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Seeing the Getty Center and Gardens by Getty Publications 9781606064931
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $14.29Filled with dazzling artistic treasures, distinctive flora, and panoramic views, this beautifully illustrated volume is a perfect souvenir for guests of the Getty Center and an enticing introduction... -
The Conservation of Cave 85 at the Mogeo Grottoes, Dunhuang - A Collaborative Project of the Getty Conservation Institute and the Dunhuang Acedemy . Wong 9781606061572
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $86.83This is the definitive account of the ground-breaking conservation project to conserve the cave paintings of the Mogao Grottoes in China. The Mogao Grottoes, a World Heritage Site in northwestern... -
This is the Day - The March on Washington by Leonard Freed 9781606061213
RRP: $50.70Booksplease Price: $41.46This title offers a superb collection of emotionally charged photographs that document a poignant day in American history. "This Is the Day" is a stirring photo-essay documenting the March on... -
Luxus Kenneth Lapatin 9781606064221
RRP: $126.75Booksplease Price: $112.16This elegantly produced book brings the luxury arts of antiquity back into brilliant life. In contrast to other histories of ancient art that typically privilege well-preserved works of ceramics or... -
Don't Let the Beasties Escape This Book! by Julie Berry 9781947440043
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $29.13Young Godfrey and his family toil for the lord and lady of the castle. But when Godfrey stumbles upon an unfinished Book of Beasts, its splendid pictures of animals make him forget his chores. He... -
Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend by Elizabeth King 9781606068397
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $55.03This volume tells the singular story of an uncanny object at the cusp of art and science: a 450-year-old automaton known as “the monk.” The walking, gesticulating figure of a friar, in the collection... -
Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi 9780892369898
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $23.95"Song of the Swallows", which won the Caldecott Medal when it was first published in 1948, was written and illustrated by Leo Politi. It tells the famous story of the yearly return of the swallows to... -
The Nine Letters on Landscape Painting - Written in the Years 1815-1824, With a Letter From Goethe by Way of Introduction by Carl Gustav Carus 9780892366743
Booksplease Price: $64.35Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) - court physician to the King of Saxony - was a naturalist, amateur painter and theoretician of landscape painting whose "Nine Letters on Landscape Painting" is an... -
In Focus: Doris Ulmann - Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum by Judith Keller 9780892363735
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $26.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892363735Author . KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Getty PublicationsPublisher Getty... -
The Conservation of Tapestries and Embroideries - Proceedings of Meetings at the Institut Royal Du Patrimonie Artistique, Brussels, Belgium by . Proceedings 9780892361540
Booksplease Price: $88.78The Conservation of Tapestries and Embroideries represents the work of many conservators, conservation scientists, and curators from museums and tapestry and embroidery conservation workshops in... -
Friedrich Gilly - Essays on Architecture 1796- 1799 by Friedrich Gilly 9780892362813
RRP: $50.70Booksplease Price: $46.27When Friedrich Gilly died in 1800 at the age of 28, his architectural career had spanned less than a decade and construction of his major designs was incomplete. Nevertheless, his ideas so strongly... -
Dosso's Fate - Painting and Court Culture in Renaissance Italy . Ciammitti 9780892365050
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $77.36Arising from the proceedings of two symposia, this text is composed of contributions by scholars who examine the social, intellectual and historical contexts of the work of the Italian Renaissance... -
The Last Days of Pompeii - Decadence, Apocalypse, Ressurrection by Victoria Gardner Coates 9781606061152
Booksplease Price: $26.46It is a fascinating survey of the modern obsession with the destruction of Pompeii as seen through the eyes or artists. Destroyed yet paradoxically preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d... -
Pedro - The Angel of Olvera Street by Leo Politi 9780892369904
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.56This Caldecott Honor book from beloved children's book author Leo Politi, originally published in 1946, is set on Olvera Street, the site of Los Angeles' original Latino settlement, which is still... -
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Fascicule 10 - Athenian Red-Figure Column and Volute Kraters by Despoina Tsiafakis 9781606066010
RRP: $224.25Booksplease Price: $220.82Cataloging some hundred thousand examples of ancient Greek painted pottery held in collections around the world, the authoritative Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (Corpus of Ancient Vases) is the oldest... -
Legion: Life in the Roman Army by Richard Abdy 9781606069189
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $62.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606069189Author Richard AbdyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Getty PublicationsPublisher... -
Y Si... by Sarah Perry 9780892365425
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.26A Spanish-language edition of the title "If...". The book's fanciful illustrations present a world of imaginative creatures and situations. Cats fly, leaves are fish, dogs become mountains, and... -
Wall to Wall: Mural Art Around the World by Mary Ann Fraser 9781947440081
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $31.73People have been drawing on walls since ancient times. They do it to create beauty, to tell a story, to make a statement, or just to say, "I was here." You can find wall art in a remote cave in... -
Daido Moriyama: Quartet by Mark Holborn 9798887120096
RRP: $146.25Booksplease Price: $85.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887120096Author Mark HolbornFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Getty PublicationsPublisher Getty... -
If... - 25th Anniversary Edition by Sarah Perry 9781947440050
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.14Take a fantastical journey through an inspiring world where anything can happen: leaves turn into fish, cats fly with wings, humans have tails, frogs eat rainbows, and dreams become visible. ... -
Eufrasia Burlamacchi by Loretta Vandi 9781606069561
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $58.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606069561Author Loretta VandiFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Getty PublicationsPublisher... -
Chatting with Henri Matisse - The Lost 1941 Interview by Henri Matisse
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $82.89In 1941 the Swiss art critic Pierre Courthion interviewed Henri Matisse while the artist was in bed recovering from a serious operation. It was an extensive interview, seen at the time as a vital... -
Greek Inscriptions by Peter Liddel 9781606069615
Booksplease Price: $37.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606069615Author Peter LiddelFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Getty PublicationsPublisher... -
The Traveling Camera: Lewis Hine and the Fight to End Child Labor by Alexandra Hinrichs
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $29.13Stunning visuals and poetic text combine to tell the inspiring story of Lewis Hine (1874-1940), a teacher and photographer who employed his art as a tool for social reform. Working for the National... -
Artists and Their Books, Books and Their Artists by Marcia Reed 9781606065730
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $71.29Ever innovative and predictably diverse in their physical formats, artists' books occupy a creative space between the familiar four-cornered object and challenging works of art that effectively... -
Buried by Vesuvius - The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum Kenneth Lapatin 9781606065921
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $94.75The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum, the model for the Getty Villa in Malibu, is one of the world's earliest systematically investigated archaeological sites. Buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius... -
The Conservation and Presentation of Mosaics: At What Cost? - Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the Intl Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics by Jeanne Marie Teutonico 9781606065334
Booksplease Price: $164.31In recent years, funding for the conservation of cultural heritage has become increasingly difficult to obtain, and this trend shows no sign of changing significantly in the foreseeable future. The... -
Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun by Kaz Rowe 9781947440074
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $30.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorKaz Rowe is a Chicago-based cartoonist, illustrator, and YouTuber, and was formerly located in Los Angeles... -
Gesina Ter Borch by Adam Eaker 9781606069462
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $58.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606069462Author Adam EakerFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Getty PublicationsPublisher Getty... -
Maria Sibylla Merian - Artist, Scientist, Adventurer by Sarah B. Pomeroy 9781947440012
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $33.01In 1660, at the age of thirteen, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) began her study of butterfly metamorphosis-years before any other scientist published an accurate description of the process. Later,... -
A Looking at Fashion: A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques Debra.N Mancoff 9781606068991
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.66Whether in art or life, fashion makes a statement. It gives form to the temper of the times and the motives of the moment, charting shifts in society, status, technology, and economy. Fashion is... -
Clara Peeters by Alejandro Vergara-Sharp 9781606069509
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $51.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606069509Author Alejandro Vergara-SharpFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Getty... -
Modern Metals in Cultural Heritage - Understanding and Characterization Virginia Costa 9781606066058
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $83.71The proliferation of new metals-such as stainless steels, aluminium alloys and metallic coatings-in modern and contemporary art and architecture has made the need for professionals who can address... -
Icons of Style - A Century of Fashion Photography Paul Martineau 9781606065587
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $96.31In 1911 the French couturier Paul Poiret challenged Edward Steichen to create the first artistic, rather than merely documentary, fashion photographs, a moment that is now considered to be a turning... -
Uta Barth: Peripheral Vision 9781606068052
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $70.90Los Angeles-based contemporary artist Uta Barth (b. 1958) has spent her decades-long career exploring the complexities and limits of human and mechanical vision. At first, her photographs appear to... -
On Modern Beauty - Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin, and Cezanne by Richard R. Brettell 9781606066065
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.33As the discipline of art history has moved away from connoisseurship, the notion of beauty has become increasingly problematic. Both culturally and personally subjective, the term is difficult to... -
Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape by Sam Nakahira 9781947440098
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $30.32Brave, unconventional, and determined, Ruth Asawa let nothing stop her from living a life intertwined with art Renowned for her innovative wire sculptures, Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa... -
Michaelina Wautier by Katlijne Van Der Stighelen 9798887120171
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $55.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887120171Author Katlijne Van Der StighelenFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Getty... -
Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta - A Sixteenth-Century Calligraphic Manuscript Inscribed by Georg Bocskay and Illuminated by Joris Joefnagel by Lee Hendrix 9781606066584
RRP: $146.25Booksplease Price: $92.20Now back in print, "the ultimate book-lover's gift book" (Los Angeles Times) In 1561-62 the master calligrapher Georg Bocskay (died 1575), imperial secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I,... -
Sofonisba Anguissola by Cecilia Gamberini 9781606069073
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $55.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606069073Author Cecilia GamberiniFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Getty PublicationsPublisher...