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Contemporary Art

Ai Weiwei Good Fences Make Good Neighbors

Baume Nicholas, Palmer Daniel S., Stathopoulou Katerina

ISBN: HB: 9780300243796, Yale University Press, June 2019
304 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm, 570 colour illus.

Internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) transformed over 300 sites across New York City into a compelling, ambitious public art exhibition concerned with the global refugee and migration crises. "Good Fences Make Good...

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Bartolome Bermejo Master of the Spanish Renaissance

Treves Letizia, Molina Figueras Joan, Campbell Lorne, Capwell Tobias, Ackroyd Paul, Spring Marika, Herraez Vossbrink Akemi

ISBN: PB: 9781857096446, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2019
128 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 70 colour illus.

Painted in 1468, "Saint Michael Triumphant over the Devil" is the first documented work by Bartolome Bermejo (c. 1440 – c. 1501), a 15th-century Spanish artist by whom only about 20 paintings are known. Acquired by the National Gallery in 1995, the p...

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Contemporary Art

Cy Twombly, Treatise on the Veil, 1970

White Michelle, Dervaux Isabelle, Rothenberg Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780300244571, Yale University Press, May 2019
80 pp., 35.6x27.9 cm, 42 colour illus.

One of the most important American postwar artists, Cy Twombly (1928-2011) engaged with mythological and poetic source material, setting him apart from other artists of his generation. In 1970, Twombly revisited his 1968 painting Treatise on the Veil...

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History of Art

Eileen Hogan Personal Geographies

Fairman Elisabeth R., Hogan Eileen, Robinson Duncan, Conway Morris Roderick, Longstaffe-Gowan Todd, Turner Sarah Victoria, Lousada Sandra

ISBN: PB: 9780300241471, Yale University Press, May 2019
272 pp., 26x21 cm, 320 colour illus.

This visually stunning survey provides an in-depth look at Eileen Hogan's (b. 1946) working methods. Covering her entire career, it focuses particularly on two dominant themes in the artist's oeuvre – enclosed gardens and portraiture. Her depictions...

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History of Art

Gothic Sculpture Eloquence, Craft, and Materials

Binski Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300241433, Yale University Press, May 2019
296 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 100 colour illus.

In this beautifully illustrated study, Paul Binski offers a new account of sculpture in England and northwestern Europe between c. 1000 and 1500, examining Romanesque and Gothic art as a form of persuasion. Binski applies rhetorical analysis to a wid...

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History of Art

Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Thompson Jennifer A., Rishel Joseph J., Owens Eileen

ISBN: HB: 9780876332894, Yale University Press, May 2019
208 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 150 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Featuring 90 highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art's stellar collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art, this handsome volume includes iconic works such as Paul Cezanne's "Large Bathers", Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers", Edgar De...

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Decorative Arts

Inventing Boston Design, Production, and Consumption, 1680-1720

Cooke Edward

ISBN: HB: 9780300232110, Yale University Press, May 2019
232 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 120 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.

During the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Boston was both a colonial capital and the third most important port in the British empire, trailing only London and Bristol. Boston was also an independent entity that pursued its own interests and arti...

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Contemporary Art

Matthew Barney Redoubt

Franks Pamela, Hodermarsky Elisabeth, Lepecki Andre, Middleton Arthur, Nesbit Molly, Pinchot Gifford, Raab Jennifer, Rember John

ISBN: PB: 9780300243277, Yale University Press, May 2019
368 pp., 24.4x16.5 cm, 414 colour illus., 8 black&white illus.

"Matthew Barney: Redoubt" is a comprehensive catalogue of the artist's newest project, which centers on a two-hour film that creates a complex portrait of the American landscape by layering classical, cosmological, and American myths about humanity's...

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History of Art

Power of Color Five Centuries of European Painting

Hall Marcia B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300237191, Yale University Press, May 2019
312 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 204 colour illus., 8 black&white illus.

This expansive study of color illuminates the substance, context, and meaning of five centuries of European painting. Between the mid-15th and the mid-19th centuries, the materials of painting remained remarkably unchanged, but innovations in their u...

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History of Art

Shinto Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art

Vilbar Sinead, Carr Kevin, Andrei Talia J., Chusid Miriam, Tomoji Iwai, Shigeki Iwata, Kazuki Morishima, Enishi Naomi, Kosei Taniguchi, Ken Shimizu, Ryusuke Yamaguchi

ISBN: HB: 9780300237016, Yale University Press, May 2019
400 pp., 25.4x30.2 cm, 195 colour illus.

A central feature of Japanese culture for many centuries, the veneration of kami deities – a practice often referred to as Shinto – has been a driving force behind a broad swath of visual art. Focusing on the Heian period (795-1185) through the Edo p...

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