Synopses & Reviews
In December 1997 the J. Paul Getty Museum will open its new home in the spectacular Getty Center, designed by the renowned architect Richard Meier, and dramatically sited in the Santa Monica Mountains above Los Angeles. This will constitute the third home for the Getty Museum collections, which were first displayed in J. Paul Getty's ranch house in Malibu and later were housed in the splendid reconstruction of an ancient Roman villa that Getty had built on the grounds of his Malibu estate.
This book contains a lively text by the Director and Associate Director of the Museum along with archival and recently commissioned photographs to provide a biography of the Museum's benefactor. In addition, the book presents a history of the buildings that have housed his collections and of the collections themselves--first formed by Getty in his lifetime and greatly expanded following his generous and much-heralded bequest.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Harold M. Williams
Introduction
I. Getty's Career and Fortune
II. Getty's Collection
III. The House-museum in Malibu
IV. The Roman Villa
V. The Getty Museum in a New Era
VI. The Getty Museum at the Getty Center
VII. The Villa in the Twenty-First Century
VIII. The Getty Museum's Collections
Afterword
Appendix 1: The Programs of the J. Paul Getty Trust
Appendix 2: Trustees and Senior Staff