Summer 2002
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Exhibitions through July 2003
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EXHIBITIONS AT THE GETTY CENTER
All exhibitions located in the J. Paul Getty Museum unless otherwise
indicated.
New Exhibitions Opening Summer 2002
Gustave Le Gray, Photographer
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 presented at the Bibliothèque
nationale in Paris in the spring of 2002.
Press
Release
Songs of Praise: Illuminated Choir Books
July 23-October 13, 2002
Christian choir books number among the most impressive illuminated
manuscripts of the high Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Because
they were often displayed on a lectern in the sanctuary, where they
served as part of the adornment of the church, they were embellished
with large painted initials and often extensive border decoration.
This exhibition presents the various types of choir books and their
characteristic illumination and also includes a section on historical
music notation. It features 21 illuminated manuscripts and leaves
and cuttings from choir books, all from the Museum’s permanent
collection. The objects date from the 12th to the 16th century and
come from throughout Western Europe (Italy, Spain, Germany, France).
Press
Release
Danube Exodus: The Rippling Currents of the River
August 17-September 29, 2002
At the Getty Research Institute Exhibition Gallery and Lecture
Hall
In The Danube Exodus, Hungarian artist Péter Forgács
creates an interactive video installation designed to involve museum
visitors in historical narratives about the “displacement”
of ethnic minorities and the possible connections between them.
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 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 for a related DVD. This collaboration
between the artist and the Labyrinth creative team was launched
during the filmmaker’s residency at the Getty Research Institute
in 2000-2001 in response to the theme “Reproductions and Originals.”
Continuing Exhibitions and Installations
Railroad Vision
Through June 23, 2002
By the 1830s, 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 1860s to O. Winston
Link’s nighttime views of the last steam-powered trains in
1950s America, the exhibition explores the relationship of photography
and railroads through a diverse and engaging selection of photographs.
Press
Release
A Treasury of 15th-Century Manuscript Illumination
Through July 7, 2002
The 1400s marked a transition for the 1,000-year-old tradition of
manuscript illumination. The century was also a seminal era for
the development of independent painting in the new oil technique
on wooden panels. The mid century saw the introduction of the printed
book, the product of a new technology whose efficiency and cost-effectiveness
posed an immediate threat to the culture of the handwritten book.
Despite these new developments, the illuminated manuscript enjoyed
a golden era. This exhibition celebrates the art of illumination
in the 15th century through 26 manuscript books and leaves and cuttings
from manuscripts in the Museum’s permanent collection, including
the work of Jean Fouquet, Lieven van Lathem, Simon Marmion, Taddeo
Crivelli, and Girolamo da Cremona. Press
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Special Exhibition
The Sacred Spaces of Pieter Saenredam
Through July 7, 2002
Pieter Saenredam (1597-1665) was one of the most remarkable painters
of the Dutch Golden Age. He spent his career immortalizing the churches
of Holland in drawings and paintings. The study of his numerous
preparatory drawings in conjunction with the finished paintings
conveys the process by which he created his sacred spaces. The Getty
Museum is the only American venue to present the most comprehensive
exhibition of Saenredam’s work in the past 40 years. It brings
together drawings and paintings depicting the venerable churches
of Utrecht. The exhibition was originally organized by the Centraal
Museum, Utrecht. Press
Release
The Geometry of Seeing: Perspective and the Dawn of Virtual
Space
Through July 7, 2002
At the Getty Research Institute Exhibition Gallery
Through illustrated treatises, drawings, and prints from the collections
of the Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, The
Geometry of Seeing 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
acquainting the public with an extraordinary range of perspective
theories and rendering techniques used by Leon Battista Alberti,
Albrecht Dürer, Sebastiano Serlio, and many others, including
Elie-Honoré Montagny, a pupil of Jacques-Louis David. The
Geometry of Seeing relates directly to the Getty Research Institute’s
2001-2002 Scholar Year theme, “Frames of Viewing: Perception,
Experience, Judgment.” It also coincides with an exhibition
at the Museum on the work of 17th-century Dutch painter Pieter Saenredam,
whose depictions of interiors reflect his era’s interest in
perspective as a tool for artistic description.
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Release
Rome on the Grand Tour
Through 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 the Getty 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. In addition to paintings, the exhibition
includes printed materials that promoted and guided the journey,
portraits, hand-colored prints of city views, ancient and contemporary
sculpture, and souvenir gems. It also features objects reflecting
the serious study of ancient art, which ultimately transcended the
age of the Grand Tour and gave birth to Neoclassicism.
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Release
Dutch Drawings of the Golden Age
Through 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,
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. Press
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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
Release
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 July 2003
Special Exhibition
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. Organized by The Frick Collection in association
with 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. Press
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Greuze the Painter: Los Angeles Works in Context
September 10-December 1, 2002
Complementing Greuze the Draftsman, this exhibition 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).
French Drawings in the Age of Greuze
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 35 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 petits
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.
Orazio Gentileschi’s Paintings for Giovan Antonio Sauli
(working title)
October 1, 2002-January 12, 2003
Orazio Gentileschi (1563-1639) was the most gifted and individual
of Caravaggio’s followers. Between 1621 and 1623, he established
his fame with three extraordinary paintings for a Genoese nobleman,
Giovan Antonio Sauli. This small exhibition will reunite the Getty’s
Lot and His Daughters with its original hanging companions,
Danaë and the Shower of Gold and Saint Mary Magdalen
in Ecstasy, both on loan from private collections. The ensemble
will demonstrate how Gentileschi tempered Caravaggio’s revolutionary
realism with a refined sense of beauty that is especially revealed
in elegant, stylized compositions and a poetic use of light and
color.
About Life: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange
October 15, 2002-February 9, 2003
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) grew up in New York, but established
herself as a photographer in California in 1919. She was first a
studio portraitist in San Francisco. During the Great Depression,
when the unemployed were on the streets and the migrant workers
were on the road, she left her studio to document the new realities
of American life. The photographs she made for the state and federal
government during the 1930s have become universally recognized symbols
of that difficult era. This exhibition will not only present some
of the best of her work for the Farm Security Administration, but
will include earlier work made on the pueblos of New Mexico, post-World
War II pictures made in Utah’s Mormon communities for Life
magazine, images from her later travels in Egypt and the Far East,
and photographs of her family made at home in Berkeley. This show
of approximately 85 prints, ranging across Lange’s career from
the 1920s to the 1960s, is selected primarily from the Getty’s
permanent collection.
The Grapes of Wrath: Horace Bristol’s California Photographs
October 15, 2002-February 9, 2003
Born and raised in California, Horace Bristol (1908-1997) began
his career as a freelance photographer in San Francisco in the late
1920s. By the mid-1940s, he had established himself as a leading
documentary photographer for magazines such as Life, Fortune, and
Time. Influenced by the social documentary work of Dorothea Lange,
Bristol proposed a picture story for Life in 1937 on Dust Bowl migrants
and their daily struggles in California’s Central Valley. This
exhibition features the series he later called The Grapes of
Wrath. Drawn mainly from the Getty’s holdings, the show
will include approximately 35 pictures.
The Medieval Bestseller: Illuminated Books of Hours
October 29, 2002-January 19, 2003
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 period. This exhibition explores
the illuminated book of hours and its precursors through 21 manuscripts
from France, Italy, Flanders, and Holland dating from the 12th to
the 16th century, all drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection.
Among the artists represented are Jean Fouquet, Jean Bourdichon,
and Taddeo Crivelli.
Landscapes of Myth
November 5, 2002-February 2, 2003
At the Getty Research Institute Exhibition Gallery
This exhibition focuses on 15th- to 19th-century illustrations of
sites that are legendary settings in Greek mythology. Travelers
often used classical literature as a guide to rediscovering the
remains of ancient Greece. Others set out to observe the actual
place—its geography, climate, and customs—in order to
experience more immediately the poetry of the ancient texts. Through
paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints, maps, and photographs
from the Getty collections, the exhibition pairs familiar stories
of Greek deities and mortals with lesser known images of the places
where they were believed to have occurred, including Athens, Ithaka,
Eleusis, Argos, Knossos, Thebes, Troy, and other landscapes of myth.
Mise-en-Page: Placement on the Page (working title)
December 17, 2002-March 9, 2003
Mise-en-page, French for “placement on the page,” designates
one of the most highly prized aesthetic qualities of old master
drawings. Draftsmen developed a keen eye for leaving evocative areas
of blank space around the forms. They also exploited the tantalizing,
ambiguous spatiality of the paper as both a two-dimensional surface
and a medium used to suggest indeterminate depth. This exhibition
explores the nature of draftsmanship from an aesthetic point of
view and in works from the Getty collections, and highlights some
of the essential and unique traits of Western drawing as it developed
over five centuries.
Special Exhibition
Bill Viola: The Passions and Five Angels (working title)
January 28-April 27, 2003
In The Passions, the celebrated video artist Bill Viola explores
how changing facial expression and body language express emotional
states using flat-screen monitors of various sizes, some resembling
portable altarpieces of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. After
filming the actors at very high speeds, Viola replays the action
in extreme slow motion, with riveting results. The artist participated
in the 1997-1998 Scholar Year at the Getty Research Institute focusing
on representation of the human passions. Five Angels is a recent
video/sound installation of the kind that made Viola famous; it
has tremendous symbolic and emotional power.
Surrealist Muse: Lee Miller, Roland Penrose, and Man Ray ,
1925-1945
February 25, 2003-June 15, 2003
This exhibition focuses on Lee Miller (American, 1907-1977) in her
role as model, source of inspiration for other artists, and as a
creative artist working in photography. The show traces Miller’s
life in photographs, paintings, and mixed-media works, from her
career as a fashion model in New York in the 1920s to her bohemian
life in Europe in the 1930s. During the late 1920s Miller was the
subject of photographs by Edward Steichen, George Hyningen-Huene,
and others in the New York fashion scene. She became the studio
assistant and subject of photographs by Man Ray in Paris between
1929 and 1932, and with him she collaborated in the rediscovery
of the solarization process. She also inspired paintings, drawings,
mixed-media works and photographs by Man Ray and Roland Penrose,
and paintings by Pablo Picasso. Miller also created a significant
body of photographs that were informed by the principles of surrealism
even when she was working in portraiture, fashion, and journalism.
French Baroque Drawings (working title)
March 25-June 29, 2003
The visual arts flourished in France during the reigns of Louis
XIII (1610-1643) and Louis XIV (1643-1710). Encouraged and supported
by these kings and their courts, artists not only created some of
France’s greatest artwork, but also founded an academy to encourage
its most promising young artists to continue the achievements of
the French school. This exhibition of drawings showcases this dynamic
century of French art and features the Getty collection’s strong
holdings of works from this period in all its variety of styles
and subjects. Featured works include landscapes by Jacques Callot
and Claude Lorrain, and the classically inspired work of Nicolas
Poussin. Also on view for the first time will be recently acquired
drawings by Eustache Le Sueur, Pierre Puget, and Charles de La Fosse.
500 Years of Manuscript Illumination (working title)
May 20-September 7, 2003
This exhibition of 24 illuminated manuscripts introduces the different
sorts of manuscript books that received lavish embellishment in
the Middle Ages and Renaissance through outstanding examples from
the Museum’s permanent collection. It presents a variety of
styles and types of manuscript painting produced over the course
of about 500 years. Included are private devotional books, religious
service books, and books of history and law from throughout Western
Europe and the Mediterranean basin dating from the 11th to the 15th
century.
The Making of a Medieval Book
May 20-September 7, 2003
This installation explains how illuminated manuscripts were made
in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The process begins with the
preparation of animal skin to make parchment (or vellum), continues
through the writing and painting stages, and ends with the binding
of the volume. Several manuscripts in the Museum’s collection
are on view, illustrating the materials and techniques of medieval
manuscript production.
Special Exhibition
Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript
Painting in Europe, 1467-1561
June 17-September 7, 2003
This exhibition of over 130 works of art focuses on the finest and
most ambitiously illuminated books produced in Flanders (southern
Netherlands and northern France) between 1467 and 1561, beginning
with the reign of the Burgundian duke Charles the Bold, continuing
through the reign of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, and ending
with the death of the artist Simon Bening. As the first comprehensive
view of this great epoch in Flemish illumination, the exhibition—which
includes illuminated manuscripts and leaves from manuscripts, panel
paintings, and drawings—centers on the art and careers of the
most important artists, such as Simon Marmion, The Master of Mary
of Burgundy, Gerard Horenbout, and Simon Bening. The show examines
the degree to which the innovative style of these remarkable books’
decoration, the naturalism of their miniatures, and the illusion
created by their floral-pattern borders came to be identified with
Flemish glory and Hapsburg power. Organized by the J. Paul Getty
Museum, the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and The British Library,
Illuminating the Renaissance will be on view at the Royal
Academy of Arts from November 25, 2003 to February 22, 2004.
Points of Synthesis: Photographs by Edmund Teske
July 1-October 5, 2003
This exhibition is the first comprehensive retrospective of the
photographs of Edmund Teske (1911-96) surveying the entire range
of his career. An artist driven by pure imagination, Teske created
a diverse body of work over a 60-year period that explored the expressive
and emotional potential of the medium. His photographs reflect an
intensely personal vision and address intimate issues of autobiography
in a frankly romantic fashion. An alchemist in the darkroom, Teske’s
enthusiasm for experimentation and his sophisticated embrace of
solarization and composite printing—sometimes combining images
from different periods in a single finished work—liberated
a generation of younger American photographers who sought ways to
break away from established photographic procedures. Born and bred
in Chicago, Teske moved to Los Angeles in 1943, where he maintained
a deep involvement with the city’s community of artists for
more than 50 years. The exhibition will be comprised of approximately
115 photographs, the majority never before published or exhibited.
Included will be exquisitely crafted contact prints from the 1930s,
revealing Teske’s origins as a social documentarian; richly
evocative figure studies and rhapsodies on nature; views of Frank
Lloyd Wright architecture; studies in abstraction; and portraits
of Hollywood actors and musicians.
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NEWS AROUND THE GETTY
CONSERVATION
Museum conserves 17th-century masterpiece
As part of its continuing collaborative program of providing restoration
work to other institutions, the paintings conservation department
at the J. Paul Getty Museum has recently completed treatment of
an important yet little-known work by Mattia Preti. The Martyrdom
of St. Bartholomew was painted in Naples around 1650. In the
early 19th century, King Francis of the Two Sicilies made a gift
of the picture to the Saint Joseph Proto-Cathedral in Bardstown,
Kentucky, where it remains to this day. After suffering many years
of neglect and misguided restorations (including complete over-painting
of the surface in the 1950s), the picture was sent to the Getty
for study and development of a plan for treatment. Two years of
difficult work have restored the picture, and the exceptional character
and quality of the original handling is once again visible. The
painting will be on view at the Getty until July 2002. It will be
returned to Bardstown in time for re-consecration of the Proto-Cathedral
as a Basilica in August of this year.
June launch planned for a major online conservation resource
The Getty Conservation Institute, in association with the International
Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC),
is bringing Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts to the World
Wide Web as a free service to the international conservation community.
When it is publicly launched on June 8, 2002, AATA Online: Abstracts
of International Conservation Literature (aata.getty.edu/conservation)
will offer all 36 volumes of Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts
and its predecessor, IIC Abstracts, published between 1955 and the
present. By year end, abstracts from the 20 AATA special supplements
and almost 2,000 abstracts published between 1932 and 1955 by the
Fogg Art Museum and the Freer Gallery of Art will be included as
well. Ultimately, more than 100,000 abstracts related to the preservation
and conservation of material cultural heritage will be accessible
in AATA Online. New abstracts will be added quarterly, as AATA staff
work with subject editors and volunteer abstractors to expand the
breadth, depth, and currency of coverage.
Latin American Consortium’s emergency preparedness group
to meet in Santiago, Chile
As part of the Getty Conservation Institute’s Latin American
Consortium project—focused on the enhancement of preventive
conservation in Latin America by increasing educators’ access
to teaching resources, information, and expertise—Institute
staff and members of the Consortium’s emergency preparedness
working group will meet in Santiago, Chile, June 17 through 20,
2002 to discuss ongoing emergency preparedness training activities
and to determine future areas of work. The emergency preparedness
group, which includes cultural property professionals from Chile,
Brazil, Columbia, Argentina, and Cuba, seeks to develop didactic
materials and to create and maintain a network of emergency preparedness
instructors throughout Latin America.
Mosaics maintenance training in Tunisia to continue
The Conservation Institute, as part of its international Mosaics
in Situ project, 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. Beginning in May
2002, six technicians from the INP who participated in last October’s
training initiative at the site of Utica will continue their supervised
practical experience in recording and condition assessment of mosaics,
and in planning and executing maintenance treatments utilizing lime-based
mortars with a five-week training campaign at the Roman site of
Thububo Majus. This campaign is part of a national strategy to create
teams of maintenance technicians to work on mosaics at sites in
different regions of the country.
Mosaics meeting to be held in Nicosia, Cyprus
In June 2002, the Getty Conservation Institute will convene a four-day
meeting of mosaic conservation professionals in Nicosia, Cyprus,
as part of its Mosaics in Situ project to address important issues
related to the conservation and management of ancient mosaic pavements
in situ. Hosted by the University of Cyprus, the aim of the meeting
is to identify the principal needs of the field in terms of research
and application, and to develop strategies to address those needs
at various levels—from the individual mosaic to the site as
a whole, and at a regional or national level.
New Preserve L.A. Grants Announced
The Getty recently awarded nearly $1.3 million in grants to support
the preservation of historic buildings and sites in Los Angeles
County as part of its Preserve L.A. initiative. Currently in its
second cycle, the initiative provides funds to conserve landmark
buildings of architectural, cultural, and historical significance.
The 2002 grantees, which include the 19th-century landmark Far East
Building in Little Tokyo, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House,
and the Rose Garden at Exposition Park, represent the broad array
of structures and sites that have shaped the unique cultural heritage
of Los Angeles County, including museums, places of worship, and
historical residences that have played pivotal roles in defining
the identities of local communities—from San Fernando to San
Pedro to the San Gabriel Valley to Los Feliz. The next Preserve
LA application deadline is August 20, 2002. The Getty will host
a free workshop for potential applicants to help guide them through
the application process. The workshop will be held on Tuesday, June
25, 2002 at the Getty Center. A list of grant recipients, application
forms, and additional information is available online at
www.getty.edu/grants.
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EDUCATION/SCHOLARSHIP
Getty and Los Angeles County partner on summer internship program
In the third year of a partnership creating the nation's largest
arts internship program, the Getty and the Los Angeles County Arts
Commission have jointly awarded more than $1.1 million to support
284 visual, performing, and literary arts internships throughout
Los Angeles this summer. By providing firsthand experience working
in arts organizations, the internships introduce students of diverse
backgrounds to the wide range of career possibilities in cultural
organizations. This summer also marks the ten-year anniversary of
the Getty program, which has provided over $4.1 million to support
nearly 1,200 internships since its inception in 1993. Information
on participating organizations is available online at
www.getty.edu/grants.
UC Press receives grant for American art series
The Regents of the University of California have been awarded a
Getty grant of $230,000 to support the development of 13 books on
American art history to be published by the University of California
Press. In recent years, the University of California Press has expanded
its art book list and increased its commitment to the discipline
of American art history. Funding from the Getty Grant Program will
be used to help defray various publication costs for books that
range in subject matter from surveys of individual artists, such
as Winslow Homer and Charles Wilson Peale, to broader cultural studies
on such topics as contemporary Asian-American art and 19th-century
painters and photographers at Yosemite.
Grant supports catalogue of Huntington Library’s French
art collection
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in
San Marino, California recently received a grant of $200,000 to
support the cataloguing of its collection of French art from 1680
to 1800. The collection contains almost 300 items, including painting,
sculpture, furniture, porcelain, tapestries, and carpets. The Huntington’s
French collection is far less well known than other aspects of the
art collection, and grant funds will be used to assemble a team
of international experts to prepare a scholarly catalogue that will
be accessible to the general public as well as to scholars of French
art and culture.
Netherlands Architecture Institute receives archival grant
The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) has received a grant
of 200,000 Euros ($175,805 USD) for the arrangement and description
of the Pierre Cuypers archive. Cuypers is considered the most significant
Dutch architect of the 19th century; he was responsible for both
the Central Station and Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The Cuypers archive
at the NAI is by far the largest and richest 19th-century office
archive still in existence, containing more than 6,000 drawings
for one project alone (the De Haar Castle). The grants will enable
the NAI to arrange and describe the materials in the archive and
to reconstruct the original sequences of the project documents.
Such efforts will lead to an accurate inventory of the Cuypers archive,
which serves as a critical resource in the extensive rebuilding
and restoration being planned for the Rijksmuseum and De Haar Castle.
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calling 800-223-3431. For review copies, contact Getty Publications
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The following publications are new this summer:
New in June
The Archaeology of Colonialism
Edited by Claire L. Lyons and John K. Papadopoulos
This book demonstrates how artifacts are not only the residue of
social interaction, but also instrumental in shaping identities
and communities.
Getty Research Institute, Issues & Debates series, $39.95 paperback
New in July
El Pueblo: The Historic Heart of Los Angeles
Jean Bruce Poole and Tevvy Ball
Combining engaging text with historical paintings, archival photographs,
and new photography, this publication creates a vivid portrait of
the Pueblo’s history and heritage.
Getty Conservation Institute in collaboration with the J. Paul Getty
Museum, Conservation and Cultural Heritage series, $24.95 paperback
New in August
In Focus: William Henry Fox Talbot
Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
This volume presents a selection of photographs by the scientist,
mathematician, author, artist, and inventor of photography as we
know it.
J. Paul Getty Museum, In Focus series, $17.50 paperback
New in August
Introduction to Art Image Access: Tools, Standards, and Strategies
Edited by Murtha Baca
This publication addresses the issues that underlie the intellectual
process of documenting a visual collection to make it accessible
in an electronic environment.
Getty Research Institute, Introduction To series, $19.95 paperback
New in August
The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Antiquities Collection
This handbook presents nearly 200 of the Museum’s most important
pieces, including J. Paul Getty’s prized possession, the
Lansdowne Herakles.
J. Paul Getty Museum, $22.95 hardcover, $14.95 paperback
New in August
James Ensor: Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889
Patricia G. Berman
This new publication examines the dazzling, innovative painting
in light of Belgium’s rich artistic, social, political, and
theological debates of the late 19th century, and in the context
of Ensor’s career.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Museum Studies on Art series, $17.95
paperback
New in August
Observations on the Letter of Monsieur Mariette with Thoughts
on Architecture, and a Preface to a New Treatise on the Introduction
and Progress of the Fine Arts in Europe in Ancient Times
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Introduction by John Wilton-Ely
Translation by Caroline Beamish and David Britt
This edition of the three-part polemical masterpiece is the first
installment in a trilogy of Texts & Documents volumes presenting
key sources in the 18th-century Graeco-Roman debate.
Getty Research Institute, Texts & Documents series, $35.00 paperback
New in August
Understanding Greek Vases: A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques
Andrew J. Clark, Maya Elston, and Mary Louise Hart
This indispensable guide is designed for students, scholars, and
anyone wishing to obtain a greater understanding and enjoyment of
Greek ceramics.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Looking At series, $14.95 paperback
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