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-## Quire Eleventy
+This is the repository for *Artists' Things*, by Katie Scott and Hannah Williams. This digital book was first published January 9, 2024, by the Getty Research Institute. It is available online at https://www.getty.edu/publications/artists-things/ and may be downloaded there free of charge in multiple formats.
 
-The [Quire Eleventy package](https://github.com/thegetty/quire/tree/main/packages/11ty) contains configuration and modules for the [Eleventy static site generator](https://11ty.dev). This package is published to npm as [`@thegetty/quire-11ty`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@thegetty/quire-11ty) and installed by the [`@thegetty/quire-cli`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@thegetty/quire-cli) to build [Quire](https://quire.getty.edu) projects.
+## About the Book
+
+Artists are makers of things. Yet it is a measure of the disembodied manner in which we generally think about artists that we rarely consider the everyday items they own. This innovative book looks at objects that once belonged to artists, revealing not only the fabric of the eighteenth-century art world in France but also unfamiliar—and sometimes unexpected—insights into the individuals who populated it, including Jean-Antoine Watteau, François Boucher, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, and Elisabeth Vigée-LeBrun.
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+From the curious to the mundane, from the useful to the symbolic, these items have one thing in common: they have all been eclipsed from historical view. Some of the objects still exist, like Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s color box and Jacques-Louis David’s table. Others survive only in paintings, such as Jean-Siméon Chardin’s cistern in his *Copper Drinking Fountain*, or in documents, like François Lemoyne’s sword, the instrument of his suicide. Several were literally lost, including pastelist Jean-Baptiste Perronneau’s pencil case. In this fascinating book, the authors engage with fundamental historical debates about production, consumption, and sociability through the lens of material goods owned by artists.
+
+## Using this Repository
+
+This is one in series of multiformat publications using [Quire](http://quire.getty.edu)™, Getty’s multiformat publishing tool. 
+
+We are dedicated to maintaining this publication for years to come at the permanent URL, https://www.getty.edu/publications/artists-things/, and in its various formats and incarnations. For any updates to the book, we will be following something between an app and traditional book publication model. Updates will only be made in regulated chunks as formal revisions and new editions and will always be thoroughly documented here in the repository, as well as in the revision history included with each of the book’s many formats.
+
+The primary content pieces of the book can be found in the `content` directory. The `main` branch represents the current, published edition at all times, and the `revisions` branch, when present, will show changes currently under consideration. We invite you to submit suggestions or corrections via pull request on the revisions branch, by posting an issue, or by emailing us at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).
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+## Development Notes
+
+This project was last built with the following software versions:
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+- Node 18.16.0
+- Quire CLI 1.0.0-rc.11
+
+### Branches
+
+| branch | about |
+| --- | --- |
+| `main` | The primary branch |
+| `first-pages`, `second-pages`, `final-pages`| Versions of the project at various staages |
+| `forthcoming` | A static placeholder page that was displayed at the book’s final URL on getty.edu prior to publication |
+| `revisions` | Any revisions currently under consideration but not yet published |
+
+### Figure Images Submodule
+
+Many of figure images for *Artists' Things* are licensed from third parties for use exclusively in this publication. As such, they are kept in a separate, private repository, https://github.com/thegetty/artists-things/, which is linked to this main publication repository as a submodule in `content/_assets/images/figures/`. When cloning this repo for further development, you’ll permissions for the private repository and will need to clone recursively in order to clone both the main repo and the submodule.
+
+```
+git clone --recursive https://github.com/thegetty/artists-things.git
+```
+
+### Previewing the Online Edition Locally
+
+1. Install Node.js 18.16.0 and verify with with `node --version`
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+2. Install the Quire CLI with `npm install -g @thegetty/[email protected]`
+
+3. Clone this repository and select the appropriate branch
+
+4. Run `npm install` to install the project dependencies (this just needs to be done once when first cloning the project, or whenever the core template/code files are updated)
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+5. Change the `url` in `content/_data/publication.yaml` to `http://localhost:8080/`
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+6. See the preview with `quire preview`
 
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+## License
+
+© 2024 J. Paul Getty Trust
+
+The text of this work is licensed under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License</a>. All images are reproduced with the permission of the rights holders acknowledged in captions and are expressly excluded from the CC BY-NC license covering the rest of this publication. These images may not be reproduced, copied, transmitted, or manipulated without consent from the owners, who reserve all rights.