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Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings Volume I
ISBN: HB: 9781857099089, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2004
448 pp., 28.6x21.6 cm, 225 colour images, 75 black&white illus.
This highly anticipated catalogue of sixteenth-century paintings from the distinguished collection of the National Gallery in London encompasses artists who were active in Bergamo, Brescia, and Cremona, cities characterized as much by the artistic in...
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£75,00
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Manufactured Landscapes The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky
ISBN: HB: 9780300099430, Yale University Press, March 2003
160 pp., 32x27 cm, 110 illus.
Over a period of 25 years, the internationally renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has been an explorer of unfamiliar places where human activity has reshaped the surface of the land. His astonishing large-scale colour photographs of the...
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£45,00
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Secret City The Hidden Jews of Warsaw, 1940-1945
ISBN: PB: 9780300204773, Yale University Press, January 2003
330 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
When the Nazis forced most of Warsaw's Jews into the city's infamous ghetto during the Second World War, some 28,000 Jews either hid and never entered the Warsaw Ghetto, or escaped from it later in what Gunnar S. Paulsson calls "the greatest prison-b...
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£25,00
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Flute
ISBN: PB: 9780300094985, Yale University Press, May 2002
352 pp., 23.4x19 cm, 20 colour plates, 45 black&white illus.
The story of the flute in the musical life of Europe and North America from the 12th century to the 21st. It seeks to illustrate the relationship that has bound the instrument, its music, and performance technique together through eight centuries of...
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£42,00
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Small Bronzes in the Renaissance
ISBN: HB: 9780300090420, Yale University Press, August 2001
282 pp., 28x22.8 cm, 305 illus.
This far-ranging book presents the most recent research on small-scale bronze production of the Renaissance. The contributors to the volume – an international group of curators, art historians, and conservators – analyse the production and collecting...
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£40,00
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Companion to Heidegger's "Introduction to Metaphysics"
ISBN: PB: 9780300085242, Yale University Press, March 2001
360 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Martin Heidegger's "Introduction to Metaphysics", first published in 1953, is a highly significant work by a towering figure in twentieth-century philosophy. The volume is known for its incisive analysis of the Western understanding of Being, its ori...
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£25,00
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Flesh and the Ideal Winkelmann and the Origins of Art History
ISBN: PB: 9780300087369, Yale University Press, October 2000
302 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 43 illus.
A biography of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 18th-century German philosopher and aesthetician. Analyzing Winckelmann's magnum opus, "History of the Art of Antiquity", it explains the fundamental importance to art history of this account of the aestheti...
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£21,00
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Norfolk, Volume 2: North-west and South Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300096576, Yale University Press, January 1999
864 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 64 illus.
In his second volume on "Norfolk", Bill Wilson provides an enlightening and comprehensive survey from prehistoric times to the present day. The magnificent remains of castles and priories stand alongside a wealth of medieval churches, richly decorate...
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£60,00
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Norfolk, Volume 1: Norwich and North-east Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300096071, Yale University Press, January 1997
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 64 illus.
"Norfolk, Volume 1: Norwich and North-East" and its companion, "Norfolk, Volume 2: North-West and South", aim to provide a lively and uniquely comprehensive survey of the architectural treasures of Norfolk. Extensively revised and expanded, these new...
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£60,00
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Karen Horney A Psychoanalyst's Search for Self-understanding
ISBN: PB: 9780300068603, Yale University Press, August 1996
314 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
Karen Horney (1885-1952) is regarded by many as one of the most important psychoanalytic thinkers of the twentieth century. Her early work, in which she quarreled with Freud's views on female psychology, established her as the first great psychoanaly...
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£22,00
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