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Music in the Air The Selected Writings of Ralph J. Gleason

Gleason Ralph J., Gleason Toby, Wenner Jann, Scanlon Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300212167, Yale University Press, June 2016
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine, Ralph J. Gleason was among the most respected journalists, interviewers, and critics writing about popular music in the latter half of the twentieth century. As a longtime contributor to the San Francisco Chr...

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Contemporary Art

This is a Portrait If I Say So Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today

Goodyear Anne Collins, Walz Jonathan, Campagnolo Kathleen, Evans Dorinda

ISBN: HB: 9780300211931, Yale University Press, June 2016
264 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 107 colour illus.

This groundbreaking book traces the history of portraiture as a site of radical artistic experimentation, as it shifted from a genre based on mimesis to one stressing instead conceptual and symbolic associations between artist and subject. Featuring...

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Europe

General

Family Politics Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950

Ginsborg Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300219470, ISBN: HB: 9780300112115, Yale University Press, April 2016
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., images, 36 black&white illus.

In this masterly twentieth-century history, Paul Ginsborg places the family at centre stage, a novel perspective from which to examine key moments of revolution and dictatorship. His groundbreaking book spans 1900 to 1950 and encompasses five nation...

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History of Art

Van Gogh's Bedrooms

Groom Gloria, Tilborgh Louis van, Getsy David J., Fiedler Inge, Hendricks Ella, Meedendorp Teio, Menu Michel, Salvant Johanna

ISBN: HB: 9780300214864, Yale University Press, A+D Series, March 2016
176 pp., 30.5x23.5 cm, 130 colour illus.

Vincent van Gogh's The Bedroom, a painting of his room in Arles, is arguably the most famous depiction of a bedroom in the history of art. The artist made three versions of the work, now in the collections of the Van Gogh Museum, the Art Institute of...

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Contemporary Art

Everywhen The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia

Gilchrist Stephen, Khandekar Narayan, Myers Fred, Perkins Hetti, Skerritt Henry, Rowlands Shawn, Kirby Daniel, Rayner Georgina

ISBN: HB: 9780300214703, Yale University Press, February 2016
200 pp., 27.2x21.1 cm, 110 colour illus.

Indigenous concepts of time play a critical role in the works of many contemporary Australian artists. "Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia" showcases prime examples, featuring many works of art that have never before been...

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Literary Criticism

Revisiting Marie Vieux Chauvet: Paradoxes of the Postcolonial Feminine Yale French Studies, Number 128

Glover Kaiama, Benedicty-Kokken Alessandra, Vieux-Chauvet Marie

ISBN: PB: 9780300214192, Yale University Press, December 2015
168 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This issue considers the oeuvre of Haitian writer Marie Vieux-Chauvet (1916-1973) as a prism through which to examine individual and collective subject formation in the postcolonial French-writing Caribbean, the wider Afro-Americas, and beyond. While...

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History of Art

On Display Henrietta Maria and the Materials of Magnificence

Griffey Erin

ISBN: HB: 9780300214000, Yale University Press, December 2015
400 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 80 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

In the early modern period, rulers demonstrated their power and influence through carefully curated "display"-their presence in court ceremonies, their palaces and their contents, and their portraits. Henrietta Maria of France (1609-1669), queen cons...

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Evolution

Shaping Humanity How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins

Gurche John

ISBN: PB: 9780300216844, ISBN: HB: 9780300182026, Yale University Press, December 2015
368 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 163 colour illus.

What did earlier humans really look like? What was life like for them, millions of years ago? How do we know? In this book, internationally-renowned paleo-artist John Gurche describes the extraordinary process by which he creates forensically accurat...

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Middle East

Jewish Studies

Archaeology of Jerusalem From the Origins to the Ottomans

Galor Katharina, Bloedhorn Hanswulf

ISBN: PB: 9780300216622, Yale University Press, November 2015
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 colour images, 185 black&white illus.

In this sweeping and lavishly illustrated history, Katharina Galor and Hanswulf Bloedhorn survey nearly four thousand years of human settlement and building activity in Jerusalem, from prehistoric times through the Ottoman period. The study is struct...

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History of Art

Wilton Diptych

Gordon Dillian, Roy Ashok, Wyld Martin, Barron Caroline M.

ISBN: HB: 9781857095838, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2015
144 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 130 colour illus.

The Wilton Diptych is a comprehensive account of one of England's greatest surviving medieval treasures, now in the collection of The National Gallery, London. The painting depicts King Richard II (1367-1400) being presented to the Virgin Mary and Ch...

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