Books in the Getty Publications - (Yale) series

This richly illustrated catalogue features photographs by three Mexican women, each representing a different generation, who have explored and transform notions of Mexican identity in works that range from the documentary to the poetic.

During the Renaissance, artists from Italy to Flanders and England to Germany depicted nature in their religious art to intensify the spiritual experience of the viewer. Devotional manuscripts for personal or communal usewere filled with some of the most beautiful nature studies of this period.

A compelling and vibrant exploration of one of the greatest Flemish illuminated manuscripts, including stunning reproductions of the illuminations-never before published in colour.

An examination of the development, role, and influence of the British decorative art dealers who invented a new Anglo-Gallicstyle for elite interiors.

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

Focuses on all known aspects of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman cults and rituals. In this volume, fifty-five authors discuss various life stages, health, sustenance, craft production, economics, travel, public and private life, guilds, priesthoods, priestly colleges and other institutions, law, diplomacy, and war.

This is a study of the Victorian photographer's photograph "Pasha and Bayadere". It includes information about the life and career of Roger Fenton, best known for his photographs of The Crimean War.

Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793) continues to fascinate historians, writers, and filmmakers more than two centuries after her death. She became a symbol of the excesses of France's aristocracy in the eighteenth century that helped pave the way to dissolution of the country's monarchy.

The newest addition to the Artist's Materials series offers the first technical study of one of Australia's greatest modern painters.

In the summer of 1874, Edouard Manet (1832-1883) and Claude Monet (1840-1926), two outstanding painters of the nascent Impressionist movement, spent their holidays together in Argenteuil on the Seine River. Their growing friendship is expressed in their artwork. This book offers a look at one of the defining images of the Impressionist movement.

A practical manual for the microscopic analysis of paint, coatings, fibres and adhesives - materials found in works of art.

This volume brings together contributions from specialists in a wide range of fields who examine issues of sustainability as they relate to heritage conservation. The topics range in scale from individual buildings and sites to cities, landscapes and other historic environments.

This volume provides a striking account of the life, destruction, rediscovery, and cultural significance of the Roman town ofHerculaneum and its grandest residence-the House of the Bicentenary.

This volume analyzes the extraordinary patronage of modern architecture that the Tremaine family sustained for nearly fourdecades in the mid-twentieth century.

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.

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 milestone publication on the occasion of a major international exhibition that examines cross-cultural contact between Greece, Rome and Egypt.

From the 1920s to the time of his death in 1975, photographer Walker Evans was obsessed with the signage he found in modern America--from billboards to gas station pumps to street graffiti to handmade announcements of a Saturday-night dance. This book features 50 of his photographs of signs from the Getty Museum's collection, plus 50 additional il

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

This set brings together three photographers who have strong European ties - Kertesz and Moholy-Nagy were born and grew to maturity there, and Man Ray spent almost 40 years there. Each was also active in America. The social and artistic ferment of two continents is reflected in their work.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze created "The Laundress" in 1761. This work traces the history of the painting, compares it to other Greuze paintings of laundresses and places the artist in the social and cultural mores of the period.

Part of the Medieval Imagination series, this title explores portraiture in the medieval and Renaissance periods.

Explores the issues surrounding the study and conservation of earthen architecture. This title addresses such themes as earthen architecture in Mali, conservation of living sites, local knowledge systems and intangible aspects, seismic and other natural forces, and the management of archaeological sites.