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Quarterly News Bulletin and Exhibition Schedule
Fall 2002
Table of Contents:
In This Issue
Exhibitions through November 2003
Getty News
Conservation
Education/Scholarship
Getty in Print
Getty Online
HOURS
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EXHIBITIONS AT THE GETTY CENTER
All exhibitions located in the J. Paul Getty Museum unless otherwise
indicated.
NOTE: As noted in the listings below, some exhibition information
has been revised to reflect schedule changes. All information presented
here is accurate at time of printing, but subject to change. Please
contact the Getty Communications Department (telephone 310-440-7360;
fax 310-440-7722; e-mail communications@getty.edu)
to confirm before publishing.
New Exhibitions Opening Fall 2002
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 Release
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 many artists attaining great technical ability and some even
achieving fame on the basis of their drawings alone. This exhibition
presents a survey of eighteenth-century French drawings from the
Getty 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.
Orazio Gentileschi in Genoa: Paintings for the Palazzo Sauli
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 more than 80 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 26, 2003 [new closing date]
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
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, Mycenae, Sparta, Delphi, and other landscapes of
myth.
Continuing Exhibitions and Installations
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
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 collaboration
between Forgács 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.”
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
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 1500 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, recently acquired
Roman gold beaker; 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
Mise en Page: The Art of Composing on Paper
December 17, 2002-March 2, 2003 [new closing date]
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 four centuries.
Special Exhibition
Bill Viola: The Passions
January 28-April 27, 2003
Note: new opening date
In The Passions, 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. Also included in the exhibition
is Five Angels for the Millennium, a recent video/sound installation
of the kind that made Viola famous; it has tremendous symbolic and
emotional power.
Five Hundred Years of Manuscript Illumination (working title)
February 11-June 1, 2003 [new exhibition dates]
This exhibition of 23 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 literature and law from throughout Western
Europe and the Mediterranean basin dating from the 11th to the 15th
century. T’oros Roslin, the Master of the Ingeborg Psalter,
Taddeo Crivelli, and Jean Bourdichon are among the illuminators
represented.
Surrealist Muse: Lee Miller, Roland Penrose, and Man Ray, 1925-1945
February 25-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 incorporated surrealism even when she was
working in portraiture, fashion, and journalism.
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
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.
Special Exhibition
Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828): Sculptor to the Enlightenment
November 4, 2003-January 25, 2004
Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828) was one of the most prominent and
versatile sculptors in 18th-century France, and his accomplishments
as a portraitist were almost unparalleled. He represented most of
the famous figures of his day, capturing their essential spirit
as well as their physical appearance. Houdon created the iconic
images of such early American statesmen as Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin
Franklin, and George Washington, and established the authoritative
portraits of leading personalities of the French Enlightenment,
including François Voltaire, Denis Diderot, and Jean-Jacques
Rousseau. In his depictions of close friends and family, and particularly
in his busts of children, Houdon achieved a sense of spontaneous,
unguarded naturalism that was one of the most original expressions
of 18th-century sensibility. The exhibition is organized by the
National Gallery of Art, Washington, in association with the J.
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and the Musée national du
château de Versailles, Versailles/Réunion des musées
nationaux, France. It will include Houdon's early works, garden
statues, and over 40 portraits in terracotta, plaster, bronze, and
marble. A scholarly catalogue will be published in conjunction with
the exhibition.
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NEWS AROUND THE GETTY
CONSERVATION
China Principles team to return to China
In September, team members from the China Principles project—designed
to develop and promote national guidelines for the conservation
and management of cultural heritage sites in China—will convene
at the Mogao grottoes near Dunhuang, to further develop the visitor
carrying capacity study and management plan for the site. The project
is a collaboration of the Australian Heritage Commission, the Getty
Conservation Institute, and the State Administration for Cultural
Heritage, China. At Mogao, team members will focus on lighting in
the caves and microenvironmental factors in wall painting deterioration.
The project team will then travel to the Qing Dynasty Imperial Summer
Resort at Chengde to work further on conservation plans for the
Wenjinge Library and Shuxiang Temple using the methodology set forth
in the Principles.
Wall painting conservation to continue at Mogao grottoes
The conservation of wall paintings at the Mogao grottoes near Dunhuang
in northwestern China—a collaboration of the Getty Conservation
Institute with the Dunhuang Academy, under the State Administration
for Cultural Heritage in China—continues with a six-week campaign
beginning in September. The focus will be the continuation of grouting
and poulticing in Cave 85 to reattach the painted clay plaster to
the rock of the cave and to remove soluble salts. In addition, analytical
work to map the spatial distribution of salts in the cave will be
completed, and microenvironmental data within the cave will be further
assessed and compared with data from caves in the visitor carrying
capacity research study, to provide an understanding of deterioration
processes.
Conservation of Maya stairway to enter new phase
The development of a conservation plan for the hieroglyphic stairway
at the Maya site of Copán, Honduras—a collaboration
of the Getty Conservation Institute and the Instituto Hondureño
de Antropología e Historia—continues with a three-week
campaign in September. During this campaign, team members will begin
in situ mortar treatment trials while continuing to work on treatment
for the stairway’s stone blocks. To evaluate potential causes
of decay, a comparative analysis of the stairway condition will
also be completed using historical photographs of selected stones.
Additionally, to assist with maintenance and upkeep, a partial netting
system will be installed and evaluated for its effectiveness in
protecting the stairway from debris and in preventing animals from
nesting among the stones.
Campus Heritage Preservation Initiative funds architectural preservation
needs
The Getty Grant Program awarded more than $1.5 million in grants
to support the architectural preservation needs of historic buildings,
sites, and landscapes on college and university campuses across
the United States as part of its Campus Heritage Preservation Initiative.
Newly launched, the initiative provides funds for activities that
help colleges and universities identify, assess, and plan for the
preservation of their significant historic resources. This year’s
nine grantees represent a broad range of institutions, from small
liberal arts colleges to major research universities. Their projects,
which include a preservation plan for Spelman College in Atlanta,
Georgia, a landscape conservation plan of the University of California,
Berkeley, a conservation plan for a group of historic buildings
on the campus of Salve Regina in Newport, Rhode Island, and preservation
guidelines for Modernist buildings at the University of Chicago,
are all dedicated to protecting the irreplaceable history and heritage
of their individual campuses. A list of the grant recipients and
additional information will be available online at
www.getty.edu/grants.
First grant to support Antarctic heritage preservation
New Zealand’s Antarctic Heritage Trust has received a Getty
grant of $238,000 NZD (approximately $114,000 USD) to support the
development of detailed conservation plans for historic exploration
sites in the Ross Sea region of Antarctica. The grant will enable
the Trust to analyze and prepare conservation plans for the Discovery
and Terra Nova huts constructed by Robert Falcon Scott’s 1902
and 1911 expeditions, as well as for structures built by Norwegian
explorer Carsten Borchgrevink during his groundbreaking 1899 journey.
The Trust’s analysis and protection of these sites will complement
research currently underway or in development on other highly significant
sites in the region, including those of the Shackleton and Amundsen
expeditions. Preservation work is particularly challenging in Antarctica
due to the remoteness of the sites, difficultly in transportation
and logistics, extreme climate, and the abbreviated season in which
work can be accomplished. The long-term goal of the Antarctic Heritage
Trust is to stabilize the structures and their contents on behalf
of the international community and to develop preservation strategies
to protect unique artifacts of the “Heroic Age” of Antarctic
exploration.
Endowment grants announced for conservation training
Buffalo State University, New York University, and the University
of Delaware were each awarded $500,000, a total of $1.5 million,
by the Getty Grant Program to strengthen their respective training
programs for the conservation of works of art. Collectively, these
three institutions have played a leading role in the training of
conservators for over 25 years, educating more than 650 students
who now not only form the majority of conservators in museums, archives,
and libraries in the United States, but are in practice abroad as
well. In addition to supporting their existing programs, the funds
will assist these institutions in establishing capability in new
program areas such as natural history museums and electronic media.
Retreat to be held for conservation education
The Getty Conservation Institute, in partnership with the American
Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC),
will hold a retreat October 10 through 12 at the Airlie Center in
Virginia for directors of U.S. conservation training programs and
institutions providing conservation training. Representatives from
the AIC board and staff will also attend. Topics scheduled for discussion
include the evolving state of conservation, the professional role
of conservators, and their relation to continuing education. This
event is the first in a series of retreats developed by the GCI
to enhance conservation education. It will assist in the development
of a program for continuing education for conservators, launched
by the AIC with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Mosaics maintenance training to be offered in Tunisia
The Getty Conservation Institute, as part of its Mosaics in Situ
project, is working with the Institute National du Patrimonie in
Tunisia to implement practical training in the care and maintenance
of in situ archeological mosaics. This October, a 12-week course
with trainees primarily from the central region of Tunisia will
begin at the site of Makhtar. Using the curriculum developed in
2001, this campaign will focus on documentation—enabling trainees
to record the condition of a mosaic and to plan maintenance interventions.
Successive campaigns will provide training in cleaning and stabilization
interventions using lime-based mortars. This training is part of
a national strategy to create teams of maintenance technicians to
work on mosaics at sites in different regions of the country.
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EDUCATION/SCHOLARSHIP
Curatorial research fellowships awarded to museum curators
For the third year, the Getty Grant Program awarded fellowships
to support the professional scholarly development of museum curators.
This year’s fellowships will allow 11 curators from four countries
to have time off from their regular responsibilities to undertake
short-term research or study projects. The topics they will investigate
range from African influence in early 20th-century French fashion
to the work of 19th-century French painter Anne Louis Girodet, and
from metal devotional images in South India to the critical writings
of Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg. Additional information
about curatorial research fellowships is available online at
www.getty.edu/grants.
Grant Program announces postdoctoral fellowships
The Getty Grant Program recently awarded 15 postdoctoral fellowships
to scholars from Argentina, France, Italy, Russia, and the United
States to pursue independent research projects in the field of art
history. Awarded through an open competition, the fellowships free
these scholars from academic and administrative responsibilities
at a crucial point early in their careers, when professional expectations
are high but research time is extremely limited. The projects of
this year’s fellows include: medieval Armenian manuscripts,
the art of Baroque New Spain, and the paintings of Barnett Newman.
Additional information about postdoctoral fellowships is available
online at www.getty.edu/grants.
Collaborative research grants to support diverse range of projects
Six collaborative research grants totaling over $1.1 million were
awarded to support a diverse group of collaborative research projects
in the history of art. Some of the projects represent the Getty
Grant Program’s continuing support for the research and planning
of scholarly exhibitions, including “Patterns and Reconfiguration
in Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) Art and Architecture: The Wu
Family Altars and Shrines,” which will examine the pictorial
relief carvings of the Wu family cemetery, located in Shandong province
and a key site for the study of Chinese antiquity, and “The
Domestic Interior in Italy, 1400-1600,” which will draw from
the rich collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum to trace
the development of the Renaissance house, its contents, and the
role of domestic life in the period. Additional information about
collaborative research grants is available online at
www.getty.edu/grants.
Getty to host College Art Association career development workshop
The Getty Research Institute will cosponsor a regional career development
workshop and seminar of the College Art Association at the Getty
Center on November 2, 2002. The all-day workshop, which consists
of guidance and discussion sessions for arts administrators, academics,
and graduate students in art history and studio art, will culminate
in an evening presentation by successful arts professionals, including
Getty Research Institute director Thomas Crow, who will engage in
conversation with each other and the audience about the nature of
their careers in the arts.
Getty Research Institute to hold consortium seminar this winter
The Getty Research Institute begins a new annual seminar this December.
Twelve graduate students in art history from a consortium of five
regional universities (the Universities of California at Riverside,
Irvine, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles and the University of Southern
California) will be selected to attend the seminar, to be led this
year by Sally Stein, associate professor of art history at the University
of California, Irvine. The inaugural seminar topic is “Biography
in Visual Studies: Contested Theories and Practices,” which
coincides with the Research Institute’s 2002-2003 theme of
biography.
The California International Arts Foundation grant to survey
L.A. avant-garde art
The California International Arts Foundation was recently granted
$24,700 by the Getty Grant Program to survey archival materials
dealing with Los Angeles avant-garde art of the 1950s-1980s. The
Foundation is dedicated to raising the visibility of the arts and
artists of California through exhibitions, films, and publications.
The grant will support the baseline survey of archival materials
in both public collections and private hands to begin to make these
materials more accessible to scholars. Research will focus on the
records of artists, collectors, museums, curators, dealers, critics
and journalists from this critical period in the growth of art and
institutions in Los Angeles, and will also locate materials at less
well-known public repositories. Support for the project reflects
a collaborative effort on the part of the Getty Grant Program and
Getty Research Institute to document the history of Los Angeles’
development of an independent art community in the decades after
World War II.
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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:
New!
Gustave Le Gray
1820-1884
Sylvie Aubenas
With contributions by Anne Cartier-Bresson, Joachim Bonnemaison,
Barthélémy Jobert, Claude Schopp, Mercedes Volait,
and Henri Zerner
This complete retrospective offers, as no volume before it, an assessment
of Le Gray’s important place in the history of photography.
J. Paul Getty Museum, $100 hardcover, $50 paperback
Coming in September
Alexander the Great
Son of the Gods
Alan Fildes and Joann Fletcher
This book is an engrossing biography of the legendary man, with
illustrations of ancient art from museums around the world.
J. Paul Getty Museum, $24.95 hardcover
Coming in September
Elementary Instructions for Students of Sculpture
Francesco Carradori
Translated by Matti Kalevi Auvinen
Preface by Paolo Bernardini
This book is a translation of Carradori’s 1802 introduction
to studio practices for sculpture students, long considered vital
to understanding the art and craft of sculpting as practiced before
the 20th century.
J. Paul Getty Museum, $40 hardcover
Coming in September
Greece! Rome! Monsters!
John Harris
Illustrated by Calef Brown
This jazzy picture book tells the stories of 20 creepy mythological
creatures—from harpies to Medusa to the fire-breathing Chimaera—with
eye-popping illustrations by Calef Brown. Ages 9 and up.
J. Paul Getty Museum, $16.95 hardcover
Coming in September
Houses and Monuments of Pompeii
The Work of Fausto and Felice Niccolini
Preface by Stefano de Caro
Essays and commentaries by Roberto Cassanelli, Pier Luigi Ciapparelli,
Enrico Colle, and Massimiliano David
This publication reproduces, with commentary, the first work to
present completely and systematically all the public and private
buildings so far excavated in Pompeii.
J. Paul Getty Museum, $75 hardcover
Coming in September
Israel: Past and Present
D. Bahat
Beginning with a brief history of the region, this book features
overlays of Jerusalem throughout the ages, including important religious
sites and famed archaeological ruins.
$22.50 paperback
Coming in September
Jordan: Past and Present
Petra, Jerash, Amman
E. Borgia
This publication presents ancient monuments of Petra, Jerash, and
Amman as they exist today with overlays showing how they likely
looked when still intact.
$22.50 paperback
Coming in September
Robert Irwin Getty Garden
Lawrence Weschler
Garden photography by Becky Cohen
This book offers a lively account of what artist Robert Irwin has
playfully termed "a sculpture in the form of a garden aspiring
to be art."
J. Paul Getty Museum, $45 hardcover
Coming in September
Ruins of Ancient Rome
The Designs of the French Architects Who Won the Prix de Rome 1786-1924
Edited by Massimiliano David
Preface by Filippo Coarelli
This book presents some of the most extraordinarily handsome drawings
of the ruins of ancient Rome.
J. Paul Getty Museum, $75 hardcover
Coming in October
Early Cyprus
Crossroads of the Mediterranean
Vassos Karageorghis
This book presents a comprehensive panorama of two periods of Cypriote
archaeology—the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1600-1150 B.C.) and the
Geometric and Archaic periods (ca. 1050-500 B.C.).
J. Paul Getty Museum, $70 hardcover
Coming in October
In Focus: Dorothea Lange
Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
This volume examines the life and career of Dorothea Lange (1895@1865),
who is most recognized for her social documentary work during the
Great Depression of the 1930s.
J. Paul Getty Museum, In Focus Series, $17.50 paperback
Coming in October
The Lost World of Pompeii
Colin Amery and Brian Curran, Jr.
This book covers such topics as the history of the city, the discovery
of the remains, the town plan, the private life of Pompeii, Pompeii’s
design legacy, and the site today, with more than 150 new photographs.
J. Paul Getty Museum, $45 hardcover
Coming in October
Seeing Venice
Bellotto's Grand Canal
Essay by Mark Doty
This publication highlights delightful details from Bellotto's great
painting, with a lyrical essay by noted American poet Mark Doty.
J. Paul Getty Museum, $14.95 hardcover
Coming in November
Ancient Greek and Roman Sculpture in the National Archaeological
Museum, Athens
Nikolaos Kaltsas
This catalogue presents all the sculptures on display in what is
undoubtedly the most important collection of ancient Greek sculptures
in the world.
J. Paul Getty Museum, $100 hardcover
Coming in November
Management Planning for Archaeological Sites
Proceedings of the Corinth Workshop
Edited by Gaetano Palumbo and Jeanne Marie Teutonico
This book reports on a workshop where an international group of
professionals discussed challenges faced by archaeological sites
in the Mediterranean and examined management planning methods that
might generate effective conservation strategies.
Getty Conservation Institute, Symposium Proceedings series, $35
paperback
Coming in November
Marquetry
Pierre Ramond
Translated by Jacqueline Derenne, Claire Emili, and Brian Considine
An invaluable resource on the history and techniques of marquetry,
this publication covers the materials, instruments, drawing, preparation,
and procedures used in the craft.
J. Paul Getty Museum, $75 hardcover
Coming in November
World Rock Art
Jean Clottes
This book presents an engaging overview of this oldest form of artistic
endeavor, with splendid examples of rock art on all continents and
from all eras.
Getty Conservation Institute, Conservation and Cultural Heritage
series, $29.95 paperback
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