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Nature Inside Plants and Flowers in the Modern Interior
ISBN: HB: 9780300244021, Yale University Press, February 2021
224 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 120 illus.
From ferns in 19th-century British parlors to contemporary "living walls" in commercial spaces, plants and flowers have long been incorporated into the design of public and private spaces. Spanning two centuries, "Nature Inside" explores the history...
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Picture Ecology Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective
ISBN: PB: 9780300254266, Yale University Press, February 2021
256 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 170 colour illus.
Seeking a broad reexamination of visual culture through the lenses of ecocriticism, environmental justice, and animal studies, this compendium offers a diverse range of art-historical criticism formulated within an ecological context. "Picture Ecolog...
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When Metaphor Becomes Material Studying the Art of Africa at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
ISBN: PB: 9780300250923, Yale University Press, February 2021
300 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 350 colour illus.
The collection of African art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is among the most comprehensive in the United States, featuring works in all media from across the continent dating from antiquity to today. This handsome volume, the product of a grou...
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James Castle Memory Palace
ISBN: HB: 9780300253498, Yale University Press, February 2021
304 pp., 27.9x23.5 cm, 300 colour illus.
Self-taught artist James Castle (1899-1977) is primarily known for soot and saliva drawings of meticulously rendered domestic interiors and farm scenes, along with fantastical figures, animals, and architectural constructions made of cardboard and st...
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Nikolai Astrup Visions of Norway
ISBN: HB: 9780300250855, Yale University Press, February 2021
240 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 160 colour and black&white illus.
Nikolai Astrup (1880-1928) was a Norwegian Expressionist artist known for colorful paintings and woodcuts of his native landscape. Astrup received a formal art education in Kristiania (now Oslo), Germany, and Paris, but he later rebelled against cert...
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National Gallery of Art Master Paintings from the Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780300253900, Yale University Press, January 2021
492 pp., 30.5x22.2 cm, 400 colour illus.
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, is renowned for its world-class collection of paintings representing seven centuries of American and European art. Now in the sixth printing since its original publication in 2004, this engaging and broa...
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Object Lessons The Bauhaus and Harvard
ISBN: HB: 9780300254167, Yale University Press, January 2021
300 pp., 26x18.4 cm, 150 illus.
Founded by architect Walter Gropius (1883-1969) in 1919, the Bauhaus was the 20th century's most influential school of art, architecture, and design. After the school was shuttered under pressure from the Nazis in 1933, many Bauhaus artists brought t...
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Ray Johnson c/o
ISBN: HB: 9780300254334, Yale University Press, January 2021
304 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 350 colour illus.
Ray Johnson (1927-1995) was a celebrated maker of small-scale collages whose works influenced movements including Pop Art, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art. Trained at Black Mountain College, Johnson subsequently settled in New York and founded a mail art...
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Rosalind Nashashibi at the National Gallery
ISBN: PB: 9781857096682, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, January 2021
160 pp., 26x23.5 cm, 70 colour illus.
Rosalind Nashashibi (b. 1973) is a London-based artist working mainly working in 16mm film, painting and prints. Her films convey inner experiences of moments and events, often considering the politics of relations in the community and extended famil...
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Catalogue of the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300250909, Yale University Press, January 2021
448 pp., 27.9x24.7 cm, 560 colour illus.
Over more than four decades, Robert and Betsy Feinberg have assembled the finest private collection of Edo-period Japanese painting in the United States. The collection is notable for its size, its remarkable quality, and its comprehensiveness. It re...
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