Getty Research Journal, No. 4

TheGetty Research Journal showcases the remarkable original research underway at the Getty. Articles explore the rich collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and Research Institute, as well as the Research Institutes research projects and annual theme of its scholar program. Shorter texts highlight new acquisitions and discoveries in the collections and focus on the diverse tools for scholarship being developed at the Research Institute.

This issue includes essays by Scott Allan, Adriano Amendola, Valrie Bajou, Alessia Frassani, Alden R. Gordon, Natilee Harren, Sigrid Hofer, Christopher R. Lakey, Vimalin Rujivacharakul, and David Saunders; the short texts examine a Nuremberg festival book, translations of a seventeenth-century rhyming inventory, the print innovations of Maria Sibylla Merian, Karl Schneider’s Sears designs, Clement Greenberg’s copy of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, the Marcia Tucker papers, a mail art project by William Pope.L, the L.A. Art Girls’ reinvention of Allan Kaprow’s Fluids, and Jennifer Bornstein’s investigations into the archives of women performance artists.

Additional issues of the Getty Research Journal

250 pages
7 x 10 inches
62 color and 51 b/w illustrations
ISBN978-1-60606-113-8
ISSN 1944-8740
paperback

Getty Publications
Imprint: Getty Research Institute

2012