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623,95 kr. This volume explores the conservation and presentation of dress in museums and beyond as a complex, collaborative process.
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453,95 kr. Based on the revised German edition of Max Schweidler's "Die Instandetzung von Kupferstichen, Zeichnungen, Buchern usw" - originally published in 1934 - this book includes a glossary, and an illustrated appendix. It complements Schweidler's text in aiding curators, conservators, and collectors on the conservation and restoration of works on paper.
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568,95 kr. Polychrome sculpture has come to be widely regarded as a watershed text on the making and meaning of European medieval and Baroque painted wood sculpture. The author played a pioneering role in combining the rigorous scientific analysis of materials with a fuller understanding of form and function.
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308,95 kr. Offers an illustrated review of the work of photographer Jo Ann Callis. This volume attests to Callis' singular vision of the delicate boundary between the world within and the world without.
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193,95 kr. In August 1576, in the midst of an outbreak of the plague, the Spanish Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagun and 22 indigenous artists locked themselves inside the school of Santa Cruz de Tlaltelolco in Mexico City with a mission: to create the first illustrated encyclopedia in the New World. This title deals with this manuscript.
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198,95 kr. What is a pyxis? Who was the Amasis Painter? How did Greek vases get their distinctive black and orange colours? This volume offers definitions and descriptions of these and many other Greek vase shapes, painters and techniques encountered in museum exhibitions and publications.
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253,95 kr. An illustrated look at the evolution of the photographic work of Ed Ruscha - the quintessential Los Angeles artist. It features 38 Ruscha plates and an essay that traces the evolution of the artist's thinking about his photographs initially as the means to end, and eventually as works of art in and of themselves.
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623,95 kr. Herb Ritts (1952-2002) was a Los Angeles-based photographer who established an international reputation for distinctive images of fashion models, nudes, and celebrity portraits. This book traces the life and career of the iconic photographer through a selection of photographs and two insightful essays.
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678,95 kr. A collection of critically important readings on the concepts and practices of textile conservation. It intends to promote critical thinking about the concepts and practices of textile conservation and to encourage engagement with issues.
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508,95 kr. An exploration of Greek theatre as seen through its many depictions in classical art. It addresses the vibrant imprint that ancient Greek tragedy and comedy left on the visual arts of classical Greece.
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738,95 kr. Originally coined by the Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg in 1930, the term concrete denotes abstract painting with no reference to external reality. Presenting new scholarship, this publication is the first comprehensive study of the Concrete art movement in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay from the 1940s to the 1960s.
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678,95 kr. Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) never crossed the Atlantic himself, but his impact in colonial Latin America was profound. This volume excavates his unequaled reception in the New World in the form of prints made after his works, arguing that colonial artists forged new frameworks for artistic creativity by conforming to European printed designs
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678,95 kr. This volume examines the unprecedented growth of several cities in Latin America from 1830 to 1930, observing how sociopolitical changes and upheavals created the conditions for the birth of the metropolis.
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368,95 kr. A richly illustrated, comprehensive introduction to the visionary artist William Blake.
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513,95 kr. Featuring rare photographs and negatives alongside iconic images from the formative years of photography in the United States, "Paper Promises: Early American Photography" is the companion volume to the first exhibition exclusively focused on the display and study of early American photography on paper.
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563,95 kr. Celebrated photographer Robert Mapplethorpe challenged the limits of censorship and conformity, combining technical and formal mastery with unexpected, often provocative content that secured his place in history.
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134,95 kr. The Getty Villa in Malibu includes the only museum in the United States devoted solely to classical antiquities. This guide describes the history of the site and J Paul Getty's decision to house his growing collections in a structure based on an ancient Roman villa. It concludes with a description of the installation of the collections.
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788,95 kr. Features the golden age of French printmaking. This catalogue features more than one hundred prints from the Getty Research Institute and the Bibliotheque nationale de France in Paris, whose print collection Louis XIV established in 1667. It studies how prints were collected and considers their reception in the ensuing centuries.
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1.233,95 kr. A reference on all known aspects of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman cults and rituals encompassing the period from 1000 BC to AD 400. It features illustrated articles that address topics such as processions, sacrifices, libation, purification, consecration/foundation rites, heroization and apotheosis, dance, music, divination, prayer, and magic.
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229,95 kr. Highlights images of architecture from Greek temples to Gothic cathedrals to modern-day skyscrapers. This title spans the history of the medium and includes works in a variety of photographic processes by such distinguished practitioners as Gustave Le Gray, Roger Fenton, Eugene Atget, Walker Evans, Ed Ruscha, Lewis Baltz and Michael Wesely.
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663,95 kr. Style, Semper believed, should be governed by historical function, cultural affinities, creative free will, and the innate properties of each medium. He tried to turn 19th century artistic discussion away from historicism, aestheticism and materialism.
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486,95 kr. The internationally renowned documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark took on the extraordinary challenge of working with the Polaroid 20X24 Land camera. This title looks at a modern rite of passage by the acclaimed documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark.
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678,95 kr. Brings together a collection of works relating to the biodeterioration and conservation of art, architecture, and archaeological sites around the world. This book includes such topics as mechanism of biodeterioration, and correlation between biodeterioration and environment. It discusses solutions for the prevention and control of deterioration.
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343,95 kr. Published in 1765, Giovanni Battista Piranesi's "Osservazioni" is an impassioned defence of the superiority of Roman architectural "invention" over the "beautiful and noble simplicity" of Ancient Greece. This is an English translation of Piranesi's three-part polemical work.
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198,95 kr. It is Paris in the 1400s. A young girl named Marguerite delights in assisting her father, Jacques, in his craft: illuminating manuscripts for the nobility of France. His current commission is a splendid book of hours for his patron, Lady Isabelle, but will he be able to finish it in time for Lady Isabelle's name day?
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563,95 kr. The Mogao Grottoes, a World Heritage Site in northwestern China, are located along the ancient caravan routes, collectively known as the Silk Road, that once linked China with the West. This book gives an account of a ground-breaking conservation project to conserve the cave paintings of the Mogao Grottoes in China.
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253,95 kr. Offers a visual history of the depiction of illness and healing in Western culture, ranging from Egyptian wall carvings to 20th century artists.
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343,95 kr. Beginning in the seventeenth century, many of Europe's greatest writers and artists became embroiled in a debate that centered on the priority of paintings or sculpture, touch or sight, colour or design, ancient or modern. This title lets us eavesdrop on a contentious topic that preoccupied European intellectuals for three hundred years.
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398,95 kr. Edward Henry Weston (1886-1958) first started taking photographs at the age of sixteen with a camera given to him by his father. Over the next five decades, he would come to be regarded by his peers as one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century. This volume is a collection of his photographic studies of the nude form.
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198,95 kr. Parisian photographer Eugene Atget (1857-1927) set out to capture those commonplace features that were gradually disappearing from the city he loved. This volume contains 50 Atget works with comprehensive captions and an edited colloquium on his life and work by seven scholars.
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- 198,95 kr.