Fall 2019 Getty Publications Getty Publications 1 Fall 2019 GettyPublications J. Paul Getty Museum Getty Research Institute Getty Conservation Institute To Order INDIVIDUALS BOOKSTORES Visit your local bookstore or call: 800 621-2736 (US and Canada) 800 223-3431 (North America) (44) 020 7079 4900 (UK and Europe) 310 440-7059 (International) https://shop.getty.edu [email protected] Connect with Us www.getty.edu/publications Dora Maar Edited by Damarice Amao, Amanda Maddox, and Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska DAMARICE AMAO is assis- For the first time, a comprehensive exploration of Dora Maar’s enigmatic photog- E-Newsletter tant curator of photography at the Centre Pompidou—Musée raphy reveals her as an extraordinary and influential artist in her own right For information about Getty Publications and future titles, National d’Art Moderne, Paris. sign up for Art Bound, our monthly e-newsletter: https://community.getty.edu AMANDA MADDOX is associate Dora Maar (born Henriette Théodora Markovitch, 1907–1997) was active at the curator in the Department of height of Surrealism in France. She was recognized as a key member of the movement Photographs at the J. Paul Getty and maintained professional relationships with many of its prominent figures, such as AREA SALES RESTRICTIONS Museum. André Breton, Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Man Ray. However, her standing as OBE World rights except United Kingdom and Commonwealth KAROLINA ZIEBINSKA- the one-time muse and mistress of Pablo Picasso—his famous “Weeping Woman”— COBE Not for sale in Commonwealth except Canada LEWANDOWSKA is curator of has long eclipsed her creative output and minimized her influence. COBEE Not for sale in Commonwealth and Europe except Canada photography at the Centre Pompidou—Musée National Richly illustrated with 240 key works showcasing Maar’s inimitable acumen as USA For sale in the United States and its dependencies only d’Art Moderne, Paris. a photographer, this book examines the full arc of her career for the very first time. NAO For sale in North America only Subjects include her innovative commercial and fashion photography, approach to EXHIBITION the nude and eroticism, engagement with political groups, interest in socially con- Centre Pompidou cerned photography, affiliation with the Surrealist movement, and hitherto unknown Paris, France work from her reclusive late career, providing a dynamic and multifaceted examina- June 5–July 29, 2019 tion of an important artist. Tate Modern London, United Kingdom J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM November 19, 2019– 208 pages, 9 × 11¼ inches March 15, 2020 240 color illustrations ISBN 978-1-60606-629-4, hardcover J. Paul Getty Museum US $40.00 T The Getty Center April 21–July 26, 2020 DECEMBER NAO Photography Cover image: Miguel Covarrubias (Mexican, 1904–1957), The Lindy Hop, probably 1936. Lithograph. San Marino, the Huntington Art Collections, 2012.4. Photo: Courtesy of the Huntington Art Collections, San Marino, California. © María Elena Rico Covarrubias. From True Grit: American Prints from 1900 to 1950 by Stephanie Schrader, James Glisson, and Alexander Nemerov, see page 4. 2 Getty Publications Getty Publications 3 Fall 2019 Fall 2019 Activity-Based Teaching Don’t Let the Beasties in the Art Museum Escape This Book! Movement, Embodiment, Emotion Julie Berry Illustrated by April Lee Elliott Kai-Kee, Lissa Latina, and Lilit Sadoyan JULIE BERRY is author of the ELLIOTT KAI-KEE is a long- 2017 Printz Honor Book The It’s no ordinary day at the castle! This beautifully illustrated picture book is a fun This groundbreaking book explores why and how to encourage physical and time education specialist at the Passion of Dolssa, set in medieval introduction to the medieval world and the illuminated bestiary J. Paul Getty Museum. He is the sensory engagement with works of art France; the Carnegie Medal coauthor, with Rika Burnham, and Edgar Award shortlisted Young Godfrey and his family toil for the lord and lady of the castle. But when Godfrey of Teaching in the Art Museum: novel All the Truth That’s in Me; An essential resource for museum professionals, teachers, and students, the award- stumbles upon an unfinished Book of Beasts, its splendid pictures of animals make Interpretation as Experience winning Teaching in the Art Museum (Getty Publications, 2011) set a new standard in humorous middle-grade novels, (Getty Publications, 2011) and including The Emperor’s Ostrich him forget his chores. He invents the story of a brave knight, Sir Godfrey the Glorious, the field of gallery education. This follow-up book blends theory and practice to help was named Museum Educator and The Scandalous Sisterhood of who battles a lion, tames a unicorn, defeats a griffin, conquers a bonnacon, and tri- of the Year, Pacific Division, educators—from teachers and docents to curators and parents—create meaningful Prickwillow Place; and the picture umphs over a dragon. Godfrey does not realize that each time he says the name of by the National Art Education book Long Ago on a Silent Night. interpretive activities for children and adults. an animal, it magically emerges from the book, causing mayhem and inadvertently Association in 2007. Written by a team of veteran museum educators, Activity-Based Teaching in the Art APRIL LEE is an illustrator, accomplishing his chores. LISSA LATINA was a gallery Museum offers diverse perspectives on embodiment, emotions, empathy, and mind- character animator, and 2D Written by award-winning author Julie Berry, and featuring fantastical illustra- docent and educator at the special effects animator fulness to inspire imaginative, spontaneous interactions that are firmly grounded in tions by April Lee, this children’s book also contains engaging back matter with infor- J. Paul Getty Museum from history and theory. The authors begin by surveying the emergence of activity-based who works for several major 2012 to 2016 and at the television and film studios. Her mation on life in the Middle Ages and a mini-bestiary showing animals from original teaching in the 1960s and 1970s and move on to articulate a theory of play as the Los Angeles County Museum animated e-book The Dragon thirteenth-century manuscripts. Don’t Let the Beasties Escape This Book! brings the of Art from 2006 to 2008. cornerstone of their innovative methodology. The volume is replete with sidebars and the Pixies earned honorable Middle Ages, legendary beasts, and the medieval imagination to life. describing activities facilitated with museum visitors of all ages. mentions at the London Book LILIT SADOYAN has worked as Festival and the Los Angeles a gallery educator at the J. Paul Ages five and up Book Festival. Getty Museum since 2008. J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM Please note that this title is distributed and sold in North America by ABRAMS, New York. She has served as a coordinator 160 pages, 7 × 10 inches 43 color illustrations of curatorial initiatives at the J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM ISBN 978-1-60606-617-1, paperback Los Angeles County Museum 36 pages, 8 × 10 inches ISBN 978-1-60606-633-1, e-book of Art since 2016 and as a 27 color illustrations US $30.00 X, UK £25.00 curatorial research assistant ISBN 978-1-947440-04-3, hardcover and lecturer at the Huntington JANUARY US $17.99 T, UK £13.99 Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens since 2012. Art Education SEPTEMBER Children’s 4 Getty Publications Getty Publications 5 Fall 2019 Fall 2019 True Grit Käthe Kollwitz American Prints from 1900 to 1950 Prints, Process, Politics Stephanie Schrader, James Glisson, and Alexander Nemerov Edited by Louis Marchesano STEPHANIE SCHRADER is LOUIS MARCHESANO is former curator of drawings at the J. Paul An engaging look at early twentieth-century American printmaking, which curator of prints and drawings This collection explores Kollwitz’s most creative years, examining her sequences Getty Museum. frequently focused on the crowded, chaotic, and “gritty” modern city at the Getty Research Institute, of images, with a focus on the tension between making and meaning JAMES GLISSON is interim and now the Audrey and Virginia Steele Scott Chief In the first half of the twentieth century, a group of American artists influenced by William H. Helfand Senior German printmaker Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) is known for her unapologetic social Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Curator of American Art the painter and teacher Robert Henri aimed to reject the pretenses of academic fine and political imagery; her representations of grief, suffering, and struggle; and her Photographs at the Philadelphia at the Huntington Library, Art art and polite society. Embracing the democratic inclusiveness of the Progressive equivocal ideas about artistic and political labels. This volume explores Kollwitz’s Collections, and Botanical Museum of Art. Gardens. movement, these artists turned to making prints, which were relatively inexpensive obsessive printmaking experiments and the evolution of her images, and assesses to produce and easy to distribute. For their subject matter, the artists mined the bus- the unusually rich progressions of preparatory drawings, proofs, and rejected images ALEXANDER NEMEROV is EXHIBITION Carl and Marilynn Thoma tling activity and stark realities of the urban centers in which they lived and worked. Getty Research Institute behind Kollwitz’s compositions of struggling workers, rebellious peasants, and griev- Provostial Professor in the Arts Their prints feature sublime towering skyscrapers and stifling city streets, jazzy dance The Getty Center ing mothers. and Humanities at the halls and bleak tenement interiors—intimate and anonymous everyday scenes that December 3, 2019– This selected catalogue of the Dr. Richard A. Simms collection at the Getty Research March 29, 2020 Department of Art and Art addressed modern life in America. Institute provides a bird’s-eye view of Kollwitz’s sequences of images as well as the History at Stanford University. True Grit examines a rich selection of prints by well-known figures like George The Art Institute of Chicago interrelationships among prints produced over multiple years.