Books published by Getty Trust Publications

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.

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) never crossed the Atlantic himself, but his impact in colonial Latin America was profound. This volume excavates his unequaled reception in the New World in the form of prints made after his works, arguing that colonial artists forged new frameworks for artistic creativity by conforming to European printed designs

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

"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.

Merging memoir, biography, and cultural history, this distinctive book, a bestseller in France, traces the life of Dora Maar (1907-1997) through a serendipitous encounter with the artist's address book.

A beautifully illustrated, accessible volume about one of the Getty Center's best-loved sites.

For the first time, a critical selection of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture's highly influential conferences isavailable in English.

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

"Inside the Getty takes readers on a tour like no other: from J. Paul Getty's original museum in his home near Malibu to the re-creation of an ancient Roman villa on the property; from the seemingly endless corridors that run beneath the Getty Center in Los Angeles to the stunning landscaping that surrounds the structures; from the galleries and storerooms of the J. Paul Getty Museum to the library and special collections of the Getty Research Institute: from the scientific laboratories of the Getty Conservation Institute to the worldwide philanthropy of the Getty Foundation; and from the public places and programs of the J. Paul Getty Trust to the secret spaces and stories of this landmark organization."--Page 4 of cover.

A comprehensive overview of ancient ambers, the only such book in English, is now revised.

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

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 groundbreaking book explores why and how to encourage physical and sensory engagement with works of art.