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Buddhism

Awaken A Tibetan Buddhist Journey Toward Enlightenment

Rice John Henry, Durham Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300244656, Yale University Press, July 2019
252 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 230 colour and black&white illus.

Encouraging personal engagement with Tibetan Buddhism, this dynamic book presents spectacular Himalayan art and explores the philosophical tenets encoded in its imagery. Taking as its theme the universally accessible experience of Awakening, the book...

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Fashion

CAMP Notes on Fashion

Bolton Andrew, Cleto Fabio, van Godtsenhoven Karen, Garfinkel Amanda

ISBN: HB: 9781588396686, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2019
256 pp., 34.3x26 cm, 250 colour illus.

Although an elusive concept, "camp" can be found in most forms of artistic expression, revealing itself through an aesthetic of deliberate stylization. Fashion is one of the most overt and enduring conduits of the camp aesthetic. As a site for the pl...

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History of Art

Elizabethan Image An Introduction to English Portraiture, 1558-1603

Strong Roy

ISBN: HB: 9780300244298, Yale University Press, June 2019
224 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 230 colour illus.

This richly illustrated volume presents an engaging overview of an extraordinary period of English history, the reign of Elizabeth I. Beginning with the great portrait of the Queen in grand procession with her Garter Knights, we discover themes that...

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History of Art

Gauguin Portraits

Homburg Cornelia, Riopelle Christopher, Childs Elizabeth, Gamboni Dario, Goddard Linda, Guitton Claire, Jumeau-Lafond Jean-David, Wright Alastair

ISBN: HB: 9780300242737, Yale University Press, June 2019
260 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 170 colour and black&white illus.

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) broke with accepted conventions and challenged audiences to expand their understanding of visual expression. Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than in his portraits, a genre he remained engaged with throughout all phase...

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History of Art

Islamic Art Past, Present, Future

Bloom Jonathan M., Blair Sheila S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300243475, Yale University Press, June 2019
360 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, 80 colour illus., 170 black&white illus.

"Islamic art" can be a challenging term in an ever-changing art world. Through the exploration of a wide array of media – from painting, sculpture, and photography to video and multimedia – an internationally renowned group of scholars, collectors, a...

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Design

N. C. Wyeth New Perspectives

May Jessica, Podmaniczky Christine

ISBN: PB: 9780300243680, Yale University Press, June 2019
216 pp., 27.9x24.8 cm, 158 colour illus.

N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945) was widely renowned for his iconic images of characters such as King Arthur, Robin Hood, and Robinson Crusoe that were reproduced as illustrations for books and magazines. The patriarch of the Wyeth family, father of Andrew Wy...

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History of Art

Edvard Munch Behind the Scream

Prideaux Sue

ISBN: PB: 9780300250008, Yale University Press, June 2019
496 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 129 black&white illus., 22 colour illus., 3 maps

Who was the man behind "The Scream", the iconic painting that so acutely expresses the anguish of the twentieth century? Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was twenty-eight when he embarked on a lifelong effort to paint his 'soul's diary' – and began a perver...

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Contemporary Art

Polonica

Alicja Kwade: ParaPivot The Roof Garden Commission

Baum Kelly, Wagstaff Sheena

ISBN: PB: 9781588396679, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2019
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 58 colour illus.

Contemporary artist Alicja Kwade (b. 1979) has received international acclaim for her minimalist, large-scale sculptures and installations intended to parse, but not resolve, various scientific and metaphysical conundrums. Kwade's site-specific insta...

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History of Art

Whistler in Watercolor Lovely Little Games

Glazer Lee, Jacobson Emily, McCarthy Blythe, Roeder Katherine

ISBN: HB: 9780300243628, Yale University Press, June 2019
286 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 250 colour illus.

In the 1880s, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) reinvented himself through the medium of watercolor. At the time, excellence in watercolor was most often associated with British artists, and most notably with the work of J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851)....

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Women Studies

Women of Atelier 17 Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York

Weyl Christina

ISBN: HB: 9780300238501, Yale University Press, June 2019
296 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 76 colour illus., 63 black&white illus.

In this important book Christina Weyl takes us into the experimental New York print studio Atelier 17 and highlights the women whose work there advanced both modernism and feminism in the 1940s and 1950s. Weyl focuses on eight artists – Louise Bourge...

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