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The first English-language book to comprehensively discuss the history and methodology of conserving medieval polychromewood sculpture.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When life (in a global pandemic) imitates art . . .
The first study devoted to classical art's vital creative impact on the work of the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens.
An exploration of how an official French visual culture normalized France's colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects to racialized ideas of life in the empire.
A unique seventeenth-century account of painting as it was practiced, taught, and discussed during a period of extraordinary artistic and intellectual ferment in the Netherlands.
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 sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cabinets of wonder as precursors to the modern museum, situating them within a history of collecting going back to Greco-Roman antiquity.
Thoroughly researched and beautifully produced, this catalogue complements the first comprehensive retrospective in the United States of Imogen Cunningham's work in over thirty-five years.
Presents a biography of J. Paul Getty and a history of the collections and the buildings that have housed them. Documents and photographs help to illustrate Getty's life as he travelled the world, and over 100 reproductions show the range and depth of the collections.
Offers fresh insights into the evolution of the forms and meanings of Roman art. The author offers a cultural history of the functions of the visual arts, the messages that these images carried, and the values that they affirmed in late Republican Rome and the Empire.
"Imagination is the name of the game, and Perry plays it with distinction. Eye-catching, mind-bending illustrations."-Booklist
A richly illustrated, comprehensive introduction to the visionary artist William Blake.
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