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In the 1960s and '70s, collaborations between artists and engineers led to groundbreaking innovations in multisensory performance art that continue to resonate today

This book examines the life and legacy of Franklin D. Israel, an influential member of the Los Angeles school of architects

Illustrated with stunning new photography, this catalogue details the J. Paul Getty Museum's phenomenal holdings of ancient glass, spanning three millennia.

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This volume explores the crucial role of art dealers in creating a transatlantic art market in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This is the first online step-by-step guide to the design, implementation, and maintenance of heritage inventories and surveys.

An intriguing look at secrecy during the Byzantine Empire and the role of the art historian in seeking truth

This fascinating volume explores an important fifteenth-century illustrated manuscript tradition that provides a revealing glimpse of how Western Europeans conceptualized the world.

This abundantly illustrated volume is the first to explore the painted pottery of the ancient Greek, Moche, and Maya side by side.

What is an epaulette? What is a keffiyeh? These clothing items-and hundreds more-are entertainingly explained and vividly illustrated in this accessible guide.

Reframing long-held assumptions about what distinguishes fine from decorative art, this innovative study explores a mode of making, seeing, and thinking that slices across eighteenth-century visual culture.

The first English-language volume about Hippolyte Bayard, one of the inventors of photography who helped transform the burgeoning medium into an art form.

The highly influential writings by an important early advocate for the conservation of historic cities are made available for the first time in English.

This engaging book highlights the role of blue paper in the history of drawing.

"Exploring case studies from Australia, Austria, Brazil, France, Germany, and the United States, this volume addresses connections and rejections between art historians and anthropologists--often in the contested arena of "primitive art.""--

Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Reckoning with Millet's 'Man with a hoe,'" on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from September 12 to December 10, 202

This book traces the history of how and why ancient Mesoamerican objects have been collected. Drawing upon archival resources & international museum collections, the contributors analyze the ways shifting patterns of collecting have shaped modern academic disciplines as well as public, private & institutional attitudes toward Mesoamerican art.

Abundantly illustrated, this catalogue is a fascinating and comprehensive reevaluation of the French modernist sculptor Camille Claudel.

Arthur Tress (b. 1940) is a singular figure in the landscape of postwar American photography. This abundantly illustrated catalogue contextualizes the highly imaginative, fantastic work Tress became known for. It also imparts a fuller understanding of his career and the New York photographic scene of the 1960s and 1970s.

This innovative book looks at objects that once belonged to artists, revealing not only the fabric of the eighteenth-century art world in France but also unfamiliar-and sometimes unexpected-insights into the individuals who populated it including Jean-Antoine Watteau, Francois Boucher, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, and Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun.

This book provides the first exploration of the role that Persian cultures played in articulating the many ways power was expressed across Afro-Eurasia between the 6th century BCE and the 19th century CE. The essays analyze the intellectual and political exchanges of art, architecture, ritual and luxury material within and beyond the Persian world.

Contemporary artist Uta Barth has spent decades exploring the complexities and limits of human & mechanical vision. This richly illustrated book charts her career and her most significant compositional series, revealing the many ways she has drawn attention away from the primacy of a traditional photographic subject to what is on the periphery.

An insightful look at how East Asian notions of space transformed Western painting.

Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons (b. 1959) makes powerful work that holds and beholds the stories of historically silenced peoples and urges societal change. This volume, the first critical look at the artist's oeuvre in nearly two decades, surveys the concerns, materials, and places invoked throughout her forty-year career

A groundbreaking ecocritical study that examines how ideas about the natural and built environment informed architectural and decorative trends of the Roman Late Republican and Early Imperial periods.

The most authoritative publication in nearly fifty years on the subject of conserving paintings on canvas.

Vividly illustrated, this is the first comprehensive catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum's celebrated collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French silver.

"This richly illustrated book presents important information on the conservation and care of Roy Lichtenstein's painted outdoor sculptures"--

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Barbara T. Smith: The Way to Be, curated by Glenn Phillips and Pietro Rigolo, on view at the Getty Research Institute at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from 28 February to 16 July 2023.