Fall 2001
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EXHIBITIONS AT THE GETTY CENTER
All exhibitions located in the J. Paul Getty Museum unless otherwise
indicated.
New Exhibitions Opening Fall 2001
The Armenian Gospels of Gladzor
September 11-December 2, 2001
This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see more than 60 unbound
pages of the Gladzor Gospels, a masterpiece of 14th-century Armenian
illumination. It also introduces the manuscript's illuminators,
and defines its place within Western European, Byzantine, and Islamic
artistic traditions. The exhibition focuses on the special Armenian
view of Christ's life expressed in the manuscript's miniatures.
The manuscript is on loan from the Department of Special Collections,
Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA, to celebrate the 1,700th
anniversary of the establishment of the Armenian Church. Press
Release
Posing for Posterity: Portrait Drawings from the Collection
October 30, 2001-January 20, 2002
This exhibition showcases the breadth of the Museum's drawings collection
with 30 portraits from throughout Europe spanning the Renaissance
through the 19th century. The installation includes preparatory
drawings for large-scale portraits, including Ingres' studies for
Madame Moitessier, and features finished portrait drawings
meant as independent works of art. Valued since the 16th century
for their intimacy and portability, these portraits demonstrate
the continuous challenge of and fascination with the presentation
of the self, for both artist and subject.
Special Exhibition
Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen
November 13, 2001-February 3, 2002
Through nearly 400 objects from the 17th century to the present,
Devices of Wonder explores our long and playful entanglement
with the magical technologies and artful instruments that we have
placed between our eyes and the world. Centuries before the advent
of cyberspace, humans created a host of gadgets to enhance visual
perception. Mirrors, microscopes, magic lanterns, automata, dioramas,
panoramas, perspective theaters, and metamorphic toys have all expanded
human perception at different times, amplifying reality into more
vivid virtual events. Devices of Wonder draws from the collections
of the Getty Research Institute, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and lenders
worldwide to bring together several hundred of these beautiful and
bizarre ancestors of our modern museums, cinema, cyborgs, fiber
optics, and computers. Several works by contemporary artists such
as Lucas Samaras, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall, Tiffany Holmes, and
James Turrell resonate with the complex lineage of our seductive
new technologies. This exhibition was organized by the Getty Research
Institute. Press
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Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Optical Parables
November 13, 2001-February 17, 2002
Long considered one of the great masters of 20th-century photography,
Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo (b. 1902) blends an acute
social consciousness with a poetic and often enigmatically modern
sensibility. His work came into its own during the 1930s, following
the social and political turmoil of Mexico's 10-year Revolution.
It contains both Surrealist undertones and a magical documentary
reality. In the eight decades since the end of the Revolution, Alvarez
Bravo has continued to make photographs that lend artistic and social
insight to the complexities of modern Mexican culture. Selected
from the Getty Museum's own holdings of rare photographs and from
the collection of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, this exhibition
traces Alvarez Bravo's evolution as an artist, from his early Pictorialist-inspired
beginnings to his refined formalist style, and on to his later,
emotion-driven imagery. This exhibition coincides with Alvarez Bravo's
100th birthday on February 4, 2002. Press
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Continuing Exhibitions and Installations
at the Getty Center
Work and Play: Everyday Life in Drawings, 1520-1820
July 31-October 14, 2001
From the Renaissance onward, artists were encouraged not only to
depict the supernatural realms of the Bible and classical mythology,
but also to use everyday life as a source of inspiration. This yielded
a vast new fund of subjects, drawn primarily from the major forces
governing the rhythm of human existence: work and leisure. This
exhibition explores these themes in drawings from the Renaissance
through the early 19th century, showing how artists cast an ever
more intense look at the vibrancy of the surrounding world. Press
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The American Tradition & Walker Evans: Photographs from the Getty
Collection
July 10-October 28, 2001
The quest to visually identify the unique character of all things
American began in the middle of the 19th century, not long after
photography's invention. Seventy-five years later Walker Evans continued
this tradition, by defining the subject so skillfully that many
other photographers and artists were influenced by his work. Evans
was not the first photographer to capture the particular, sometimes
peculiar, nature of American culture. This exhibition illuminates
how photographers working before and around Evans captured and defined
quintessentially American subjects. In addition to 35 Evans photographs,
this exhibition includes approximately 75 works ranging from photographers
such as the Langenheim brothers of Philadelphia, Carleton Watkins
of San Francisco, and Adam Clark Vroman of Pasadena to the classic
photographers of the early 1900s including Alfred Stieglitz, Lewis
Hine, Paul Strand, and Dorothea Lange. Along with Evans, these photographers'
images suggest a consistency in representing American visual culture
and are the foundation for the American photographic tradition.
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A Royal Menagerie: Porcelain Animals from Dresden
Ongoing
As part of an ongoing and mutually beneficial partnership between
the Getty and the State Art Collections of Dresden, Germany, the
Dresden Porcelain Collection is lending fourteen large Meissen porcelain
animals that were executed between 1730 and 1735 for Frederick-Augustus
I, Elector of Saxony, known as "Augustus the Strong" (1679-1733).
The commission for these large porcelain sculptures was highly important
for the young Meissen porcelain manufactory. The size of the figures
presented great difficulties in making and firing the porcelain,
and their mere completion in most cases was extraordinary. These
were the creations of two men with remarkably distinct artistic
personalities, the court sculptor Johann Gottlieb Kirchner and Johann
Joachim Kaendler. Rarely has such a large group of these figures
been loaned outside Germany.
Also on loan are three paintings from Dresden's New Master's Gallery
(Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister) by German Romantic artists Ernst
Ferdinand Oehme, Carl Gustav Caru and Caspar David Friedrich. These
haunting landscapes join the Getty's own painting by Friedrich,
A Walk at Dusk, and enrich the Museum's representation of
the German Romantic spirit. The Friedrich is on view through May
13, 2001; the Oehme and Carus through January 2002.
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Statue of an Emperor: A Conservation Partnership
Ongoing
This exhibition features the conservation of a statue of the Roman
emperor Marcus Aurelius, who ruled the Roman Empire from A.D. 161
to 180. The statue belongs to the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, and
the conservation was a collaboration between the Pergamon and the
Getty Museum. Composed of approximately 40 fragments of four different
types of marble, some original, others carved during different restoration
campaigns of the 18th and 19th centuries, the statue was in danger
of collapsing because the joints between the fragments had loosened
over time. The conservators took the statue completely apart and
reassembled it. Video segments show this process as it took place
in the conservation laboratories of the Getty Museum. The exhibition
highlights changes in restoration and conservation practices that
have occurred between the 18th and 21st centuries. Press
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Ancient Art from the Permanent Collection
Ongoing
Featuring works dating from 2500 B.C. to the 6th century A.D., this
installation highlights Greek and Roman antiquities from the Museum's
collection. Included are a 5th-century B.C. limestone-and-marble
statue of a goddess believed to be Aphrodite; a rare, early Cycladic
harpist dating to 2500 B.C; and the Lansdowne Herakles, which was
one of J. Paul Getty's favorite works. The exhibition also features
numerous works from the Fleischman collection acquired by the Museum
in 1996, including a magnificent bronze cauldron with a grinning
satyr and a spectacular ensemble of jewelry worn by a Greek woman
more than 2,000 years ago.
Future Exhibitions through September 2002
Artful Reading in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
December 18, 2001-March 10, 2002
In the Middle Ages, as now, reading opened worlds of information,
entertainment, and inspiration. The concept of books, the texts
that were read, and the conditions for reading them, however, were
vastly different. This exhibition turns to 15 Western European manuscripts
from the Museum's collection that date from the 11th to the 16th
century, as well as a papyrus roll, three early printed books, and
a photograph by Walker Evans, to explore the importance of the written
word, learning and literacy, and the practice of reading aloud before
religious communities and princely courts. In addition to examining
both the symbolism of books and reading in the Middle Ages, this
exhibition charts the major technological changes that have influenced
the way the written word has been communicated over time.
Naples and Vesuvius on the Grand Tour
December 21, 2001-March 24, 2002
At the Getty Research Institute Gallery
Naples and Vesuvius on the Grand Tour highlights Getty permanent collections
along with two related exhibitions at the J. Paul Getty Museum:
Rome on the Grand Tour, which focuses on aristocratic travelers
in 18th-century Rome, and Drawing Italy in the Age of the Grand
Tour, which examines Italian landscape views. Naples and Vesuvius
on the Grand Tour
explores Naples as a tourist destination during the period that
Sir William Hamilton served as British ambassador to Naples, 1764
to 1799. A passionate collector of art and antiquities, Hamilton
was a knowledgeable guide and genteel host to visitors on the Grand
Tour. For 18th-century travelers, Naples was a mythic place dominated
by the powerful presence of Mount Vesuvius. The volcano and ruins
made Naples a different exotic locale after visits to Rome, typically
the main destination. Hamilton's writings and commissions to artists
contributed to a group of innovative publications designed for travelers
and collectors. He also commissioned prints and maps, and published
illustrated volumes on vase collections and the volcanic landscape
of Naples, all of which are housed in Getty collections. A number
of rare books and prints on Naples, Herculaneum, and Pompeii will
also be in the exhibition.
Rome on the Grand Tour
January 8-August 11, 2002
In the 18th century the Grand Tour--a journey across Northern Europe
to Italy and the center of the classical past--formed an important
way for eminent, young British travelers to acquire a canon of taste,
noble ideas, and moral virtue. Featuring new acquisitions by the
Getty Museum and Research Institute, Rome on the Grand Tour
presents the Eternal City as a preeminent destination for the British
aristocrat. Gathering together paintings, pastels, drawings, sculpture,
artists' sketchbooks, antiquities, books, and prints, this exhibition
captures the diversity of the Grand Tour experience and portrays
the preparation, engagement, and memory intrinsic to the journey.
Presenting both high art and cultural memorabilia, it includes printed
materials that promoted and guided the journey, portraits, souvenir
city views, and sculptural reproductions. It also features objects
reflecting the serious study of antiques, which ultimately transcended
the age of the Grand Tour and gave birth to Neoclassicism. Rome
On The Grand Tour is presented as part of a suite of related
exhibitions at the Museum and the Getty Research Institute Gallery
respectively: Drawing Italy in the Age of the Grand Tour,
which examines Italian landscape views, and Naples and Vesuvius on the Grand Tour,
which explores Naples as a tourist destination during the period
that Sir William Hamilton served as British ambassador to Naples.
Drawing Italy in the Age of the Grand Tour
February 5-May 12, 2002
The veduta, or expansive view, reached its peak as a genre
in Italy during the age of the Grand Tour. Throughout the 1700s,
travelers flocked to the Italian provinces in search of inspiration,
enlightenment, discovery, and adventure. They encouraged the production
of portable visual records of the country in the form of drawn or
painted landscapes and cityscapes. Ancestors of the modern-day postcard,
vedute, topographical in conception, were also vehicles for
the artist's creative and illusionistic vision of nature and architecture.
This exhibition encompasses a range of images by the most sought-after
view painters, or vedutisti: from a Venetian back street
by Giovanni Antonio Canaletto, and a theatrical performance by Francesco
Guardi, to an imaginary antique port by Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
The Italian provinces are also witnessed here through the eyes of
foreign artists such as Jean Honoré Fragonard and Claude-Joseph
Vernet. Like grand tourists themselves, they traversed the routes
of Italy's rich and diverse lands. Drawing Italy in the Age of
the Grand Tour is presented as part of a suite of related exhibitions
at the Museum and the Getty Research Institute Gallery respectively:
Rome on the Grand Tour, which focuses on aristocratic travelers
in 18th-century Rome, and Naples and Vesuvius on the Grand Tour, which explores
Naples as a tourist destination during the period that Sir William
Hamilton served as British ambassador to Naples.
Railroad Vision
March 5-June 23, 2002
By the 1830s, the railroad lines were spreading throughout Britain,
Europe, and North America. This revolutionary mode of transportation
was soon followed by the discovery, in 1839, of photography, a revolutionary
way to make pictures. Through the talents and desires of key individuals,
photography and the railroads together embarked on a journey that
would span the world's continents. From the beginning, art and industry
seemed bound together and into the 20th century railroads remained
a popular subject for photographers. From Édouard Baldus' images
of the new French lines in the 1850s to O. Winston Link's nighttime
views of the last steam-powered trains in 1950s America, the exhibition
will explore the relationship of photography and railroads through
a diverse and engaging selection of photographs.
Special Exhibition
The Sacred Spaces of Pieter Saenredam
April 16-July 7, 2002
Pieter Saenredam (1597-1665) was one of the magical painters of
17th-century Holland, a time known as the "Golden Age"
of Dutch Art. He spent his career immortalizing the churches of
Holland in drawings and paintings. Working through a series of perspective
drawings to the finished painting, he made innumerable fine adjustments
to architectural details to create what may be justly called spaces
of wondrous perfection of proportion and luminosity. The Getty hosts
the only American venue of the most comprehensive exhibition of
Saenredam's work of the past 40 years. It brings together more than
40 preparatory drawings and a collection of paintings depicting
the beautiful and historically venerable churches of the ancient
Dutch city of Utrecht. This exhibition was originally created by
the Centraal Museum, Utrecht.
Framing the World (working title)
April 16-July 7, 2002
At the Getty Research Institute Gallery
Through illustrated treatises, drawings, and prints from the collections
of the Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum,
Framing the World explores perspectival illusionism in its fascinating
complexity over a period of four centuries. Perspective is usually
associated with a single technique developed during the Italian
Renaissance for the representation of architectural space on a two-dimensional
surface. The exhibition confronts this enduring misconception by
offering an extraordinary range of perspective theories and of rendering
techniques used by Leon Battista Alberti, Albrecht Dürer, Sebastiano
Serlio, Canaletto, and others, including Elie-Honoré Montagny,
a pupil of Jacques-Louis David. Framing the World relates
directly to the Getty Research Institute's 2001-2002 Scholar Year
theme, Frames of Viewing: Perception, Experience, Judgment;
and it coincides with an exhibition at the Museum on the work of
17th-century Dutch painter Pieter Saenredam, whose depictions of
church interiors reflect his era's interest in perspective as a
tool for artistic description.
Dutch Drawings of the Golden Age (working title)
May 28-August 25, 2002
During the 1600s, the art of drawing flourished in Holland as never
before. Artists from Rembrandt to Jacob van Ruisdael and Jan van
Goyen turned perceptive eyes to the pageant of Dutch life during
the country's so-called "Golden Age." Country fairs, winter
sports on frozen canals, landscapes, flora and fauna--virtually
every aspect of life was recorded in pen or chalk. This installation
celebrates the great age of Dutch drawing through examples chosen
from the Getty's permanent collection. A number of new acquisitions
will also be highlighted.
Gustave Le Gray (working title)
July 9-September 29, 2002
Gustave Le Gray (1820-1884) is widely acknowledged as the most important
French photographer of the 19th century because of his technical
innovations in the medium, his role as the teacher of other noted
photographers, and the extraordinary imagination he brought to picture-making.
The scope of his subject material ranged from early architectural
studies of French Romanesque architecture to portraiture of the
imperial family, from landscapes closely related to the work of
the Barbizon school of painters to the stunning seascapes and cloud
studies that made him famous. As well as photographing French troops
on summer field maneuvers and making views of the city of Paris,
he created images of the monuments of Egypt, where he spent the
last 24 years of his colorful life. This exhibition, which will
cover the full range of his work, was selected from an exhaustive
survey of his work created by and to be shown at the Bibliothèque
nationale in Paris in the spring of 2002.
The Medieval Bestseller: Illuminated Books of Hours (working
title)
July 23-October 13, 2002
Manuscript books of hours, private devotional books containing prayers
addressed to the Virgin Mary, were the "bestsellers" of
the late Middle Ages, and their pages were illuminated by some of
the most accomplished artists of the age. This exhibition explores
the illuminated book of hours and its precursors through 22 manuscripts
from France, Italy, Flanders, and Holland dating from the 12th to
the 16th centuries, all drawn from the Museum's permanent collection.
Among the artists represented are Jean Fouquet, Jean Bourichen,
and Taddeo Crivelli.
Danube Exodus: The Rippling Currents of a River
August 17-September 29, 2002
At the Getty Research Institute Gallery
In The Danube Exodus, Hungarian artist Péter Forgács combines
his own film-based work with materials from the collections of the
Getty Research Institute to create a multimedia interactive installation
that inserts visitors within a stream of historical moments and
personal memories. The exhibition incorporates the amateur film
footage of Captain Nándor Andrásovits, who ferried Eastern European
Jewish refugees along the Danube River from Slovakia to the Black
Sea (and eventually Palestine) in 1939. This narrative is paralleled
by a "reverse" exodus that took place one year later,
when Bessarabian Germans fled to the Third Reich because of the
Soviet annexation of Bessarabia. Through sound, moving images, large-scale
projections, touch-screen maps, and archival materials that include
postcards, photo albums, and a three-volume illustrated survey of
the Danube published in 1726, visitors to the exhibition will be
immersed in stories of displacement narrated from a range of perspectives.
This exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Labyrinth
Research Initiative on Interactive Narrative at the University of
Southern California's Annenberg Center for Communication, with additional
support from the Rockefeller Foundation.
Greuze the Draftsman
September 10-December 1, 2002
Dedicated exclusively to the drawings of Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805),
this exhibition demonstrates his undisputed status as one of France's
greatest draftsmen and presents drawings in all media that explore
a range of subjects. The exhibition highlights two of Greuze's favorite
subjects: human expression and the drama of family life. The Museum's
Head of an Old Man and The Father's Curse: The Ungrateful
Son are joined by 68 other Greuze drawings borrowed from both
U.S. and European collections, including 10 drawings from the Hermitage
Museum, St. Petersburg, that were purchased directly from the artist
in 1769. Co-organized by The Frick Collection and the J. Paul Getty
Museum, this exhibition comes to Los Angeles after first being shown
at The Frick Collection, New York, May 14-August 4, 2002.
Greuze the Painter: Los Angeles Works in Context
September 10-December 1, 2002
Complementing Greuze the Draftsman, the exhibition Greuze
the Painter gathers all the paintings by Greuze in Los Angeles
museum collections, and presents them with national and international
loans. The works on view span Greuze's career and illustrate main
developments in his approach to painting. Highlights of the exhibition
include: Greuze's genre subjects such as the Huntington Art Collection's
delightful Knitter Asleep and its pendant, the Young Schoolboy
Asleep (Musée Fabre); dramatic oil sketches like the Getty Museum's
Cimon and Pero (Roman Charity) and the study of the Head
of a Woman (Metropolitan Museum of Art); and the flamboyant
Portrait of a Lady in Turkish Fancy Dress from the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art (LACMA). Visitors to Greuze the Draftsman
are invited to conclude their exploration by visiting the concurrent
exhibition Greuze the Painter.
18th-century French Drawings (working title)
September 10-December 1, 2002
The 18th century was France's golden age of draftsmanship, with
more artists achieving great technical ability in drawing than at
any other time. This exhibition of about 30 drawings complements
the loan exhibition Greuze the Draftsman by presenting a
survey of 18th-century French drawings from the Museum's collection.
In addition to featuring drawings by some of the century's greatest
painters such as François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard, the
exhibition introduces drawings by some of the petit maîtres--18th-century
French artists who concentrated on drawing rather than painting.
The installation surveys the entire century that opened with the
Rococo fêtes galantes of Antoine Watteau and closed with
the dramatic Neoclassical subjects of Jacques-Louis David.
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PUBLIC PROGRAMS AT THE GETTY
PERFORMANCES, READINGS, AND EVENTS
Unless otherwise noted, events take place in the Harold M. Williams
Auditorium at the Getty Center. Advance reservations for parking
and seating are required; call 310-440-7300 (notice of cancellation
is appreciated). Seating is general admission and reservations for
free events are honored until 15 minutes before the performance
time. Doors open 45 minutes before the start of the program. Parking
at the Getty Center is $5.
New Evening Hours
Beginning Tuesday, September 4, the Getty Center will be open Tuesday
through Thursday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and on Friday
and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. It is closed Mondays and major
holidays.
Gordon Getty Concerts - This series features music complementing
current Museum exhibitions.
Armenia Unbound: A Musical Journey - Vocalists Gagik Badalian
and Sako join the 15-piece Garni Folk Ensemble and Winds of Passion
Duduk Quintet in an evening featuring traditional and contemporary
interpretations of Armenian folk music in conjunction with The
Armenian Gospels of Gladzor exhibition. Produced in collaboration
with Armenian Arts, artistic director, Stepan Partamian. Tickets
($15; Seniors/students $12) are available at the Museum Information
Desk or by calling (310) 440-7300.
Saturday, September 22, 8 p.m.
Sharagank yev Daghk: Sacred Hymns and Arias of the Armenian Renaissance
(10th-13th Centuries) - A concert of Armenian sacred
music with celebrated musician Djivan Gasparyan, a 20-voice female
choir, and a gifted ensemble of local folk and classical musicians.
Produced in collaboration with Lucina Agbabian Hubbard. Tickets
($20; Seniors/students $15) are available at the Museum Information
Desk or by calling (310) 440-7300.
Saturday, November 3, 8 p.m.
Friday Nights at the Getty - This free series of
insight and imagination features eclectic Los Angeles artists. The
Museum's galleries are open on Fridays until 9 p.m. Limit of four
seats per reservation.
John Santos and Omar Sosa Trio - This dynamic trio creates
Afro-Latin music of great virtuosity and innovation, drawing on
a world of traditions--from Afro-Cuban folklore and straight-ahead
jazz, to hip-hop and new music. Produced by Community Arts Resources.
Friday, October 5, 7:30 p.m.
Savoy Family Cajun Band - Ann and Marc Savoy and their sons
play honed-down, hard-core Cajun music, peppered with humorous
anecdotes about life on the Louisiana prairies. Produced by Community
Arts Resources.
Friday, October 12, 7:30 p.m.
One Thousand Years of Popular Music with Richard Thompson, Part
II - Legendary singer/songwriter and guitarist extraordinaire
Richard Thompson returns to the Getty. Produced by Community Arts
Resources.
Friday, October 19, 7:30 p.m.
An Evening with Loudon Wainwright III - Hailed as one of the
great lyricists of our time, singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright
III performs songs from his recent CD release Last Man on Earth.
Friday, November 2, 7:30 p.m.
David Roussève's The Ten Year Chat - Choreographer
David Roussève celebrates a decade of his work with this
L.A. premiere. In a range of solos, he fuses early, recent, and
new work that explores issues of race, gender, and AIDS.
Friday, November 16, 7:30 p.m.
Performance
An Evening of Diversions
Inspired by the Devices of Wonder exhibition, this evening
includes an array of activities designed to transport participants
back 100 years to a time of bewildering possibilities and phenomenal
technological advancements. Produced by Community Arts Resources.
No reservations required.
Saturday, November 17, 6-9 p.m., Museum (various locations)
Reading
Poetry Reading - Acclaimed poets Carol Muske Dukes and
Stan Rice read original works. Presented by the Getty Research
Institute in cooperation with the Poetry Society of America, Los
Angeles.
Thursday, October 11, 7:30 p.m.
GALLERY TALKS AND DEMONSTRATIONS
Point-of-View Gallery Talks - Limited to 25 people per talk;
sign up at the Information Desk in the Museum Entrance Hall beginning
at 4:30 p.m. Talks take place at 6 and 7:30 p.m. in the Museum galleries.
Ceramicist Cindy Kolodziejski discusses the exhibition A Royal
Menagerie: Porcelain Animals from Dresden.
Friday, September 7
Artist Edgar Arceneaux talks about the exhibition Work
and Play: Everyday Life in Drawings, 1520-1820.
Friday, September 21
Artist and writer Vahe Berberian discusses the influences
of Armenian manuscripts on his work in conjunction with the exhibition
The Armenian Gospels of Gladzor.
Friday, October 19
Aaron Smith, a figure painter whose work is strongly influenced
by Italian Baroque paintings, speaks on the exhibition Posing
for Posterity: Portrait Drawings from the Collection.
Friday, November 9
Artist-At-Work Demonstrations
Sculptor Robert Cunningham demonstrates terra-cotta sculpture
techniques in the West Pavilion Art Information Room. Drop-in visitors
are welcome anytime between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m.
Saturdays, September 8, 15, 22 and 29; October 6, 13, and 20
Artist Aaron Smith demonstrates the art of portraiture in the
East Pavilion Art Information Room. Drop-in visitors are welcome
anytime between 1 and 3 p.m.
Thursdays, November 1, 8, 15, and Sundays, November 4, 11, 18,
and 25
RESTAURANT EVENTS
Lunch and Book Signing with Colman Andrews - Getty
chefs Terri Buzzard and Helene Kennan prepare a special three-course
lunch featuring recipes from the newly released Saveur Cooks
Authentic Italian, which offers a passionate appreciation of
a fascinating cuisine. Andrews is editor-in-chief of Saveur
Magazine and one of the country's most distinguished food writers,
whose vigorous curiosity, refined taste, and sense of adventure
have intrigued readers for over two decades. Lunch is $35, or $50
paired with wines. Limited seating; for reservations call 310-440-7300.
Thursday, October 18, 10:30 a.m. (book signing) and 11:30 a.m. (lunch)
Restaurant at the Getty Center
Art Matters Dinner - The Restaurant at the Getty Center is offering
a special three-course prix-fixe dinner prior to the Art Matters
conversation with artist Alexis Smith. Smith's art installation
for the Restaurant at the Getty Center is a witty meditation on
"taste" and its multiple meanings. Dinner is $45, or $60
paired with wines. Limited seating; for reservations call 310-440-7300.
Thursday, October 18, Seating to begin at 5 p.m.
Restaurant at the Getty Center
Lunch and Book Signing with Anne Willan - Getty chefs Terri
Buzzard and Helene Kennan prepare a special three-course lunch featuring
recipes from Cooking with Wine by Anne Willan, president
of the renowned cooking school La Varenne. Lunch is $35, or $50
paired with wines. Limited seating; for reservations call 310-440-7300.
Wednesday, November 7, 10:30 a.m. (book signing) and 11:30 a.m.
(lunch)
Restaurant at the Getty Center
Dinner and Book Signing with Patric Kuh - Getty chef Terri Buzzard
prepares a five-course menu based on The Last Days of Haute Cuisine:
America's Culinary Revolution by Patric Kuh, restaurant critic
for Los Angeles magazine. Each course begins with a brief
reading from this humorous and passionate book. Dinner is $85, or
$125 paired with wines. Limited seating; for reservations call 310-440-7300.
Saturday, November 17, 5 p.m. (book signing) and 6 p.m. (dinner)
Restaurant at the Getty Center
FAMILY ACTIVITIES
Artful Sundays - Families are invited to pick up a handout
before visiting the galleries, and attend this drop-in workshop for
some inspiration and artistic fun.
Every Sunday in September, 12-4 p.m., Family Room Patio
Storytelling - Lively presentations of myths and legends related
to the collections.
No reservations needed. Participants meet in front of the Museum's
Family Room.
English:
Offered every Saturday and Sunday at 11 a.m., noon, and 1 p.m.
Spanish (if requested):
Saturdays
September 1, 15, 29
October 13, 27
November 10, 24
Sign-language interpretation (accompanying storytelling in English):
Sundays September 9, 23
October 7, 21
November 4, 18
Art Adventures for Families - This one-hour gallery talk for
children and adults to enjoy together includes an introduction to
the Family Room and a fun, activity-filled visit to the galleries.
Every Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. Sign-up begins at 1:30 p.m.
at the Information Desk in the Museum Entrance Hall.
Getty Family Festival - The Getty Museum hosts a day of celebration
with performances by local dance and musical groups, storytelling,
art-making workshops, and gallery activities related to The Armenian
Gospels of Gladzor. Produced by Community Arts Resources.
Saturday, October 20, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Families visiting the Getty Center can enjoy a variety of regularly
scheduled activities, audioguide tours, and the Family Room, which
features "Picture Yourself," a playful view of portraits
with game boxes and art kits to use in the galleries, picture books,
computers, and other resources to make the most of their visit with
children. Most family activities are offered in English and Spanish.
ADULT COURSES AND WORKSHOPS
Figuring Sculpture - Join artists and instructors Peter Zokosky
and Elliott Kai-Kee for this two-part, introductory studio course
and gallery tour. Participants explore clay figure sculpting from
a nude model with an emphasis on anatomy, structure, and sculpting
techniques. Materials fee $35. Limited to 25 participants; call 310/440-7300
to register.
Tuesdays, September 4 and 11, 1-5 p.m., Museum Studios
Community Collaboration Workshop - Offers community organization
leaders an orientation to the Museum and teaches how to design and
lead a tour that meets their group's needs. Open to nonprofit groups
only. Advance registration required; call 310-440-7300.
Saturday, October 13, 10 a.m.- 2 p.m., Museum Studios
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LECTURES,
CONFERENCES, AND SYMPOSIA
Unless otherwise noted, these events are open to the public and
take place in the Harold M. Williams Auditorium at the Getty Center.
Advance reservations for parking and seating are required; call
310-440-7300 (notice of cancellation is appreciated). The following
events are free; parking at the Getty Center is $5.
Museum Lectures
Art in Focus Series
Nicolas Poussin's Landscape with a Calm for Jean Pointel
- Denise Allen, associate curator, department of paintings,
J. Paul Getty Museum, explores how Poussin's and his patron Jean
Pointel's shared interests in the newest developments in art and
science resulted in the genesis of the magisterial Landscape
with a Calm, Poussin's only pure landscape painting.
Sunday, September 23, 4 p.m.
Contemplating a Recent Acquisition: El Greco's Christ on the
Cross - Dawson Carr, associate curator, department of
paintings, J. Paul Getty Museum, considers the reasons for the
popularity of El Greco's frequent depictions of Christ dying on
the cross as well as their mass production by the artist, his
workshop, and his followers. The lecture will also examine why
the Getty Museum bought a previously unrecorded version of El
Greco's Christ on the Cross in July 2000.
Sunday, October 21, 4 p.m.
Iconographic Programs in Armenian Gospel Books, 13th -14th Centuries
- Ioanna Rapti, chargée de conférences, Centre d'Histoire et
Civilisation de Byzance, lectures in conjunction with The Armenian
Gospels of Gladzor exhibition.
Sunday, October 14, 4 p.m.
A Source for the Gladzor Gospels - Lecture by Helen C. Evans, curator,
department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sunday, October 28, 4 p.m.
Victory at Actium: New Discoveries at the Monument of Augustus at
Nikopolis, Greece - Dr. Konstantinos Zachos, ephor of antiquities,
Greek Ministry of Culture, discusses recent excavations that have
brought to light a clearer plan of the architecture of the monument,
and uncovered some of the greatest sculptural historical reliefs
of the Roman period.
Wednesday, November 7, 4 p.m.
The Gospel as Rose Window - Jack Miles, senior advisor to the
president, J. Paul Getty Trust, and the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author
of God: A Biography, lectures on his new book, Christ:
A Crisis in the Life of God, showing how the art of the Gospel
resembles that of the medieval rose window.
Sunday, November 11, 4 p.m.
Intensified Reality: Visual Devices and the Remaking of Worlds -
Barbara Maria Stafford, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor,
department of art history, University of Chicago, and co-curator
of the Devices of Wonder exhibition, explores the visual
history of technological efficiency and its links with magic and
illusion, visions of transformation, and alternative realms. By
examining optical devices of the pre-industrial and industrial ages,
she traces the continuity between earlier and emergent media.
Thursday, November 15, 7 p.m.
Alvarez Bravo's Metropolis - Roberto Tejada, independent art
critic and co-curator of the exhibition Manuel Alvarez Bravo:
Optical Parables, examines the relationship between the evolving
material culture of modern life in Mexico City and the visual challenges
the metropolis has posed to image makers, from Alvarez Bravo to
present-day photographers and filmmakers.
Sunday, November 18, at 4 p.m.
Getty Research Institure Lectures
Art Matters Series - Organized by the Getty Research Institute,
Art Matters is a series of conversations with artists and
other art professionals about the changing contemporary arts landscape.
Past participants have included Judy Chicago, Billy Al Bengston,
and Irving Blum.
Artist Alexis Smith in conversation with L.A. Times
contributor and Getty Visiting Lecturer Barbara Isenberg. Alexis
Smith is noted for her conceptual art, collages, assemblages, and
such larger pieces as her mixed-media installation in the Getty
Center Restaurant, and the gigantic, multicolored, handmade carpet
she created for SITE Santa Fe's fourth international biennial exhibition.
Thursday, October 18, 7:30 p.m.
Getty Conservation Institute Lectures
Issues in Conservation: Los Angeles - This series of public
lectures, presented by the Getty Conservation Institute and the
Los Angeles Conservancy, examines conservation issues in Los Angeles.
Reclaiming and Revitalizing Los Angeles - Architect Brenda
Levin discusses preservation, renovation, and adaptive re-use
of historic architecture in Los Angeles, focusing on the ideas
and processes that shaped many of Levin & Associates Architects'
projects, including the recently completed renovation of Los Angeles
City Hall.
Thursday, October 4, 7 p.m.
The Persistence of Memory: The Preservation of Places with Difficult
Pasts - Gabi Dolff-Bonekmper, conservator, the Landesdenkmalamt
Berlin; independent filmmaker Felicia Lowe; and Conover Hunt,
principal, Museum Consultations, join moderator Ken Bernstein,
director of preservation issues, Los Angeles Conservancy, for
a panel discussion exploring issues surrounding the preservation
of buildings associated with painful memories, such as the Ambassador
Hotel.
Thursday, November 1, 7 p.m.
GETTY MUSEUM SPANISH-LANGUAGE RESOURCES
The Museum offers a wide variety of services and programs
in Spanish including gallery talks, audioguide recorded tours, architecture
tours, storytelling and the Family Room resources. For further information,
call 310-440-7300.
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NEWS AROUND THE GETTY
CONSERVATION
Collaboration with Dresden restores masterpiece
The paintings conservation department recently hosted Christoph
Schölzel, a guest conservator from the Old Masters Picture Gallery
in Dresden, who studied and restored Andrea Mantegna's Holy Family.
Painted around 1485, the Holy Family is not only considered
to be one of Mantegna's masterpieces, but is also one of the highlights
of the exceptional collections in Dresden. Having the painting in
Los Angeles also provided the opportunity for scientists at the
Getty Conservation Institute to carry out analytical work on the
techniques Mantegna used in this painting. The picture is scheduled
to go on public view in the galleries at the Getty in late October
before its eventual return to Dresden in early 2002.
Equipment acquisition announced for the Library and Conservation
Resource Centre of Trinity College, University of Dublin
A Getty grant in the amount of IR£184,000 (approximately $200,000
US dollars) will support the acquisition of specialized processing
and investigative equipment for the Trinity College Library, the
largest and oldest library in Ireland and the home of the Book of
Kells. The equipment will enhance the library's manuscript conservation
capabilities and will enable the College to apply state-of-the-art
approaches to traditional and modern media and extend training opportunities
to professionals involved in the conservation of books and manuscripts.
The first priorities identified by the Library, and which depend
on the provision of the equipment for safe and effective treatment,
include the analysis of 67 volumes of the Roman Inquisition, and
the detailed examination of the Book of Kells.
Funds to support management plan for ancient site of Pi'ilanihale
Heiau, Hawaii
Getty Grant Program funds of $146,000 have been awarded to support
the development of a comprehensive site management plan for Pi'ilanihale
Heiau, an ancient religious structure located within the National
Tropical Botanical Garden near Hana on the island of Maui. Constructed
of lava rock in the early 13th century, it stands over 40 feet high
and covers almost 52,000 square feet. The project--which received
an initial planning grant in 2000--is designed to ensure the long-term
protection of this National Historic Landmark by building on recent
scholarly research and stabilization efforts. It engages the native
Hawaiian community as well as conservators, archaeologists, botanists,
and specialists in site management and will produce a comprehensive
analysis of the site's current and future needs, ranging from research
and conservation to access and visitor services. The grant is part
of a new Getty funding initiative to develop effective site management
at major archaeological sites.
Experts to meet in Copán, Honduras
In September, the Getty Conservation Institute will participate
in an experts' meeting organized by the Instituto Hondureño de Antropología
e Historia (IHAH) and UNESCO to discuss conservation projects currently
in progress at the archeological site of Copán, Honduras, including
the overall management plan for the site. Through its Maya Initiative
project, the Getty Conservation Institute has been involved since
1998 in developing a conservation plan for the Hieroglyphic Stairway
at Copán. The Getty Conservation Institute will present an overview
of the work it has carried out to date at the site, including photographic
recording, condition survey, scientific analysis of stone material
and installation of an environmental monitoring station, as well
as an overview of the forthcoming condition assessment.
Field campaign organized for Joya de Cerén, El Salvador
The preparation of the management plan for the site of Joya de Cerén,
El Salvador, a component of the multinational Maya Initiative project,
continues with a three-week field campaign in Joya de Cerén in August
and September by the Getty Conservation Institute. The Conservation
Institute, in collaboration with its project partner, the Consejo
Nacional para la Cultura y el Arte (CONCULTURA), will participate
in meetings with representatives from the local community and municipality
to discuss projects related to the site's conservation and recommendations
for activities within the protective buffer zone around the site.
The management team will be involved in a final discussion of the
project profiles (components of the management plan) and in the
finalization of the overall document.
Conservation of wall paintings campaign at Mogao grottoes
The conservation of wall paintings at the Mogao Grottoes near the
ancient town of Dunhuang in northwestern China, a collaboration
of the Getty Conservation Institute with the Dunhuang Academy under
the State Administration for Cultural Heritage in China, will continue
during a five-week field campaign in the fall 2001. Further intervention
in the wall paintings of Cave 85 (9th-century Tang dynasty Buddhist
wall paintings) will include evaluation of field tests implemented
in the spring 2001, and the investigation of technology and design
options for non-harmful lighting in the Mogao caves. After completion
of the campaign in October, Getty Conservation Institute staff will
present papers on the project at the Xian Wall Paintings Conference.
China Principles project to produce master plan at Mogao grottoes
Team members from the Getty Conservation Institute, the State Administration
for Cultural Heritage in China and the Australian Heritage Commission
will follow up on a previous workshop to apply the China Principles
(national guidelines for conservation and management of cultural
heritage sites in China) at the Mogao Grottoes near Dunhuang. This
campaign will produce a final master plan for the site, developing
a strategy for understanding and addressing visitor management and
carrying capacity, as well as other issues related to the presentation
of the site. Team members will initiate a Principles application
workshop at Chengde, the Qing dynasty imperial summer resort north
of Beijing.
Mosaics conservation training in Tunisia to hold final session
As part of its international Mosaics In-Situ project, the Conservation
Institute is working with the Institut National du Patrimoine (INP)
in Tunisia to implement practical training in the care and maintenance
of in situ archaeological mosaics. The goal is to develop a group
of INP technicians who can respond to the maintenance and stabilization
needs of archaeological mosaics in Tunisia. After two training sessions
held earlier this year, the nine Tunisian trainees meet again in
October for a final session. Topics to be covered include coverings,
reburial, and shelters; visitor management; maintenance systems;
and storage of detached mosaics. Training takes place at the site
of Utica, near Tunis.
Conservation Guest Scholar program to begin second year
The Getty Conservation Institute welcomes its second group of Conservation
Guest Scholars beginning in September 2001. Through the year, seven
senior scholars in conservation and related fields will utilize
the resources and facilities of the Getty Center to pursue independent
work in a wide variety of areas of general interest to the field.
Applications for the 2002-2003 scholar program are available on
www.getty.edu; the submission
deadline is November 1, 2001.
Postgraduate Conservation Internship grants awarded
The Getty Grant Program recently awarded nearly $400,000 to the
Library of Congress, The Field Museum of National History, the Cornell
University Library, and the Intermuseum Conservation Association.
Now in its 11th year, the Postgraduate Conservation Internship program
is designed to support the professional development of conservators
by providing them with opportunities to receive hands-on experience
in the field and in their area of specialization. The current grants
enable 16 interns to focus on honing their expertise in paintings,
paper, and anthropological and ethnographic conservation.
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EDUCATION/SCHOLARSHIP
Getty Grant Program awards Collaborative Research Grants
Collaborative Research Grants totaling over $1.4 million will allow
seven teams of scholars from around the world to conduct interdisciplinary
research projects on a range of subjects. For example, a group of
researchers from the United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland,
Cameroon, and France will investigate "Bamum Art Worlds: Integration
and Innovation in the Grasslands of Cameroon from 1700 to the Present,"
a project that will examine the development of the strikingly original
art and architecture of the independent Bamum kingdom using the
rich collections and archives in Cameroon and abroad. Another team
will explore the work of the important French Renaissance architect
Du Cerceau in preparation for an exhibition in Paris at the new
"City of Architecture." The latter represents the Grant
Program's continuing support for the research and planning of scholarly
exhibitions.
Getty Research Institute announces 2001-2002 Getty Scholars
The Getty Research Institute has announced the selection of the
Getty Scholars who will be in residence at the Getty Center beginning
in September 2001. Every year the Research Institute invites scholars
and artists to participate in its residential Scholar Year, during
which they access Research Institute collections to work on projects
related to a theme central to the concerns of art history. The 2001-2002
Scholar Year theme is "Frames of Viewing: Perception, Experience,
Judgment." Through extensive public programs that include exhibitions,
lectures, films, and conferences, this year's focus on frames of
viewing will connect the arts with the cognitive sciences, history,
anthropology, philosophy, film, and media studies. The theme of
the 2002-2003 Scholar Year is "Biography." Applications
are due November 1, 2001. Application forms are available online
at www.getty.edu/grants/funding/research/scholars/residential,
or by calling 310-440-7374.
Second round of Curatorial Research Fellowships awarded
The Getty Grant Program recently awarded eight Curatorial Research
Fellowships totaling more than $100,000. Now in its second year,
the program is designed to support the professional scholarly development
of curators by providing them with time off from regular museum
duties to undertake short-term research or study projects. Grantees
from five American and three European institutions will pursue subjects
ranging from Egyptian textiles to the photography of Gary Winogrand.
University of Oregon receives grant for conference on historic
preservation
A $250,000 grant was recently awarded to the University of Oregon
in support of a three-day national conference to be held in the
spring of 2002 on the topic of historic preservation on college
and university campuses. The conference will seek to convene a diverse
mix of interested parties representing universities, historic preservation
specialists/organizations, and local communities to address the
complex issues surrounding historic campus preservation. Key topics
will include master planning, town/gown relations, and approaches
to preservation, with the ultimate goal of encouraging campuses
to include historic preservation in their planning processes.
Mies in Berlin exhibition opens to critical acclaim
In June, the groundbreaking Mies in Berlin exhibition opened
at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A 1998 Getty grant of $179,000
supported the research phase of this innovative collaboration between
museum and university scholars. The first in-depth look at the early
career of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the exhibition moves
beyond an approach that frames Mies's work only in relation to the
subsequent development of the International Style in architecture
to examine his early German career. The exhibition will travel to
the Altes Museum in Berlin (December 14, 2001 to March 10, 2002),
the Fundacio la Caixa in Barcelona (July 30 to September 29, 2002),
and other venues to be announced.
Getty grant supports major collaborative exhibition of Los Angeles
libraries' collections
The World from Here: Treasures of the Great Libraries of Los
Angeles, a unique collaboration of nearly 30 Los Angeles area
libraries is being supported by a $78,000 grant from the Getty Grant
Program. The libraries, including the Getty Research Institute Research
Library, are joining together to display highlights of their collections
at the UCLA Hammer Museum from October 17, 2001 through January
13, 2002. Because of the extraordinary depth of library special
collections in Los Angeles, the Getty granted an initial $20,000
planning grant to the exhibition organizers in 1999, which enabled
the curatorial team to leverage over $850,000 in additional funds
needed to support the entire project. The grant from the Getty represents
the final financing required to carry out the exhibition.
Deadline announced for 2002-2003 Getty Research Grants
In addition to Collaborative Research Grants, Postdoctoral Fellowships,
and Curatorial Research Fellowships, the Getty offers a variety
of other residential and nonresidential research grants. The application
deadline for the 2002-2003 grant cycle is November 1, 2001. Application
forms are available online at www.getty.edu/grants/funding/research/scholars,
or by calling 310-440-7374.
Museum Management Institute announces application cycle
The application process for the 2002 Museum Management Institute
opens on September 4, when information and application forms will
be available by mail as well as online at www.getty.edu/about/leader.
The process closes on December 3. The Museum Management Institute
is an intensive three-week executive development program emphasizing
strategic thinking and planning, finance, marketing, organizational
behavior, and team building; it is the flagship program of the Getty
Leadership Institute. This year marked the 22nd class of the Museum
Management Institute; the program has over 800 alumni from across
the U.S. and from over 20 countries.
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GETTY IN PRINT
Publications can be ordered through the Getty Publications online
catalog at www.getty.edu or by
calling 800-223-3431. For review copies, contact Getty Publications
at 310-440-6795 or at pubsinfo@getty.edu.
The following publications are new this fall:
The Armenian Gospels of Gladzor
The Life of Christ Illuminated
Thomas F. Mathews and Alice Taylor
Examines the historical and social contexts of this masterpiece
of Armenian illumination, and explores the distinctly Armenian view
of the life of Christ expressed in its miniatures, with 60 color
reproductions. J. Paul Getty Museum, $39.95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback
The Bible in the Armenian Tradition
Vrej Nersessian
A concise historical account of the development of the Bible in
Armenia and the illustrative traditions that are represented in
surviving codices.
J. Paul Getty Museum, $29.95 hardcover
Color Science in the Examination of Museum Objects
Nondestructive Procedures
Ruth Johnston-Feller
The life work of one of the nation's leading color scientists, combining
an overview of basic theoretical concepts with detailed, hands-on
guidance for the professional conservator and conservation scientist.
Getty Conservation Institute, Tools for Conservation series, $80
paperback
Devices of Wonder
From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen
Barbara Maria Stafford and Frances Terpak
With an object list by Isotta Poggi
An exhilarating study of the artful machines humans have used to
augment visual perception and the ways in which they have shaped
our encounters with the world.
Getty Research Institute, $39.95, paperback
Effects of Light on Materials in Collections
Data on Photoflash and Related Sources
Terry T. Schaeffer
A survey on the impact of the impact of exposure to light with emphasis
on photoflash and reprographic sources.
Getty Conservation Institute, Research in Conservation series, $30
paperback
Greek Funerary Sculpture
Catalogue of the Collections at the Getty Villa
Janet Burnett Grossman
Presents 59 Greek funerary monuments in the Antiquities collection
of the Getty Museum, spanning Classical and Hellenistic periods.
J. Paul Getty Museum, $55 hardcover
In Focus: Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
An array of photographs by Mexico's great artist, Manuel Alvarez
Bravo (b. 1902), whose career spans many decades and reflects numerous
changes in artistic fashion.
J. Paul Getty Museum, In Focus series, $17.50 paperback
Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae
Volume Sesto: Index
Eva Margareta Steinby, General Editor
The final volume in a multi-volume set that contains 2,300 entries
on the topography of ancient Rome. Includes analytic indexes to
monuments and persons, a general bibliography, and articles on the
sources used by the contributors.
Distributed by the J. Paul Getty Museum, $75 hardcover
Looking for Los Angeles
Architecture, Film, Photography, and the Urban Landscape
Edited by Charles G. Salas and Michael S. Roth
Twelve essays focus on dramatic shifts in the urban landscape of
Los Angeles, important moments in its architectural history, and
the role of the image in this mecca of image-makers.
Getty Research Institute, Issues and Debates series, $45 paperback
Masterpieces of Marquetry
Volume I: From the Beginnings to Louis XIV
Volume II: From the Régence to the Present Day
Volume III: Outstanding Marqueters
Pierre Ramond
Translated by Brian Considine
A comprehensive survey of the techniques and history of marquetry,
the highly specialized art of creating intricate pictures and designs
on furniture by fitting together thin pieces of wood, metal, shell,
and other materials, as popularized in France in the 18th century.
J. Paul Getty Museum, $295 set
Medieval Panorama
Edited by Robert Bartlett
An all-encompassing visual recreation of the medieval world: its
peoples, its defining characteristics, and its whole culture in
the widest sense.
J. Paul Getty Museum, $50 hardcover
New in paperback
Nadar/Warhol: Paris/New York
Photography and Fame
Gordon Baldwin and Judith Keller
Features the portraiture of 19th-century Nadar and 20th-century
Warhol, illuminating the role of the visual artist in the conscious
creation of celebrity.
J. Paul Getty Museum, $34.95 paperback
A Royal Menagerie
Meissen Porcelain Animals
Samuel Wittwer
Displays the heroic figures of Meissen porcelain animals made for
the impressive collection of Frederick-Augustus I, elector of Saxony.
J. Paul Getty Museum, $14.95 paperback
Coming Soon for Children
See and Do Children's Book: Rembrandt
Ceciel de Bie and Martijn Leenen
Beautiful illustrations and a biographical sketch of Rembrandt bring
the painter and his paintings to life. Ages 9 to 12.
J. Paul Getty Museum, $19.95 hardcover
Sophocles' Antigone
Retold by Gita Wolf and Sirish Rao
Illustrated by Indrapramit Roy
A modern retelling of the enduring Greek story, with original illustrations
in the style of ancient Greek art silk-screened on handmade paper.
J. Paul Getty Museum, $18.95 hardcover
Studia Varia from the J. Paul Getty Museum, Volume 2
Edited by Marion True and Mary Louise Hart
The second volume in a series on wide-ranging topics relating to
objects in the Antiquities collection of the Getty Museum. With
seven articles in English, German, and Italian.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Occasional Papers on Antiquities 10, $50 paperback
Treasures from the Ark
1,700 Years of Armenian Christian Art
Vrej Nersessian
An extensive new survey of Armenian Christian art, this fascinating
history is essential to understanding the art and religious tradition
of Armenia, where the sense of the sacred permeates the entire fabric
of Armenian affairs.
J. Paul Getty Museum, $60 hardcover
Walker Evans: Cuba
Essay by Andrei Codrescu
Introduction by Judith Keller
More than 50 of Evans's photographs taken in Cuba in 1933, with
a provocative essay by writer Andrei Codrescu.
J. Paul Getty Museum, $24.95 hardcover
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