Shin Maekawa is a senior scientist in the Scientific Program at the Getty Conservation Institute

This captivating account—lavishly illustrated with rarely reproduced objects—recovers the critical significance of the eighteenth-century cult of ruins and of Robert’s art for our times

This biography of Cameron draws on scholarly insights resulting from a thorough documentation of Cameron's surviving prints

The book also explores the impact of geography

She then took up research in conservation

Lucio Fontana: The Artist's Materials CAL Shin Maekawa is a seniorPia Gottschaller Lucio Fontana (18991968) is widely regarded as one of the most influential and innovative postWorld War II Italian artists. Best known for his taglislashed, mostly monochromatic canvasesFontana fashioned a remarkably multifaceted oeuvre that encompasses architecture, sculpture, and ceramics, as well as painting. In his quest to expand the vocabulary of his art, Fontana subjected the pictorial surface of his paintings to a remarkable