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History of Art

Gothic Sculpture Eloquence, Craft, and Materials

Binski Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300241433, Yale University Press, May 2019
296 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 100 colour illus.

In this beautifully illustrated study, Paul Binski offers a new account of sculpture in England and northwestern Europe between c. 1000 and 1500, examining Romanesque and Gothic art as a form of persuasion. Binski applies rhetorical analysis to a wid...

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Contemporary Art

Photography

Long Light Photographs by David Lebe

Barberie Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780876332887, Yale University Press, April 2019
144 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 120 colour and black&white illus.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, David Lebe (b. 1948) pushed the boundaries of photography, creating nuanced and visually complex images using innovative techniques. Often enhancing his prints with hand-coloring, Lebe made experimental pinhole photogr...

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History of Art

Vincent van Gogh His Life in Art

Bomford David, Bakker Nienke, Suijver Renske, Tervaert Renske Cohen, Aurisch Helga K., Minton Laura, Woodall Dena M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300243260, Yale University Press, April 2019
172 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 90 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.

"Vincent van Gogh: His Life in Art" surveys the artist's creative evolution across his short but influential career. The narrative begins with Van Gogh's drawings, which were the foundation of his early practice, and describes how he transitioned int...

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Political Science

Europe

Stalin's Master Narrative A Critical Edition of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), Short Course

Brandenberger David, Zelenov Mikhail V.

ISBN: HB: 9780300155365, Yale University Press, April 2019
760 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

"The Short Course on the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)" defined Stalinist ideology both at home and abroad. It was quite literally the the master narrative of the USSR – a hegemonic statement on history, politics, an...

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America

Our Beloved Kin A New History of King Philip's War

Brooks Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9780300244328, Yale University Press, April 2019
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the "First Indian War" (later named King Philip's War) by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a female Wam...

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History of Art

French Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art From the Early Eighteenth Century through the Revolution

Baetjer Katharine

ISBN: HB: 9781588396617, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2019
384 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 429 colour illus.

This authoritative book surveys the remarkable collection of 18th-century French paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the context of the institutions that governed the visual arts in the 1700s – the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculptu...

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Literary Criticism

Culture Studies

Promise of the Suburbs A Victorian History in Literature and Culture

Bilston Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780300179330, Yale University Press, March 2019
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Literature has, from the start of the nineteenth century, cast the suburbs as dull, vulgar, and unimaginative margins where, by definition, nothing important takes place. Sarah Bilston argues that such attitudes were forged to undermine the cultural...

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History of Art

Thomas Gainsborough The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies after Old Masters

Belsey Hugh

ISBN: SET: 9780300232097, Yale University Press, February 2019
1112 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 1300 colour and black&white illus.

Scholars and enthusiasts alike will revel in this ambitious two-volume catalogue raisonn of Thomas Gainsborough's portraits and copies of Old Master works. The catalogue contains approximately 1,100 paintings, including nearly 200 works newly attribu...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Cnut the Great

Bolton Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780300243185, ISBN: HB: 9780300208337, Yale University Press, February 2019
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

A seminal biography of the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire. Historian Timothy Bolton offers a fascinating reappraisal of one of th...

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Judaism

Anthropology

Bedouin Culture in the Bible

Bailey Clinton

ISBN: HB: 9780300121827, Yale University Press, January 2019
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

Written by one of the world's leading scholars of Bedouin culture, this groundbreaking book sheds new light on significant points of convergence between Bedouin and early Israelite cultures, as manifested in the Hebrew Bible. Bailey compares Bedouin...

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