"This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring more than three hundred works of art, many rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century. Presenting spectacular works from recent excavations in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico, th ..."
"Los Angeles–based contemporary artist Ed Ruscha is celebrated for his paintings, drawings, prints, and artist’s books, receiving widespread critical acclaim for more than half a century. Capturing the quintessential Los Angeles experience with its balance of the banal and the beautiful, his photobooks of the 1960s—such as Twentysix Gasoline Stations, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Some Los Angeles Apartments, and Thirtyfour Parking ..."
"The St. Albans Psalter is one of the most important, famous, and puzzling books produced in twelfth-century England. It was probably created between 1120 and 1140 at St. Albans Abbey, located on the site where Alban, England s first saint, was martyred. The manuscript s powerfully drawn figures and saturated colors are distinct from those in previous Anglo-Saxon painting and signal the arrival of the Romanesque style of illumination in ..."
"Peter Paul Rubens’s fascinating depiction of a man wearing Korean costume of around 1617, in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, has been considered noteworthy since it was made. Published to accompany an exhibition of Rubens’s Man in Korean Costume at the J. Paul Getty Museum from March 5 to June 9, 2013, Looking East: Rubens’s Encounter with Asia explores the various facets of Rubens’s compelling drawing of this Asian man that ..."
"The discovery of magnificent ancient bronze sculptures that spent millennia on the seabed and emerged unscathed is just one factor to have fed the continued fascination with this prized artistic medium. This sumptuous book examines bronze s earliest beginnings in North Africa, the Middle East, and China, celebrating its durability and variability. Leading authorities chart the virtuosity of artists working with bronze in ancient Greece ..."
"Composed more than a millennium ago, the Shahnameh -- the great royal book of the Persian court -- is a pillar of Persian literature and one of the world's unchallenged masterpieces. Recounting the history of the Persian people from its mythic origins down to the Islamic conquest in the seventh century, the Shahnameh is the stirring and beautifully textured story of a proud civilization. But the Shahnameh (or, literally, the "Book of Ki ..."
Mesopotamia(1st Edition) Civilization Begins by Ariane Thomas, TimothyPotts, Potts Thomas Hardcover, 236 Pages, Published 2020 by J. Paul Getty Museum ISBN-13: 978-1-60606-649-2, ISBN: 1-60606-649-8
"A rich and vivid overview of ancient Mesopotamia, the “cradle of civilization.” Ancient Mesopotamia, a region that mainly corresponds to modern-day Iraq, has a record of human activity dating back nearly fifteen thousand years. Writing was invented in Mesopotamia at the end of the fourth millennium BCE, and urbanization reached new heights of social, economic, and architectural sophistication there. A cultural melting pot, Mesopotamia w ..."
"This abundantly illustrated volume explores the genesis and flourishing of Uruk, the first known metropolis in the history of humankind. More than one hundred years ago, discoveries from a German archaeological dig at Uruk, roughly two hundred miles south of present-day Baghdad, sent shock waves through the scholarly world. Founded at the end of the fifth millennium BCE, Uruk was the main force for urbanization in what has come to be ..."
Beyond the Nile(1st Edition) Egypt and the Classical World by Sara E. Cole, Jeffrey Spier, TimothyPotts Hardcover, 360 Pages, Published 2018 by J. Paul Getty Museum ISBN-13: 978-1-60606-551-8, ISBN: 1-60606-551-3
"From about 2000 BCE onward, Egypt served as an important nexus for cultural exchange in the eastern Mediterranean, importing and exporting not just wares but also new artistic techniques and styles. Egyptian, Greek, and Roman craftsmen imitated one another’s work, creating cultural and artistic hybrids that transcended a single tradition. Yet in spite of the remarkable artistic production that resulted from these interchanges, the compl ..."
"The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, has been called "America's best small museum." Since its opening in 1972, the Museum has won acclaim for its classic modern building designed by American architect Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) and for a renowned collection of masterpieces ranging from ancient to modern times. This beautifully produced, comprehensive, and up-to-date handbook of the Museum's collection presents over 240 works, in ..."
"This book is a catalogue of a major traveling exhibition of 81 masterpieces from the Walter-Guillaume collection. It begins with a thorough history of the collection and then goes into details of the exhibited paintings which are beautifully reproduced in full page color plates."
"Christopher Coope. Appendix 3 central point within ... assertion is inconsistent
with Dr Whewell's own statement of the fundamental principle of classification,
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"This workbook, written by four University of Leeds professors, covers 18 topics central to Wittgenstein's thought. Provides a list of questions for each topic with relevant references to the texts so the student can ferret out the answers. 52 pages."
Post-modernisms Origins, Consequences, Reconsiderations by Claudio Veliz, TimothyPotts Paperback, Published 2002 by Boston University ISBN-13: 978-0-87270-127-4, ISBN: 0-87270-127-1
"The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, has been called »America's best small museum.« Since its opening in 1972, the Museum has won acclaim for its classic modern building designed by American architect Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) and for a renowned collection of masterpieces ranging from ancient to modern times. This beautifully produced, comprehensive, and up-to-date handbook of the Museum's collection presents over 240 works, inc ..."
"This book is a revised and fully updated guide to major objects in the collections at the Getty. This gorgeous new edition of The J Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collection features over 350 of the museum's most beloved objects. Updated to include numerous exciting new acquisitions-from the Gillion manuscript to Gauguin's Arii Matamoe (The Royal End), from J M W Turner's Modern Rome to Robert Mapplethorpe's famous Self Portrait-the ..."