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Contemporary Art

Nam June Paik Becoming Robot

Chiu Melissa, Yun Michelle, Digital Kenzo, Godfrey John, Hakuta Ken, Huffman Jon, Jankowski Christian, Joselit David, Maeda John, Kessler Jon

ISBN: PB: 9780300209211, Yale University Press, October 2014
224 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 140 colour illus.

This new, fully illustrated catalogue on the celebrated progenitor of video art, "Nam June Paik (1932-2006)", brings together a host of scholars, artists and Paik's own collaborators to illuminate the work of this innovative artist. An essay by curat...

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History of Art

Design

Grand Design Pieter Coecke Van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry

Cleland Elizabeth A. H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208054, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2014
400 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 350 colour illus.

Renowned throughout Renaissance Europe, Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502–1550) produced works for the wealthiest and most important patrons of the time, including Emperor Charles V, Francis I of France, Henry VIII of England, the Habsburgs, and Cosimo d...

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Contemporary Art

Make it New Abstract Painting from the National Gallery of Art, 1950-1975

Cooper Harry, Breslin David, Jolly Matt

ISBN: PB: 9780300207903, Yale University Press, October 2014
140 pp., 33x22.2 cm, 60 colour illus.

Featuring thirty-five outstanding abstract paintings made between 1950 and 1975 from the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, this fascinating book casts a new glance at a renowned period in the history of art, including works by Ly...

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Biography & Memoires

Susan Sontag The Complete Rolling Stone Interview

Cott Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780300199024, Yale University Press, October 2014
176 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Susan Sontag, one of the most internationally renowned and controversial intellectuals of the latter half of the twentieth century, still provokes. In 1979, Jonathan Cott, a founding contributing editor of Rolling Stone magazine, interviewed Sontag f...

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Culture Studies

Long March of Pop Art, Music, and Design, 1930-1995

Crow Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780300203974, Yale University Press, October 2014
448 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 160 colour images, 40 black&white illus.

Thomas Crow's paradigm-changing book challenges existing narratives about the rise of Pop Art by situating it within larger cultural tides. While American Pop was indebted to its British predecessor's insistence that any creative pursuit is worthy of...

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World

Global Rules America, Britain and a Disordered World

Cronin James E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300151480, Yale University Press, September 2014
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The Second World War created and the Cold War sustained a "special relationship" between America and Britain, and the terms on which that decades-long conflict ended would become the foundation of a new world order. In this penetrating analysis, a ne...

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History of Art

Sixteenth Century Netherlandish Paintings, with French Paintings Before 1600

Campbell Lorne

ISBN: HB: 9781857093704, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, July 2014
900 pp., 28.5x21.6 cm, 700 colour images, 175 black&white illus.

The National Gallery, London possesses an important collection of paintings by 16th-century Netherlandish artists, including Joachim Beuckelaer, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jean Gossart, and Quinten Massys. They are grouped here with...

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America

Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 41 September 16, 1783, through February 29, 1784

Cohn Ellen R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300203745, Yale University Press, July 2014
784 pp., 20.4x14.6 cm

After the signing of the definitive peace treaty on September 3, 1783, Franklin's official duties as minister plenipotentiary diminished. Great Britain refused to negotiate a commercial agreement, and Congress failed to act on the draft treaties of c...

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Christianity

"When You Were Gentiles" Specters of Ethnicity in Roman Corinth and Paul's Corinthian Correspondence

Concannon Cavan W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197938, Yale University Press, July 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Cavan W. Concannon makes a significant contribution to Pauline studies by imagining the responses of the Corinthians to Paul's letters. Based on surviving written materials and archaeological research, this book offers a textured portrait of the anci...

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History of Art

Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science, and Technology, Volume 2

Centeno Silvia A., Kennedy Nora, Manuels Marijn, Schorsch Deborah, Stone Richard E., Sun Zhixin Jason, Wypyski Mark T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300204391, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2014
256 pp., 27.3x22.9 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

This second volume of "Studies in Art, Science, and Technology" unites studies by scientists, curators and conservators, all of which are published here for the first time. Essays and technical notes address a variety of themes, such as connections b...

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