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Architecture

Traditional Farm Buildings and Their Conservation

Brunskill R. W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300123197, Yale University Press, June 2007
208 pp., 24.6x19 cm, 144 black&white illus.

Traditional designs for British farm buildings, including barns, mills, pigsties, cowsheds, dovecotes, and other types, originated in the Middle Ages and developed through the various agricultural revolutions, until the slump of the 1880s brought an...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Essex Buildings of England

Bettley James, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300116144, Yale University Press, May 2007
820 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

Essex is one the largest counties of England, stretching from the suburban fringes of East London to the fishing and sailing ports of Harwich and Maldon and the famous seaside resorts of Clacton, Frinton and Southend. Its buildings are appropriately...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Modern Patronage De Menil Gifts to American and European Museums

Brennan Marcia, Pacquement Alfred, Temkin Ann

ISBN: HB: 9780300123791, Yale University Press, May 2007
175 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 70 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

In the early 1940s, John and Dominique de Menil began to acquire art. Collecting in an intuitive and personal manner, the de Menils gathered "things in which we believe", as John phrased it, and proceeded to develop an inspired collection that would...

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Photography

Marshes The Disappearing Edens

Burt William

ISBN: HB: 9780300122299, Yale University Press, March 2007
160 pp., 23.5x19.1 cm, 92 colour illus.

Drawn since boyhood to the beauty and allure of marshes, naturalist William Burt has prowled them by day and night, in every season, from one edge of North America to the other. For thirty years, he has hauled his large-format camera with him, seekin...

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German

German Through Film

Borra Adriana, Mader-Koltay Ruth

ISBN: PB: 9780300109504, Yale University Press, January 2007
150 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

"German Through Film" is designed to be a flexible tool for teachers who strive towards content-based instruction and believe that learning a language should be meaningful and enjoyable. It is based on eight contemporary German films, all of which ar...

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History of Art

William Powell Frith Painting the Victorian Age

Bills Mark, Knight Vivien

ISBN: HB: 9780300121902, Yale University Press, December 2006
180 pp., 28.2x24.9 cm, colour illus.

William Powell Frith (1819-1909) was the greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth. His panoramas of the wide spectrum of nineteenth-century life broke new ground in their depiction of the diverse London crowd and are icons of their...

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Contemporary Art

Socrates Sculpture Park

Baker Alyson, Mestrovic Ivana, Di Suvero Mark, Hanrahan Thomas, Kastner Jeffrey, Sandler Irving

ISBN: HB: 9780300120981, Yale University Press, November 2006
256 pp., 28.6x22.9 cm, 175 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

Socrates Sculpture Park is one of the most acclaimed public art spaces in the country. The Park opened in 1986 and has been an outdoor studio to over 500 artists, a venue presenting more than 40 exhibitions of large-scale sculpture, and a vital park...

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Italian

Italian Through Film The Classics

Borra Antonello, Pausini Cristina

ISBN: PB: 9780300109528, Yale University Press, November 2006
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

"Italian Through Film: The Classics" is a flexible tool for teachers who strive towards content-based instruction and believe that learning a language should be meaningful and enjoyable. It is based around fifteen classic Italian films which are freq...

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History of Art

Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery

Boorsch Suzanne, Marciari John, Bensoussan Nicole, Clark Alvin L., Greenberg Susan, Hadley Margaret E., Hodermarsky Lisa, Hoisington Rena, Leja Jan, Munhall Edgar

ISBN: HB: 9780300114331, Yale University Press, October 2006
320 pp., 31.1x23.7 cm, 114 colour images, 116 black&white illus.

This beautiful and important book highlights the collection of European drawings at the Yale University Art Gallery, one of America's premier university museums. From intimate studies to exquisite finished compositions, this selection of works docume...

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History of Art

Lions, Dragons, and Other Beasts Aquamanilia of the Middle Ages - Vessels for Church and Table

Barnet Peter, Dandridge Pete

ISBN: HB: 9780300116847, Yale University Press, August 2006
256 pp., 28.9x24.9 cm, 100 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

This fascinating book explores the history, techniques and cultural significance of medieval aquamanilia, cast metal objects used to pour water for hand washing in religious and secular contexts. Usually created in appealing animal or human forms, aq...

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