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Sharon Hayes
ISBN: PB: 9780300180374, Yale University Press, July 2012
150 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 75 colour images, 20 black&white illus.
In her performances, videos, and installations, Sharon Hayes (b. 1970) explores the nexus between politics, history, speech, and desire. Her works modify or appropriate the language and tools of political dissent, creating unexpected affinities betwe...
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£18,00
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Liberty's Refuge The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly
ISBN: HB: 9780300173154, Yale University Press, February 2012
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
This original and provocative book looks at an important constitutional freedom that today is largely forgotten: the right of assembly. While this right lay at the heart of some of the most important social movements in American history – abolitionis...
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£46,00
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Fandom Unbound Otaku Culture in a Connected Age
ISBN: HB: 9780300158649, Yale University Press, February 2012
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 55 black&white illus.
In recent years, otaku culture has emerged as one of Japan's major cultural exports and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. This timely volume investigates how this once marginalized popular culture has come to play a major role in Japan's ident...
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£29,00
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Women, Work, and Politics The Political Economy of Gender Inequality
ISBN: PB: 9780300171341, Yale University Press, September 2011
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
Looking at women's power in the home, in the workplace, and in politics from a political economy perspective, Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth demonstrate that equality is tied to demand for women's labour outside the home, which is a function o...
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£24,00
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Jean Fouquet and the Invention of France Art and Nation after the Hundred Years War
ISBN: HB: 9780300134438, Yale University Press, May 2011
320 pp., 25x15 cm, 180 black&white illus., 60 colour illus.
Jean Fouquet was France's most important fifteenth-century artist, painting for the courts of Charles VII and Louis XI. His art synthesized the realistic style of Flemish artists like van Eyck with the monumentality of Florentines like Masaccio. Fouq...
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£60,00
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Kabbalah in Italy, 1280-1510 A Survey
ISBN: HB: 9780300126266, Yale University Press, April 2011
512 pp., 23.6x16 cm
This sweeping survey of the history of Kabbalah in Italy represents a major contribution from one of the world's foremost Kabbalah scholars. The first to focus attention on a specific centre of Kabbalah, Moshe Idel charts the ways that Kabbalistic th...
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£60,00
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Decade in Conversation A Ten-Year Celebration of The Bucksbaum Award, 2000-2010
ISBN: PB: 9780300167559, Yale University Press, July 2010
88 pp., 24.1x19.7 cm, 46 colour illus.
Established in 2000 by the Martin Bucksbaum Family Foundation and the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Bucksbaum Award is presented biennially to an artist living and working in the U. S. "whose work demonstrates a singular combination of talent a...
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£14,99
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White Tower
ISBN: HB: 9780300112931, Yale University Press, November 2008
256 pp., 31.1x24.8 cm, 40 colour images, 120 black&white illus.
The White Tower, the gigantic structure at the heart of the building complex known as the Tower of London, gave that famed landmark its name. One of the most celebrated buildings of the London cityscape for nearly 1000 years, it is also the most comp...
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£50,00
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Paul McCarthy Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement: Three Installations, Two Films
ISBN: HB: 9780300141382, Yale University Press, August 2008
80 pp., 24.1x22.2 cm, 5 black&white illus., 25 colour illus.
This is the first publication to explore the role of mirrors, spinning, and "neurotic" architecture – a feeling of psychological breakdown – in the work of one of America's most important contemporary artists, Paul McCarthy (b. 1945). The book is pub...
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£10,99
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Designing Modern America Broadway to Main Street
ISBN: HB: 9780300108040, Yale University Press, November 2005
230 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 136 black&white illus.
From the 1920s through the 1950s, two individuals, Joseph Urban and Norman Bel Geddes, did more, by far, to create the image of 'America' and make it synonymous with modernity than any of their contemporaries. Urban and Bel Geddes were leading Broadw...
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£45,00
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