The Silver Canvas

The Silver Canvas
Author: Bates Lowry
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2000-02-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892365366

By the middle of the nineteenth century, the most common method of photography was the daguerreotype—Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s miraculous invention that captured in a camera visual images on a highly polished silver surface through exposure to light. In this book are presented nearly eighty masterpieces—many never previously published—from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s extensive daguerreotype collection.

The Silver Gun

The Silver Gun
Author: L.A. Chandlar
Publisher: Kensington Books
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2017-08-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1496713427

A young Mayor’s assistant gets caught between Tammany Hall gangsters and her childhood nightmares in this mystery set in Depression Era New York. New York City, 1936.It’s been six months since Lane Sanders was appointed Mayor Fiorello “Fio” La Guardia’s new personal aide, and the twenty-three-year-old is sprinting in her Mary Janes to keep up. Managing endless revitalization efforts while combating the Tammany Hall political machine makes for long, unpredictable days. But the non-stop pace is a welcome distraction from the childhood memories that haunt her dreams—and the silver gun she’ll never forget. When Lane is attacked and threatened by one of the city’s most notorious gangsters, even the mayor can’t promise her safety. Corrupt city officials are using her as a pawn against Fio for disgracing their party in the prior election. But that doesn’t explain why her assailant wielding the same silver gun from her nightmares. Balancing a clandestine love affair and a mounting list of suspects, Lane must figure out how the secrets of her past are connected to the city’s underground crime network—before someone pulls the trigger on the most explosive revenge plot in New York history.

Phoenix in Obsidian

Phoenix in Obsidian
Author: Michael Moorcock
Publisher:
Total Pages: 127
Release: 1988
Genre: English fiction
ISBN: 9780583118002

Silver Gelatin

Silver Gelatin
Author: Martin Reed
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781902538150

A practical art book designed to comprehensively illustrate the use of liquid photographic emulsion, this book showcases the work of top photographers and artists, such as David Scheinmann, Chris Nash, Lana Wong, Melanie Manchot, Jennifer Bates, and Jane Quinn. A clear and concise technical guide, taking the reader through all the necessary steps to produce exciting images on a multitude of surfaces, including handmade paper, plaster, fabric, glass, ceramics, rubber, metal, painted surfaces, wood, plastics, and stone is also included.

Rough Work

Rough Work
Author: Frank Frazetta
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Drawing, American
ISBN: 9781599290133

Frank Frazetta has excelled in a wide variety of artistic formats, from fine art to paperback covers, comic books to record albums. His atmospheric worlds of sinewy superheroes, seductive sirens, and vivid monsters are wonderfully detailed, fully realized, and unmistakably his. This book gives fans an intimate glimpse of Frazetta's creative process by showcasing not only black-and-white and full-color drawings from his sketchbooks, but concept art as well, showing the artist's raw imagination and problem-solving skills. Printed on deluxe art paper and featuring personal and previously unpublished material, these “rough works†offer a fascinating look at how a modern master creates.

The Supermodel and the Brillo Box

The Supermodel and the Brillo Box
Author: Don Thompson
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2014-05-27
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1137464135

Acquiring contemporary art is about passion and lust, but it is also about branding, about the back story that comes with the art, about the relationship of money and status, and, sometimes, about celebrity. The Supermodel and the Brillo Box follows Don Thompson's 2008 bestseller The $12 Million Stuffed Shark and offers a further journey of discovery into what the Crash of 2008 did to the art market and the changing methods that the major auction houses and dealerships have implemented since then. It describes what happened to that market after the economic implosion following the collapse of Lehman Brothers and offers insights and art-world tales from dealers, auction houses, and former executives of each, from New York and London to Abu Dhabi and Beijing. It begins with the story of a wax, trophy-style, nude upper-body sculpture of supermodel Stephanie Seymour by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, which sold for $2.4 million to New York über-collector and private dealer Jose Mugrabi, and recounts the story of a wooden Brillo box that sold for $722,500. The Supermodel and the Brillo Box looks at the increasing dominance of Christie's, Sotheby's, and a few über dealers; the hundreds of millions of new museums coming up in cities like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Beijing; the growing importance of the digital art world; and the shrinking role of the mainstream gallery.

Conserving Canvas

Conserving Canvas
Author: Cynthia Schwarz
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2023-10-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1606068253

The most authoritative publication in nearly fifty years on the subject of conserving paintings on canvas. In 2019, Yale University, with the support of the Getty Foundation, held an international conference, where nearly four hundred attendees from more than twenty countries gathered to discuss a vital topic: how best to conserve paintings on canvas. It was the first major symposium on the subject since 1974, when wax-resin and glue-paste lining reigned as the predominant conservation techniques. Over the past fifty years, such methods, which were often destructive to artworks, have become less widely used in favor of more minimalist approaches to intervention. More recent decades have witnessed the reevaluation of traditional practices as well as focused research supporting significant new methodologies, procedures, and synthetic materials for the care and conservation of paintings on fabric supports. Conserving Canvas compiles the proceedings of the conference, presenting a wide array of papers and posters that provide important global perspectives on the history, current state, and future needs of the field. Featuring an expansive glossary of terms that will be an invaluable resource for conservators, this publication promises to become a standard reference for the international conservation community. The free online edition of this open-access publication is available at getty.edu/publications/conserving-canvas. Also available are free PDF and EPUB downloads of the book.