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| Size | | Length: | 288 pages | | Height: | 12.5 in | | Width: | 9.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 58.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
The vast resources of the J. Paul Getty Museum heir to its namesake's oil fortune, and with an endowment exceeding $3 billion the world's richest museum have rapidly propelled what was once a modest collection into what will be one of the nation's best when the multipurpose Getty Center opens this month. Congruent with this milestone, the museum has published an attractive book, half a history of the young institution and half a guide to its quickly growing collections. In recent years, the museum has concentrated on buying large existing collections. This book showcases some of these big-ticket purchases of ancient sculpture and photography, as well as paintings (by van Gogh, Degas, and Renoir) that came with multimillion-dollar price tags in the notoriously inflated art market of the 1980s. Director Walsh and Chief Curator Gribbon contribute short, lively essays describing their collections and programs, but the bulk of the pages are given to artworks reproduced in large, beautiful illustrations. A major new title; for all collections. [For an account of building the new Getty Museum, see Richard Meier's Building the Getty, reviewed on p. 98. Ed.] Douglas F. Smith, Oakland P.L., Cal.
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