Getty Research Journal, No. 14

The Getty Research Journal presents peer-reviewed articles on the visual arts of all cultures, regions, and time periods. Topics relate to Getty collections, initiatives, and broad research interests. The journal welcomes a diversity of perspectives and methodological approaches and seeks to include work that expands narratives on global culture.

This issue features essays on a scientific examination of woven-gold fragments from the late Hellenistic and Roman periods; a new attribution of the J. Paul Getty Museums sixteenth-century bust of Duke Ottavio Farnese to Lombard-born sculptor Giovanni Battista della Porta; an anonymous seventeenth-century manuscript on collecting ancient coins and recognizing counterfeits; two nineteenth-century photographic albums and the stock photography market in 1860s Chile; douard Manets life-size Portrait of Madame Brunet and questions surrounding its sitter and early history; architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsners changing attitude about the work of Catalan architect Antoni Gaud in the 1950s and 1960s; and artist Allan Sekulas photographic projects and working method.

Shorter texts include notices on eighteenth-century cookbooks and the gastronomic influence of Huguenot immigrants in European circles; a conservators technical summary on the Getty Museums bust of Ottavio Farnese; Willard Morgans photographs of modern architect Richard Neutras Lovell House; and a handwritten, unfinished essay by critic Clement Greenberg on surrealist writer and theorist Andr Breton.

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224 pages
7 x 10 inches
108 color illustrations
ISBN 978-1-60606-746-8
ISSN 1944-8740
paperback

Getty Publications
Imprint: Getty Research Institute

2021