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Fashion in the Middle Ages by Margaret Scott
Category: Fashion | Series: Getty Publications - Ser.
Explore medieval fashions through illuminated manuscripts, from the luxurious attire of royalty to the modest clothes worn by the peasantry to medieval depictions of ancient and biblical garments. Book jacket.
Finding Dora Maar by Brigitte Benkemoun; Jody Gladding
Category: Art and Design | Series: Getty Publications - Ser.
In search of a replacement for his lost Herm s agenda, Brigitte Benkemoun's husband buys a vintage diary on eBay. When it arrives, she opens it and finds inside private notes dating back to 1951--twenty pages of phone numbers and addresses for Balthus, Brassa , Andr Breton, Jean Cocteau, Paul luard, Leo ...Show more
French Silver in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Charissa Bremer-David
Category: Art | Series: Getty Publications - Ser.
The collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French silver at the J. Paul Getty Museum is of exceptional quality and state of preservation. Each piece is remarkable for its beauty, inventive form, skillful execution, illustrious provenance, and the renown of its maker. This volume is the first ...Show more
Hersilia's Sisters - Jacques-Louis David, Women, and the Emergence of Civil Society in Post-Revolution France by Norman Bryson
Category: History | Series: Getty Publications - Ser.
Political and cultural history and the arts combine in this engaging account of 1790s France. In 1799, when the French artist Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) exhibited his Intervention of the Sabines, a history painting featuring the ancient heroine Hersilia, he added portraits of two contemporary women ...Show more
Hippolyte Bayard and the Invention of Photography by Jillian Lerner (Contribution by); Art Kaplan (Contribution by); Anne de Mondenard (Contribution by); Karen Hellman (Editor); Carolyn Peter (Editor); Paul-Louis Roubert (Contribution by); Éléonore Challine (Contribution by); Paul Mpagi Sepuya (Contribution by)
Category: Photography | Series: Getty Publications - Ser.
The first English-language volume about Hippolyte Bayard, one of the inventors of photography who helped transform the burgeoning medium into an art form. Hippolyte Bayard (1801-1887) is often characterized as an underdog in the early history of photography. From the outset, his contribution to the i ...Show more
Mesopotamia: Civilization Begi by POTTS TIMOTHY
Category: Art and Design | Series: Getty Publications - (Yale) Ser.
Mesopotamia, in modern-day Iraq, was home to the remarkable ancient civilizations of Sumer, Akkad, Babylonia, and Assyria. From the rise of the first cities around 3500 BCE, through the mighty empires of Nineveh and Babylon, to the demise of its native culture around 100 CE, Mesopotamia produced some of ...Show more
Noir by Lee Hendrix
Category: Art and Design | Series: Getty Publications - (Yale) Ser.
Due to the technological advances of the nineteenth century, an abundance of black drawing media exploded onto the market. Charcoal, conte crayon, and fabricated black chalks and crayons; fixatives; various papers; and many lifting devices gave rise to an unprecedented amount of experimentation. Indeed, ...Show more
North of Dixie - Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South by Mark Speltz; Deborah Willis (Preface by)
Category: Popular History | Series: Getty Publications - (Yale) Ser.
The history of the civil rights movement is commonly illustrated with well-known photographs from Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma--leaving the visual story of the movement outside the South remaining to be told. In North of Dixie, historian Mark Speltz shines a light past the most iconic photographs o ...Show more
Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide by Isabel Quintero; Zeke Peña (Illustrator)
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Getty Publications - Ser.
Award-winning YA author Quintero and artist Pe-a deliver a symbolic, poetic, and deeply personal profile in the first graphic biography of iconic Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide.
Plato in L.A.: Contemporary Artists` Visions by Donatien Grau
Category: Art and Design | Series: Getty Publications - (Yale) Ser.
No thinker in the West has had a wider and more sustained influence than the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. From philosophy to drama, religion to politics, it is difficult to find a current cultural or social phenomenon that is not in some aspect indebted to the famous philosopher and the Platonic tra ...Show more
Renaissance Secrets - A Lifetime Working with Wall Paintings by Michelangelo, Raphael, and Others at the Vatican by Maurizio De Luca; Jason Cardone (Translator)
Category: Art and Design | Series: Getty Publications - Ser.
Engagingly written and profusely illustrated, this book offers readers a close-up "view from the scaffolding" of some of the greatest Renaissance wall paintings at the Vatican. Beginning in the late 1400s, the greatest artists of Renaissance Italy were summoned to Rome, where they decorated the wall ...Show more
Rodney Smith - A Leap of Faith by Paul Martineau; Rebecca A. Senf (Contribution by); Leslie Smolan (Contribution by); Graydon Carter (Introduction by)
Category: Photography | Series: Getty Publications - Ser.
Elegant, charming, and stunningly beautiful, Rodney Smith's fashion photography is a delightful revelation. "I would hope that I am one of a kind." --Rodney Smith Mystery and manners, romance and fun--the sophisticated compositions and stylish characters in the extraordinary pictures of fashion ...Show more