Böcker i BIBLIOTHECA PAEDIATRICA REF KARGER-serien

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.

Presents an introduction to the use of controlled vocabularies. This book presents readers with a "how-to" guide to building controlled vocabulary tools, and indexing cultural materials with terms and names from controlled vocabularies, and how to use vocabularies in search engines and databases to enhance discovery and retrieval online.

A discussion of the designs by Antonio Asprucci for the redecoration of the Borghese Palace as a semi-public museum. The author shows that the new designs created a unified space for the Count's extensive collection of Greek and Roman antique and "modern" sculpture.

Offers an integrated contextual analysis of artifacts fashioned from a wide variety of luxury materials. This volume address a broad range of luxury goods, such as intaglios, cameos, vessels, and statuettes, providing a full and multifaceted account of luxury in the ancient world. It also explores the ideologies and uses of the luxury arts.

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?

A selection of photographs by young people from Cape Town, who have photographed what they consider to be their city's distinctive landmarks. A short biography and a photograph of each of the contributors is also included.

This children's book takes a tour through the Getty Museum, adjacent gardens, conservation laboratories and other sites at the Getty Center. It features the colourful, humorous characters Milli Ennium, Quincy and their cohorts.

A retelling of Sophocles' tragedy of the fate of Antigone, who defies her uncle and buries her brother. The text is printed on handmade paper and the volume is slip-cased. The original silk-screened illustrations have a classical Greek flavour.

"This volume publishes Yukio Lippit's lecture of the same title, held at the Getty Center on 23 September 2014."

This important and overdue book examines illuminated manuscripts and other book arts of the Global Middle Ages.

A richly illustrated, comprehensive introduction to the visionary artist William Blake.

An exploration of the radical artists who transformed the ways art is conceived, exhibited, and collected, through the Dada, Surrealist, and Fluxus collections of Jean and Leonard Brown.

The autobiography of Jean Paul Getty, American oil executive, multimillionaire and art collector. Getty tells how he amassed his fortune, discusses the prospects of democracy, lists the seven things men should know about women, and recounts conversations at Oxford with the future King of England.

Presents analysis of occult iconography in many of the masterpieces of Western art - from the astrological symbols that decorated churches and illuminated manuscripts, through the work of a range of Renaissance artists, including Bosch, Brueghel, Durer and Caravaggio, to the visionary works of nineteenth-century artists, such as Fuseli and Blake.

Investigates the idea of beauty over time and space. This book offers a chronological account whose conceptual and historical paradigms have been reiterated and contested into the twentieth century. It not only sketches the circumstances that shaped Winckelmann's project but also assesses this scholar's influence on European intellectual life.

Amber has fascinated mankind since the Palaeolithic era. This book examines the myths and legends woven around amber - its employment in magic and medicine, its transport and carving, and its incorporation into jewellery, amulets, and other objects of prestige.

Offers investigation of the material and philosophical aspects of conserving contemporary art. This title gives a comprehensive overview of the many considerations faced by the conservator of modern and contemporary art.

The Middle East played a critical role in the development of photography as a new technology and an art form. Likewise, photography was instrumental in cultivating and maintaining Europe's distinctively Orientalist vision of the Middle East. This book explores the interplay between 19th-century photography and Europe's vision of the Middle East.

Rather than offering a chronological discussion, this book presents early Netherlandish paintings as individual objects that have confronted scholars with countless interpretive challenges. Divided into three parts, it advances the scholarly dialogue about an important period in European art, by assembling scholarly research in the field.

A survey of the Getty Museum's 17th- and 18th-century French textiles. The book includes lists of artists and weavers, date and place of manufacture, and materials and techniques used. Also included is an accompanying commentary.

Archaeological sites world-wide are threatened by different forces. This volume reports on the proceedings of a workshop held to discuss challenges faced by archaeological sites in the Mediterranean and to examine management planning methods that might generate effective conservation strategies.

This comprehensive survey of Etruscan civilization, from its origin in the Villanovan Iron Age in the ninth century B.C. to its absorption by Rome in the first century B.C., combines well-known aspects of the Etruscan world with new discoveries and fresh insights into the role of women in Etruscan society. In addition, the Etruscans are contrasted to the Greeks, whom they often emulated, and to the Romans, who at once admired and disdained them. The result is a compelling and complete picture of a people and a culture. This in-depth examination of Etruria examines how differing access to mineral wealth, trade routes, and agricultural land led to distinct regional variations. Heavily illustrated with ancient Etruscan art and cultural objects, the text is organized both chronologically and thematically, interweaving archaeological evidence, analysis of social structure, descriptions of trade and burial customs, and an examination of pottery and works of art.

The next title in the respected Artist's Materials series offers groundbreaking analysis of Sam Francis's working methods and materials.

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.

Tells the story of the yearly return of the swallows to the Mission San Juan Capistrano through the eyes of a small child, Julian, the bell ringer of the Mission. This book includes the music and lyrics for "La Golondrina", a song about the swallows that the author composed himself.

"Imagination is the name of the game, and Perry plays it with distinction. Eye-catching, mind-bending illustrations."-Booklist

A unique seventeenth-century account of painting as it was practiced, taught, and discussed during a period of extraordinary artistic and intellectual ferment in the Netherlands.

This collection of unique works by 150 Los Angeles graffiti and tattoo artists represents an unprecedented collaboration across the city's diverse artistic landscape.

Carol Armstrong offers an important study of Edgar Degas's work and reputation. Armstrong grapples with contradictory portrayals of Degas as "odd man out" within the modernist canon. She shows how our critical and popular expectations of Degas are overturned and subverted.