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. Vincent van Gogh painted Irises in the last year of his life, in the garden of the asylum at Saint-Remy, where he was recuperating from a period of mental illness. Featuring colour illustrations, this title presents a study of this Vincent van Gogh's most famous paintings.

A study of the work of William Henry Fox Talbot, who is credited with being the inventor of photography as we know it. It reproduces 50 of his photographs from the Getty Museum's collection, along with commentary on each. There is also an edited transcript of a colloquium on Talbot's career.

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.

A multivolume reference work on various aspects of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman cults and rituals. Providing both an overview and in depth investigation, this work covers the period from Homeric times (1000 BC) to late Roman times (AD 400). It deals with the elements of cult, such as: divination; prayer, gestures, and acts of prayer; and others.

Photographer John Humble has created a body of work that uniquely captures the distinctive architecture and natural environment of Southern California. This work is a celebration of Humble's distinctive view of Los Angeles - from the concrete channels of the Los Angeles River and the monumental freeways in the sky to the people and the cityscape.

These essays consider iconic photographs, archival collections, new and forgotten technologies, and conceptual challenges in photographing three-dimensional forms that have directed changing historical and stylistic attitudes about how we see, write about, and narrate histories of sculpture.

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

This groundbreaking book provides the first detailed account of the materials and techniques of perhaps the most radical-and, until now, least studied-major American Abstract Expressionist.

The Belgian artist, illustrator, sculptor, and photographer Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921) became a popular society portraitist in the 1880s, using elements that had served him well as an avant-garde symbolist painter: visual realism and a mood of silence, isolation, and reverie.

Analyzing artists' representations of angels and demons and heaven and hell from the Judeo-Christian tradition, this volume describes how they evolved over time. Divided into chapters, it looks at these images, and how they came to be portrayed with the physical attributes - wings, halos, horns, and cloven hooves.

Photography was introduced to China in the 1840s through the West's engagement in the Opium Wars and the subsequent reforms of Chinese statesmen. This title offers an illustrated exploration of the history of photography in China.

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.

Describes how Western art institutions and vocabulary were transplanted to Japan in the late nineteenth century, exposing the politics through which the words, categories, and values that structure our understanding of the field came to be while revealing the historicity of Western and non-Western art history.

By tracing the local printmaking communities, the academic establishment, as well as the significant influence of workshops like Gemini G E L and Cirrus Editions, the catalogue addresses the spectacular spread of printmaking from its modern beginnings in Southern California within the larger narrative of post-war American art.

Textiles have been made and used by every culture throughout history. However diverse - whether an Egyptian mummy wrapping, a Turkish carpet, Italian velvet, American quilt, or a Scottish kilt - all textiles have basic elements in common. This guide deals with the fundamental terms, materials, and techniques used to create textiles.

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.

Depicting Francois Boucher's individuality, this title presents the diversity of his talents, and also the variety of visual and intellectual traditions with which he engaged. It examines the artist's identity in relation to his portraits and self-portraits, his ingenious genre scenes, and his overlooked religious paintings.

A study of the Spitz book of hours, one of the finest French manuscripts in the collections of the Getty Museum, painted in the International style. Gregory Clark places the manuscript in the turbulent context of Parisian culture around 1420. All the book's miniatures are reproduced in colour.

This title reproduces, with commentary, "Le Case i Monu Menti di Pompeii" (1854) of Fausto and Felice Niccolini, the first work to completely and systematically present the public and private buildings so far excavated in Pompeii. It features the watercolours they created to document Pompeii.

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.

A collection of photographs by the German photographer August Sander. The book contains 55 plates with commentaries on each by Claudia Bohn-Spector. The book includes an edited transcription of a colloquium on Sander's life and work, and a timeline of milestones in his life.

Few human communities have remained untouched by outsiders. Whether by intent or outcome, colonialist mentalities have significantly shaped the practices of archaeology, anthropology and history. This book exmaines the material consequences of colonialism in nine essays.

A reference on all known aspects of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman cults and rituals. It delivers both a sweeping overview and an in-depth investigation from Homeric times (1000 BCE) to late Roman times (AD 400). It also includes illustrated scholarly articles that treat such topics as processions, sacrifices, libations, dedications, music, and dance.

Seeks to familiarize American audiences with Nicolas Lancret(1690-1743), a master of the genre of fete galante, who was a revered painter in his own time, rivalling his contemporaries Antoine Watteau and Francois Boucher, and a favourite of crowned heads across Europe.

Pliny the Younger (C61-112AD) was a Roman official and writer. He has become famous for his two letters to the historian Tacitus, which detail his eye-witness account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. This title presents readers with a translation of Pliny's letters, accompanied by black-and-white engravings by artist Barry Moser.

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.

Featuring works of art from the legendary collections of the J Paul Getty Museum, this volume provides readers with a virtual tour through the Getty Centre - suitable for those who have visited in person and those who have not.

"Fifteen essays address the cultural artifacts of ancient Rome through the lens of memory studies, bringing together such diverse disciplines as art and archeology, history, religion, literature, sociology, media studies, and neuroscience"--Provided by publisher.

The first truly comprehensive analysis of the history, practice, and conservation of painting on canvas.

This important and overdue book examines illuminated manuscripts and other book arts of the Global Middle Ages.