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Julius Schulman's Los Angeles by Christopher James Alexander
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.71This title presents a pictorial history of the "City of the Future" throughout the 20th century. The celebrated architectural photographer Julius Shulman (1910-2009) is one of the few image makers to... -
Jean Paul Riopelle - The Artist's Materials . Corbeil 9781606060865
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $39.65This is the first full-length English language study of one of the most important Canadian artists of the 20th century. Jean Paul Riopelle (1923-2002) was one of the most important Canadian artists... -
My Monster Notebook by Ed Harris 9781606060506
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.47In 2005, the Getty published Greece! Rome! Monsters!, a handy guide to the best-known monsters from Greek and Roman mythology. Now comes My Monster Notebook, which presents yet more of these creepy... -
In Focus: William Henry Fox Talbot - Photographs From the J.Paul Getty Museum by Larry J. Schaaf 9780892366606
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.78William Henry Fox Talbot - a scientist, mathematician, author and artist - is credited with being the inventor of photography as we know it. In mid-1834 he began to experiment with light-sensitive... -
Faces of Power and Piety by Erik Inglis
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.06'Faces of Power and Piety' is the second in the Medieval Imagination series of small, affordable books that draw on manuscript illuminations in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the... -
Discourse on Sacred and Profane Images . Paleotti 9781606061169
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $56.41This is the first English translation of Gabriele Paleotti's 16th century treatise on the role of art in society. In the wake of the Counter-Reformation, Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti, the archbishop of... -
In Focus: Eugene Etget - Photographs From the J.Paul Getty Museum by Eugene Atget 9780892366019
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.83Parisian photographer Eugene Atget (1857-1927) set out to capture those commonplace features that were gradually disappearing from the city he loved. Only towards the end of his 30-year career was... -
Cave Temples of Mogao at Dunhuang Roderick Whitfield 9781606064450
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $30.61This book offers a revised and expanded look at a world-renowned artistic treasure and its conversation. The Mogao grottoes in China, situated near the town of Dunhuang on the fabled Silk Road,... -
In Focus: Man Ray – Photographs from the J.Paul Getty Museum by . Ware 9780892365111
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.83This is a collection of photographs by avant-garde artist and photographer Man Ray, from the John Paul Getty Museum. The photographs date from 1910 to the 1940s, and each image is provided with a... -
The Last Days of Pompeii - Decadence, Apocalypse, Ressurrection by Victoria Gardner Coates 9781606061152
Booksplease Price: $17.75It 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... -
Classical Love Poetry by Jonathan Williams 9780892367863
RRP: $28.32Booksplease Price: $19.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892367863Author Jonathan WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint
Principles of Art History Heinrich Wolfflin 9781606064528
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $35.45This book features a crystalline new translation of one of art history's most influential works-published on its one-hundredth anniversary. Principles of Art History by Heinrich Wolfflin (1864-1945),...
Italian Illuminated Manuscripts by Thomas Kren 9781606064368
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.90This is a stunning tour through eight centuries of manuscript illumination. Known for their stunning displays of artistry and technique, Italian illuminated manuscripts have long been coveted by...
Therese Makes a Tapestry by Alexandra Hinrichs 9781606064733
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.67Step back in time to seventeenth-century Paris with Therese, a talented young girl who lives and works at the Gobelins Manufactory, where Europe's greatest artisans make tapestries and luxury objects...
In Focus: Andre Kertesz - Photographs From the J.Paul Getty Museum by Weston J. Naef 9780892362905
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892362905Author . NaefFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint
Gardens of the Renaissance . Kenne 9781606061435
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.06This is a fascinating volume that uses illustrated manuscripts to gain a unique insight into the gardens of the Renaissance. Whether part of a grand villa or an extension of a common kitchen, gardens...
Willem de Kooning - The Artist's Materials . Lake 9781606060216
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $39.65This is the first systematic and truly methodical study of de Kooning's idiosyncratic working methods and use of materials. This in-depth study of the paintings of Willem de Kooning (1904-1997),...
Building the Medieval World by Christine Sciacca 9781606060063
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.74Some of the great and lasting achievements of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are the architectural wonders of soaring cathedrals, grand castles and palaces. While many of these edifices survive,...
The Spitz Master - A Parisian Book of Hours . Clark 9780892367122
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.06The Spitz book of hours is one of the finest French manuscripts in the collections of the Getty Museum. It is also one of the most original and inventive manuscripts painted in the International...
Seeing the Getty Center and Gardens by Getty Publications 9781606064962
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.89Filled 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...
Display and Art History - The Dusseldorf Gallery and its Catalogue Thomas W. Gaehtgens 9781606060926
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.06This is a superbly illustrated exploration of the first modern art catalogue, its creation and its legacy. This richly illustrated book examines the making of the first modern catalogue - La galerie...
Lucio Fontana - The Artist's Materials . Gottschaller 9781606061145
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $50.14This is the first English language technical study of one of the most important Italian artists of the post-WWII period. Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) is widely regarded as one of the most influential...
Miraculous Bouquets - Flower and Fruit Paintings by Jan Van Huysum by Anne T. Woollett 9781606060902
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.76Precisely rendered to dazzle the eye with their botanical accuracy, the sumptuous arrays of fruit and flowers by Dutch painter Jan van Huysum (1682-1749) were among the most avidly collected...
Conundrum - Puzzles in the Grotesques Tapestry Series Charissa Bremer-David 9781606064535
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.33The whimsical imagery of four tapestries in the permanent collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum and currently on display at the Getty Center is perplexing. Created in France at the Beauvais...
Seeing the Getty Center and Gardens by Getty Publications 9781606064917
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.49Featuring stunning color photographs throughout, this edition takes readers on a visual tour through Los Angeles's iconic Getty Center, from the monumental modernist architecture of Richard Meier to...
The First Modern Museums of Art - The Birth of an Institution in 18th- and Early - 19th Century Europe Carole Paul 9781606061206
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $51.17It is a comelling account of the origins of the world's most important museums. In the 18th and early 19th centuries the first modern, public museums of art appeared throughout Europe, setting a...
Seeing Venice - Bellotto's Grand Canal by Mark Doty 9780892366583
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.91Bernardo Bellotto's magnificent View of the Grand Canal provides a rich visual record of life in eighteenth-century Venice. This painting one of the most popular in the Getty Museum is so sweeping in...
The J.Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Antiquities Collection - Revised Edition . Lapatin 9780892369980
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.45This is a stunningly illustrated examination of nearly two-hundred of the most important pieces in the J. Paul Getty Museum's Antiquities Collection. The antiquities collection at the J. Paul Getty...
Felice Beato - A Photographer on the Easter Road by Anne Lacoste 9781606060353
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.72This is a survey of one of the major but least recognised photographers of the 19thC. In recent years Felice Beato (1832-1909) has come to be recognised as one of the major photographers of the...
An ABC of What Art Can Be by Meher McArthur 9780892369997
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.01Whether it's weaving or making pottery or working on your computer or turning junk into something unexpected and wonderful, 'An ABC of What Art Can Be' is an invitation to look around and think...
Don't Let the Beasties Escape This Book! by Julie Berry 9781947440043
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.29Young 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...
Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi 9780892369898
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.09"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...
Looking at European Ceramics by David Cohen 9780892362165
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892362165Author David CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 92Imprint
Joys of Collecting by J. Paul Getty
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.39This title offers an insightful and revealing personal account of one man's consuming passion for collecting. In 1965, shortly after founding his namesake museum in Malibu, California, J. Paul Getty...
Ancient Greece: Art, Architecture, and History by Marina Belozerskaya 9780892366958
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $18.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892366958Author Marina BelozerskayaFormat PaperbackImprint
Seeing the Getty Center and Gardens by Getty Publications 9781606064931
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.49Filled 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...
In Focus: Manuel Alvarez Bravo - Photographs From the J.Paul Getty Museum by Manuel Alvarez Bravo 9780892366255
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.74Manuel Alvarez Bravo, who celebrates his 100th birthday in 2002, is Mexico's most famous photographer. In eight decades as a photographer, he interacted with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Sergei...
In Focus: Doris Ulmann - Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum by Judith Keller 9780892363735
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892363735Author . KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint
Friedrich Gilly - Essays on Architecture 1796- 1799 by Friedrich Gilly 9780892362813
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $30.61When 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...
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece by Sean Sheehan 9780892366675
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $21.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892366675Author Sean SheehanFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint