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Contemporary Art

Angels, Demons, and Savages Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet

Kosinski Dorothy M., Ottmann Klaus, Longwell Alicia G., Dubuffet Jean, Steele Elizabeth, Albro Sylvia, Homolka Scott, Bernicky Chantal

ISBN: HB: 9780300186482, Yale University Press, January 2013
168 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 84 colour images, 16 black&white illus.

The artistic relationships among Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Alfonso Ossorio (1916-1990), and Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) strongly influenced the development of postwar art. Ossorio, the central figure in the trio, was an early champion of Pollock and...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Visions of a Vanished World The Extraordinary Fossils of the Hunsrate

Kuhl Gabriele, Bartels Christoph, Briggs D. E. G., Rust Jes, Fortey Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300184600, Yale University Press, January 2013
128 pp., 29.5x25 cm, 127 colour illus.

About four hundred million years ago earthquake activity and possibly major storms caused sudden movements of large quantities of muddy sentiment along the seafloor. Animal communities in the path of these sediment-laden flows were instantly engulfed...

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Philosophy

Views from the Other Shore Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin

Kelly Aileen M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300194623, Yale University Press, October 2012
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

In this brilliant companion volume to her highly praised Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance, Aileen M. Kelly closely examines a humanist strand of Russian thought that has until now received little notice or understan...

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Photography

Seduced by Art Photography Past and Present

Kingsley Hope, Riopelle Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9781857095456, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, October 2012
208 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 150 colour illus.

Today's photography is part of our own cultural moment, but it also arises from artistic traditions of the past. Seduced by Art looks at the effects of art and its history on the creation of photographs, tracing continuities in aims, visual style, an...

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Interior Design

History of Art

Chinese Silks

Kuhn Dieter, Watt James C. Y., Juanjuan Chen, Huang Nengfu, Wenying Li, Hao Peng, Feng Zhao

ISBN: HB: 9780300111033, Yale University Press, August 2012
624 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 600 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Over the past fifty years, archaeological explorations in China have unearthed a wealth of textile materials, some dating as far back as five thousand years. In this magnificently researched and illustrated book, preeminent Chinese and Western schola...

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Contemporary Art

Silence

Kamps Toby, Seid Steve, Sorkin Jenni

ISBN: HB: 9780300179644, Yale University Press, July 2012
112 pp., 28.6x23.5 cm, 90 colour illus.

Over the last century, many artists have used silence as subject matter and medium, exploring it as symbol, phenomenon, memorial device, and oppressive force. "Silence" examines the ways 29 artists invoke silence to shape space and consciousness, mos...

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General

Europe

Making Way for Genius The Aspiring Self in France from the Old Regime to the New

Kete Kathleen

ISBN: HB: 9780300174823, Yale University Press, June 2012
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Examining the lives and works of three iconic personalities – Germaine de Stael, Stendhal, and Georges Cuvier – Kathleen Kete creates a groundbreaking cultural history of ambition in post-Revolutionary France. While in the old regime the traditionali...

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Music

Musical Instrument

Bassoon

Kopp James B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300118292, Yale University Press, June 2012
352 pp., 23.4x19 cm, 15 musical examples, 68 black&white illus.

This welcome volume encompasses the entire history of the bassoon, from its origins five centuries ago to its place in 21st-century music. James Kopp draws on new archival research and many years of experience playing the instrument to provide an up-...

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Poetry

Treason

Kaddour Hedi, Hacker Marilyn

ISBN: PB: 9780300177756, ISBN: HB: 9780300149586, Yale University Press, May 2012
192 pp., 21x14 cm

Full of sensuality, erudition, and wit, Hedi Kaddour's poetry arises from observation, from situations both ordinary and emblematic – of contemporary life, of human stubbornness, human invention, human cruelty, of the way the past invisibly inflects...

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Philosophy

Death

Kagan Shelly

ISBN: PB: 9780300180848, Yale University Press, May 2012
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.

There is one thing we can be sure of: we are all going to die. But once we accept that fact, the questions begin. In this thought-provoking book, philosophy professor Shelly Kagan examines the myriad questions that arise when we confront the meaning...

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