This revised and updated J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections includes many major objects that recently have been added to the collections, as well as the more familiar masterpieces frequent visitors have become acquainted with over the years from the antiquities, drawings, manuscripts, paintings, photographs, and sculpture and decorative arts holdings. Among the notable new accessions is a major collection of modern and contemporary sculpture, a 2005 gift from the Fran and Ray Stark Trust. Moreover, the new edition of the Handbook marks the historic moment at which the Museum commences operating on two sites simultaneously--the dazzling Getty Center on a hilltop in Brentwood and the magnificently re-imagined Getty Villa in Malibu, devoted to Western antiquities. Readers who have not been among the millions of visitors to the two sites will find this Handbook an inducement for paying a visit; for those who have seen the collections, it will help them recall the experience and enrich their recollection.
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
This guide is a satisfactory companion to any visit to the Getty Center in L.A., with many colored illustrations of the major works in the museum's collection, grouped by department (decorative art, drawings, paintings, prints, etc..)with a short and informative text. Just a few illustrated works from the collection: Renoir's La Promenade, Degas's Waiting (a quintessential dancer painting) Van Gogh's Irises, Goya's The Marquesa de Santiago, Rembrandt's Old Man in Military Costume, some major pieces of French XVIIIth century furniture (by BVRB, Dubois, Oeben, Martin Carlin), drawings by Holbein, Rembrandt, Rubens, Watteau, and many sculptures and works of art (silverware, porcelain, clocks, etc). However, I have to add that the main shortcoming of this guide is the fact that it may become outdated very soon, as the Getty is famous for its consequent acquisition budget and keeps buying new works regularly. I, myself, already bought three editions of this guide in about ten years...
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