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Architecture

Renaissance Gothic Architecture and the Arts in Northern Europe, 1470-1540

Kavaler Ethan Matt

ISBN: HB: 9780300167924, Yale University Press, January 2012
344 pp., 28x22 cm, 80 colour images, 210 black&white illus.

This compelling book offers a new paradigm for the periodization of the arts, one that counters a prevailing Italianate bias among historians of northern Europe of this era. The years after 1500 brought the construction of several iconic Late Gothic...

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History of Art

Expressions of Innocence and Eloquence, Volume 2 Selections from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana

Katcher Jane, Schorsch David A., Wolfe Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780300175806, Yale University Press, November 2011
432 pp., 27.9x26.7 cm, 470 colour illus.

This handsome book, the second volume of selections from "The Jane Katcher Collection", presents a superlative group of American folk and decorative arts created primarily in New England, New York, and Pennsylvania in the 18th and 19th centuries. It...

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Design

Decorative Arts

Duncan Phyfe Master Cabinetmaker in New York

Kenny Peter M., Brown Michael K., Bretter Frances F., Thurlow Matthew A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300155112, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2011
400 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 250 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Duncan Phyfe (1768-1854), known during his lifetime as the "United States Rage", to this day remains America's best-known cabinetmaker. Establishing his reputation as a purveyor of luxury by designing high-quality furniture for New York's moneyed eli...

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History of Art

Closer Look Techniques of Painting

Kirby Jo

ISBN: PB: 9781857095340, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2011
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 80 illus.

Materials and working practices influence a painter just as much as contemporary intellectual and cultural developments. "Techniques of Painting" aims to help readers develop a painterly eye by learning to recognize different materials and methods of...

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Photography

Radical Camera New York's Photo League, 1936-1951

Klein Mason, Evans Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780300146875, Yale University Press, November 2011
224 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 150 duotones, 76 black&white illus.

Artists in "the Photo League", active from 1936 to 1951, were known for capturing sharply revealing, compelling moments from everyday life. Their focus centred on New York City and its vibrant streets – a newsboy at work, a brass band on a bustling c...

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History of Art

Contested Visions in Spanish Colonial World

Katzew Ilona

ISBN: HB: 9780300176643, Yale University Press, October 2011
320 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 220 colour illus.

"Contested Visions" offers a comparative view of the two principal vice royalties of Spanish America: Mexico and Peru. Spanning developments from the 15th to the 19th century, this ambitious book looks at the many ways and contexts in which indigenou...

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Ancient World

Military

Battle of Marathon

Krentz Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300177664, Yale University Press, October 2011
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 black&white illus.

How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Scholars skeptical of our earliest surviving source, Herodotus, have produced one ingenious theory after another. In this s...

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Fashion

100 Shoes

Koda Harold, Parker Sarah Jessica

ISBN: PB: 9780300172409, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2011
232 pp., 17.8x25.4 cm, 16 black&white illus., 194 colour illus.

In a brilliant follow-up to "100 Dresses", published in 2010, the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum once again opens the vaults of its renowned permanent collection to introduce readers to the rich diversity of shoes within its holdings. T...

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Posters

Design

Windows on the War Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945

Kort Zegers Peter, Druick Douglas W., Akinsha Konstantin, Bird Robert, Bugajski Jill, Jolles Adam

ISBN: HB: 9780300170238, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2011
400 pp., 32.4x24.8 cm, 300 colour images, 140 black&white illus.

"Windows on the War" is a groundbreaking publication – the first in English to focus on posters designed by the Soviet Union's "TASS" news agency to bolster support for the Soviet war effort. "TASS" posters were created by a large collective of Sovie...

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Biography & Memoires

Tocqueville and His America

Kaledin Arthur

ISBN: HB: 9780300119312, Yale University Press, July 2011
480 pp., 25x15 cm

Arthur Kaledin's groundbreaking book on Alexis de Tocqueville offers an original combination of biography, character study, and wide-ranging analysis of Tocqueville's Democracy in America, bringing new light to that classic work. The author examines...

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