italian Renaissance paintings in nineteenth-century Europe and proposes a model for a new conservation history.

This groundbreaking book provides the first detailed account of the materials and techniques of perhaps the most radical-and, until now, least studied-major American Abstract Expressionist.

This volume examines the unprecedented growth of several cities in Latin America from 1830 to 1930, observing how sociopolitical changes and upheavals created the conditions for the birth of the metropolis.

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