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"Explores representations of Black subjects in Western art, from medieval Europe through the present day"--
"Hersilia's Sisters explores how the efflorescence of culture in 1790s France became a decisive influence on the art of Jacques-Louis David"--
An abundantly illustrated narrative that draws from the history of art, science, technology, artificial intelligence, psychology, religion, and conservation in telling the extraordinary story of a Renaissance robot that prays.
"This book offers an intellectual biography of George Kubler (1912-96), the foundational scholar and historian of ancient American art and archaeology and Spanish and Portuguese architecture"--
"Giacomo Ceruti (1698-1767) was born in Milan and active in Northern Italy between Lombardy and the Veneto. For his distinctive, large-scale paintings of low income tradespeople and individuals experiencing homelessness, whom he portrayed with dignity and sympathy, Ceruti came to be known as Il Pitocchetto (the little beggar). Accompanying the first US exhibition to focus solely on Ceruti, this publication explores relationships between art, patronage, and economic inequality in early modern Europe, considering why these paintings were commissioned and by whom, where such works were exhibited, and what they signified to contemporary audiences. Essays and a generous plate section contextualize and closely examine Ceruti's pictures of laborers and the unhoused, whom he presented as protagonists with distinct stories rather than as generic types. Topics include depictions of marginalized subjects in the history of early modern European art, the career of the artist and his place in the history of European painting, and the period discourses around poverty and social support. A detailed exhibition checklist, complete with provenance, exhibition history, and bibliography, provides information critical for the further understanding of Ceruti's oeuvre."--Front cover flap.
The first English collection of writings by Henry van de Velde, one of the most influential designers and theorists of the twentieth century.
"Originally published as Verita nascoste sui muri dei Maestri: Michelangelo, Raffaello, Perugino, Pintoricchio e gli altri in Vaticano copyright 2016 Editoriale Artemide s.r.l."--Title page verso
An in-depth exploration of the history, authentication, and modern relevance of Códice Maya de México, the oldest surviving book of the Americas.
This richly illustrated book is the first monograph to explore the prolific career of the celebrated photographer Anthony Barboza.
"This annotated anthology makes German photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch's essential writings available to an English-language audience for the first time"--
This abundantly illustrated book examines the figure of Balthazar, one of the biblical magi, and explains how and why he came to be depicted as a Black African king.
A pathbreaking call to halt the intertwined crises of cultural heritage attacks and mass atrocities and mobilize international efforts to protect people and cultures.
A practical, comprehensive resource on the complex behaviors of plastics written expressly for conservation and cultural heritage professionals.
American artist Man Ray spend the most productive years of his career, during the 1920s and 1930s, in Paris.
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.
'Building the Medieval World' is fourth in the popular Medieval Imagination series of small, affordable books drawing on manuscript illumination in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Library.
Images in the Margins is the third in the popular Medieval Imagination series of small, affordable books drawing on manuscript illumination in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Library. Each volume focuses on a particular theme and provides an accessible, delightful introduction to the imagination of the medieval world.
'Beasts Factual and Fantastic' features vivid and charming details from the wealth of manuscripts in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Library, along with a lively text; together both word and image provide an accessible and delightful introduction to the imagination of the medieval world.
Ever since they were first discovered and explored in 1709, the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum have excited the historical imagination of the West. This work presents thirteen diverse essays that trace how perceptions of the past have changed over the course of three centuries of excavations.
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.
The young Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) created a major stir in late-sixteenth-century Rome with the groundbreaking naturalism and highly charged emotionalism of his paintings. This illustrated volume takes a fresh look at Caravaggio's life and works.
This innovative volume is the first to address the conservation of contemporary art made from biological materials such as plants, foods, and bodily fluids.
An illuminating study of Persia's interactions and exchange of influences with ancient Greece and the Roman Empire.
The story of Seville's Archive of the Indies reveals how current views of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are based on radical historical revisionism in Spain in the late 1700s.
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