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Transatlantic Encounters Latin American Artists in Paris Between the Wars
ISBN: HB: 9780300228427, Yale University Press, February 2018
296 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 137 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.
Paris was the artistic capital of the world in the 1920s and '30s, providing a home and community for the French and international avant-garde, whose experiments laid the groundwork for artistic production throughout the rest of the century. Latin Am...
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£50,00
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Townshend Moment The Making of Empire and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300218978, Yale University Press, February 2018
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.
Patrick Griffin chronicles the attempts of brothers Charles and George Townshend to control the forces of history in the heady days after Britain's mythic victory over France in the mid-eighteenth century, and the historic and unintended consequences...
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Minoru Yamasaki Humanist Architecture for a Modernist World
ISBN: HB: 9780300217094, Yale University Press, February 2018
296 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, 70 colour illus., 119 black&white illus.
Born to Japanese immigrant parents in Seattle, Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986) became one of the towering figures of midcentury architecture, even appearing on the cover of Time magazine in 1963. His self-proclaimed humanist designs merged the modern mat...
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Barbra Streisand Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power
ISBN: PB: 9780300230611, Yale University Press, November 2017
296 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Barbra Streisand has been called the "most successful... talented performer of her generation" by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is "one of the natural wonders of the age". Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment-from a p...
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£10,99
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Adrian Villar Rojas The Roof Garden Commission: The Theater of Disappearance
ISBN: PB: 9781588396211, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2017
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 68 colour illus.
Known for his ephemeral, interconnected installations and monumental sculpture, Argentinian artist Adrian Villar Rojas (b. 1980) transformed The Met Roof into an immersive banquet scene for the 2017 Roof Garden Commission. This book retraces the arti...
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£6,95
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Henry IV
ISBN: PB: 9780300229714, Yale University Press, August 2017
608 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 pp. black&white illus.
<p>Henry IV (1399-1413), the son of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, seized the English throne at the age of thirty-two from his cousin Richard II and held it until his death, aged forty-five, when he was succeeded by his son, Henry V. This comprehe...
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£19,99
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Deadly Legacy German Jews and the Great War
ISBN: HB: 9780300192049, Yale University Press, August 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
This book is the first to offer a full account of the varied contributions of German Jews to Imperial Germany's endeavors during the Great War. Historian Tim Grady examines the efforts of the 100,000 Jewish soldiers who served in the German military...
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Bande Dessinee: Thinking Outside the Boxes Yale French Studies, Number 131/132
ISBN: PB: 9780300225983, Yale University Press, August 2017
248 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
The latest installment of Yale French Studies explores the history and development of bande dessinee, Franco-Belgian comics. This special issue of "Yale French Studies" on bande dessinee is a multifaceted reflection on its newfound academic status....
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Edvard Munch Between the Clock and the Bed
ISBN: HB: 9781588396235, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2017
256 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 120 colour illus.
A penetrating reassessment of Munch's memorable painting and profound artistic legacy. This engaging book offers a fresh look at the exceptional works of Edvard Munch (1863-1944) by examining them in the light of his precarious mental state. Followi...
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Contender Richard Nixon, the Congress Years, 1946-1952
ISBN: PB: 9780300220209, Yale University Press, May 2017
624 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
The definitive account of Richard Nixon's congressional career, back in print with a new preface. Unsurpassed in the fifteen years since its original publication, Irwin F. Gellman's exhaustively researched work is the definitive account of Richard N...
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