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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.

Louis de Carmontelle was an 18th-century French draftsman, painter, and garden designer. In 1783, he began painting a series of panoramas on translucent paper that, when cranked through a backlit viewing box gave viewers the experience of journeying through beautiful landscapes. This title offers glimpse into the beginnings of the moving image.

This volume explores the conservation and presentation of dress in museums and beyond as a complex, collaborative process.

Lavishly illustrated and exhaustively researched, this volume provides the first-ever comprehensive study-in any language-of this type of view painting. In examining these paintings alongside the historical events depicted in them, Peter Bjorn Kerber carefully reconstructs the meaning and context these paintings possessed for the artists.

Kinetic art not only includes movement but often depends on it to produce an intended effect and therefore fully realize its nature as art. It can take a multiplicity of forms and include a wide range of motion, from motorized and electrically driven movement to motion as the result of wind, light, or other sources of energy. Kinetic art emerged throughout the twentieth century and had its major developments in the 1950s and 1960s. Professionals responsible for conserving contemporary art are in the midst of rethinking the concept of authenticity and solving the dichotomy often felt between original materials and functionality of the work of art. The contrast is especially acute with kinetic art when a compromise between the two often seems impossible. Also to be considered are issues of technological obsolescence and the fact that an artist's chosen technology often carries with it strong sociological and historical information and meanings. The free online edition of this open-access book is available at www.getty.edu/publications/keepitmoving/ and includes zoomable figures and videos. Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book.

The first graphic biography of renowned Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide, written by award-winning YA author Isabel Quintero and illustrated by artist Zeke Pena

Science and art combine in this captivating, lushly illustrated biography of Maria Sibylla Merian, one of the world's first entomologists, who was also a botanist, naturalist and a celebrated artist.

Contains 34 essays by professionals from various disciplines, from a conference on the preservation of contemporary art. This volume attempts to identify the objects which will define the art of the 20th century.

Provides an exploration of glassmaking in the ancient world. This title describes the uses glass and glassmaking in the ancient world.

Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) is widely regarded as one of the most influential and innovative post-World War II Italian artists. This title presents a technical study in English of this important painter and an informative overview of Fontana's life and work.

Peter Paul Rubens was one of the most talented and successful artists working in 17th-century Europe. During his illustrious career as a court painter and diplomat, he expressed a fascination with exotic costumes and headdresses. This title presents an exploration of the mystery that surrounds of Ruben's most well-known and intriguing drawings.

The relationship between archaeology and conservation has long been complex and, at times, challenging. This guide to conservation practices on archaeological excavations covers both structures and artefacts, starting from the moment when they are uncovered. It is geared primarily for professionals engaged in the physical practice of excavation.

Ancient bronze statuary provides a sense of immediacy, a window directly back to the classical world. The wistful expression of a young Roman woman, the fixed jaw of a politician, and the tensed muscles of a Greek athlete appear startlingly lifelike, transfixing the viewer with their realism. This book provides an overview of classical bronzes.

Presents works of two pioneering postwar architects. This volume features an array of images, and unveils authors architectural practice. It also includes ideas about the relationship of architecture and environment.

This is the Spanish edition of "The Unbroken Thread". It details the efforts to conserve an important collection of traditional garments created by indigenous weavers in the Oaxaca region of Mexico and documents the use of the textiles in daily life and ceremony.

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.

El Pueblo de Los Angeles was founded in 1781 by settlers from present-day Mexico, as well as settlers of Indian, African and European descent. Illustrated in colour, this volume uses text, paintings and photographs to create a portrait of the pueblo, its history, and its heritage.

Tells of Olvera Street's, the site of Los Angeles' original Latino settlement, Christmas tradition of the 'posada', a procession that re-enacts Mary and Joseph's pilgrimage to Bethlehem, and of the 'pinata', a papier-mache vessel filled with toys that children break open at the Posada's end.

A transfixing account of some of the most spectacular works of art on paper ever created.

Sixty terracottas are investigated here by noted scholar Maria Lucia Ferruzza, comprising a selection of significant types from the Getty's larger collection-life-size sculptures, statuettes, heads and busts, altars, and decorative appliques.

Combining art historical and scientific analysis, experts from the Getty Conservation Institute and Getty Research Institute are collaborating with the Coleccio n Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, to research the formal strategies and material decisions of these artists working in the concrete and neo-concrete vein.

This collection explores Kollwitz's most creative years, examining her sequences of images, with a focus on the tension betweenmaking and meaning.

"Nature and Its Symbols is the fifth volume in the series A Guide to Imagery, reference guides whose goal is to explain the symbols used in art. This volume includes chapters on plants, flowers, fruits, and animals of the earth, air, and water, as well as fantastical creatures such as centaurs, griffons, and dragons. The vivid illustrations, which include paintings and tapestries from some of the world's premier museums, are accompanied by texts that offer careful analyses of the artists' depictions of the natural world. Each entry discusses the symbolic significance of the particular plant, fruit, or animal portrayed, its mythic or literary origins, and the episodes or individuals associated with it. These salient points are also called out in summary form within each entry, making the information easily accessible. The reader discovers, for example, that the iris can represent Jesus or the purity of the Virgin Mary as well as the kings of France or the city of Florence. The monkey, which can be symbolic of the devil, heresy, or bad temper, is also associated with the three wise men who traveled to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus. By bringing to life the natural world as portrayed in art, this book will surely be an indispensable resource for museum visitors, art lovers, and students.

Presents a history of Christian Church as portrayed throughout Western art. This book examines artistic representations of liturgical objects - including altars, crosses, and censers. It offers an analysis of the lives and portraits of notable leaders, from Peter and Paul to Thomas More and Pope Paul VI.

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.

Edward Henry Weston (1886-1958) first started taking photographs at the age of sixteen with a camera given to him by his father. Over the next five decades, he would come to be regarded by his peers as one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century. This volume is a collection of his photographic studies of the nude form.

A study of the paintings of Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), Dutch-born American abstract expressionist painter, from the 1940s through the 1970s. Using scientific examinations of the artist's pigments, binders, and supports, it informs art historical interpretations, presenting a key to the complicated evolution of the artist's work.

Mural, painted in 1943, was Pollock's first major commission. It was made for the entrance hall of the Manhattan duplex of Peggy Guggenheim who donated it to the University of Iowa in the 1950s where it stayed until its 2012 arrival for conservation and study at the Getty Center. This book unveils the findings of that examination.