Looking at European Ceramics. A guide to technical terms

Hess, Catherine

Cohen, David Harris

Reference

J.paul Getty Museum

Bound in the publisher's original black cloth over boards, spine stamped in gilt. Light rubbing to edges and extremities of dust jacket. Profusely illustrated throughout with in full-color.

French furniture makers: The art of the ébéniste from Louis XIV to the revolution

Arts & Photography

Pradère, Alexandre

Photography & Video

Contains three major databases including transcriptions of inventories and other archival documents from France. Italy, Netherlands, and Spain, from the mid-sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century: transcriptions of sale catalogs from Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Netherlands, and Scandinavia from the mid-seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century; and lists of paintings and their provenance from major American and British museums The Provenance Index is produced by the Getty Research Institute with the collaboration of institutions and individuals in the United States and Europe. Visit piweb.getty.edu for free online access.

The Orsini Inventories

Rubsamen, Gisela

Skopas in Malibu: The head of Achilles from Tegea and other sculptures by Skopas in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Stewart, Andrew

Master drawings from the Woodner Collection

Goldner, George R.

xii + 128 pp. &amp; 49 plates, folio.

Roman Funerary Sculpture: Catalogue of the Collections, The J. Paul Getty Museum

Koch, Guntram

History & Criticism

Slendid illustrations of Cycladic marble figures in American collections are featured in this book, including two dozen complete and fragmentary pieces in the Getty Museum. The origin and development of the sculptures as well as their patronage and manufacture are examined.

Early Cycladic Sculpture: An Introduction

Getz-Preziosi, Pat

This series supports scholarship in the field of art education and disseminates ideas about the theory and practice of discipline-based art education.

The Role of Imagery in Learning (Occasional Paper Series)

Broudy, Harry

Study & Teaching

What is the nature of the aesthetic experience? Is it the same for everyone? It is possible to facilitate its occurrence? This book focuses on the psychology of the aesthetic experience and on the perception and understanding of art, suggesting ways to raise levels of visual literacy and enhance artistic enjoyment. The findings will be of importance not only to museum professionals and art educators, but also to psychologists and those interested in the nature of the aesthetic experience.

The Art of Seeing: An Interpretation of the Aesthetic Encounter

Politics & Social Sciences

Csíkszentmihályi, Mihály

Robinson, Rick E.

Philosophy

This book reproduces every image in an album assembled by Sir David Brewster, an early practitioner of photography at the dawn of the medium. The photographs are some of the earliest ever made, with images by Hill and Adamson, Talbot, Brewster, and others. Text by Graham Smith. 172 pages; 181 color reproductions; 8.75 x 11.25 inches. From an edition limited to 3000 copies. Bibliography, index.

Disciples of Light: Photographs in the Brewster Album

Smith, Graham

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