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History of Art

Essential Duchamp

Affron Matthew, Debray Cecile, Kauffman Alexander, Taylor Michael R., Vick John

ISBN: PB: 9780300233117, Yale University Press, December 2018
200 pp., 24.8x18.9 cm, 182 colour and black&white illus.

This richly illustrated publication explores the full career of the hugely influential and endlessly fascinating French-American artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). A pioneer whose creative output was predicated on a fundamental questioning of what ar...

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History of Art

Cezanne's Gravity

Armstrong Carol

ISBN: HB: 9780300232714, Yale University Press, November 2018
296 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 108 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.

A transformative study, freeing the artist from outdated art historical narratives and revealing his work as newly strange again C zanne's Gravity is an ambitious reassessment of the paintings of Paul C zanne (1839-1906). Whereas previous studies hav...

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Contemporary Art

M. Pablo's Holidays Picasso in Antibes Juan-les-Pins, 1920-1946

Andral Jean-Louis, McCully Marilyn, Raeburn Michael, Cowling Elizabeth, Philippot Emilia

ISBN: HB: 9780300243604, Yale University Press, October 2018
144 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.

Picasso began to spend his summer holidays in Antibes Juan-les-Pins in 1920, returning most summers to the Cote d'Azur until the outbreak of war. During those years, he produced paintings and drawings of the villas where he stayed with his family, as...

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Ancient World

Enraged Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths

Anhalt Emily Katz

ISBN: PB: 9780300239966, ISBN: HB: 9780300217377, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 21x14 cm

Millennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer's "Iliad", Euripides' "Hecuba", and Sophocles' "Ajax" show that anger and vengeance destroy perpetrators and victims alike. Composed bef...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Palmyra Mirage in the Desert

Aruz Joan

ISBN: PB: 9781588396310, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2018
160 pp., 25.4x20 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.

In this important and timely publication, top international scholars present current research and developments about the art, archaeology, and history of the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Syria. Palmyra became tragi...

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Asia

End of the Asian Century War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region

Auslin Michael R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300239980, ISBN: HB: 9780300212228, Yale University Press, October 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

An urgently needed "risk map" of the many dangers that could derail Asia's growth and stability Since Marco Polo, the West has waited for the "Asian Century". Today, the world believes that Century has arrived. Yet from China's slumping economy to wa...

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Contemporary Art

Frank Stella Unbound Literature and Printmaking

Abbaspour Mitra, Brown Calvin, Cooke Erica

ISBN: HB: 9780300236996, Yale University Press, August 2018
112 pp., 27.9x24.8 cm, 105 colour illus.

Focusing on the vital role of literature in the development of the artistic practice of Frank Stella (b. 1936), this insightful book looks at four transformative series of prints made between 1984 and 1999. Each of these series is named after a liter...

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Contemporary Art

Lee Lozano Not Working

Applin Jo

ISBN: HB: 9780300223279, Yale University Press, July 2018
192 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 108 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

An illuminating study of an overlooked artist from the 1960s whose work has recently returned to the limelight This is the first in-depth study of the idiosyncratic ten-year career of Lee Lozano (1930-1999), assuring this important artist a key place...

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Europe

One Hot Summer Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858

Ashton Rosemary

ISBN: PB: 9780300238662, Yale University Press, July 2018
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

<p>While 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the sewage-filled Thames River, the year is otherwise little remembered. And yet, historian Rosemary Ashton reveals in this compelling microhist...

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Literary Criticism

Name Me a Word Indian Writers Reflect on Writing

Alexander Meena

ISBN: PB: 9780300222586, Yale University Press, June 2018
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A major reexamination of the father of the Hudson River School in relation to his European roots and travels Thomas Cole (1801-1848), arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his generation, is presented here in a new light: as an internati...

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