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Drawing Redefined Roni Horn, Esther Klas, Joelle Tuerlinckx, Richard Tuttle and Jorinde Voigt

Gross Jennifer R., Butler Cornelia H., Chaffee Cathleen, Roberts Veronica, Sullivan Lexi Lee

ISBN: HB: 9780300215915, Yale University Press, November 2015
88 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 60 colour illus.

"Drawing Redefined" offers an original, critical look at the distinctive role drawing plays in the processes of five influential contemporary artists. For Roni Horn, Esther Klas, Joelle Tuerlinckx, Richard Tuttle, and Jorinde Voigt drawing is an esse...

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Contemporary Art

Abstract Bodies Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender

Getsy David J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300196757, Yale University Press, October 2015
392 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 50 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

Original and theoretically astute, "Abstract Bodies" is the first book to apply the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies to the discipline of art history. It recasts debates around abstraction and figuration in 1960s art through a discussio...

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History of Art

Gates of the Lord The Tradition of Krishna Paintings

Ghose Madhuvanti, Ambalal Amit, Krishna Kalyan, Lyons Tryna, Shah Anita, Bachrach Emilia

ISBN: HB: 9780300214727, Yale University Press, A+D Series, October 2015
176 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 150 colour illus.

The Pushtimarg, a Hindu sect established in India in the fifteenth century, possesses a unique culture-reaching back centuries and still vital today-in which art and devotion are deeply intertwined. This important volume, illustrated with more than o...

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Photography

Power of Pictures Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film

Goodman Susan Tumarkin, Hoffmann Jens, Lavrentiev Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780300207682, Yale University Press, October 2015
240 pp., 28x22.2 cm, 148 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, photography, film, and posters played an essential role in the campaign to disseminate modernity and Communist ideology. From early experimental works by Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky to the modernist pho...

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Photography

Indecent Exposures Eadweard Muybridge's "Animal Locomotion" Nudes

Gordon Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780300209488, Yale University Press, October 2015
184 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 80 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

Photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), often termed the father of the motion picture, presented his iconic Animal Locomotion series in 1887. Produced under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania and encompassing thousands of photographs...

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Military

Hundred Years War A People's History

Green David

ISBN: PB: 9780300216103, ISBN: HB: 9780300134513, Yale University Press, October 2015
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus., 5 maps

The Hundred Years War (1337-1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This sweeping book is the first to tell the human story of the longest military conflict in h...

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Architecture

Travel

Florence A Walking Guide to its Architecture

Goy Richard J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300209877, Yale University Press, July 2015
480 pp., 21.6x12 cm, 100 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.

Each year, millions of visitors travel to Florence to admire the architectural marvels of this famous Renaissance city. In this compact yet comprehensive volume, architect and architectural historian Richard J. Goy offers a convenient, accessible gui...

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Literary Criticism

Cervantes' "Don Quixote"

Gonzalez Echevarria Roberto

ISBN: PB: 9780300198645, Yale University Press, May 2015
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.

The novel "Don Quixote", written in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, is widely considered to be one of the greatest fictional works in the entire canon of Western literature. At once farcical and deepl...

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Ecology

From Precaution to Profit Contemporary Challenges to Environmental Protection in the Montreal Protocol

Gareau Brian J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300213157, Yale University Press, April 2015
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 6 black&white illus.

The Montreal Protocol has been cited as the most successful global environmental agreement, responsible for phasing out the use of ozone-depleting substances. But, says Brian Gareau in this provocative and engaging book, the Montreal Protocol has fai...

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General

Subverting Exclusion Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885-1928

Geiger Andrea A. E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300212556, ISBN: HB: 9780300169638, Yale University Press, March 2015
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

The Japanese immigrants who arrived in the North American West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries included individuals with historical ties to Japan's outcaste communities. In the only English-language book on the subject, Andrea Ge...

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