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Landscape Architecture
Design
Carscapes The Motor Car, Architecture, and Landscape in England
Morrison Kathryn A., Minnis John
ISBN: HB: 9780300187045, Yale University Press, October 2012
400 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 225 colour images, 75 black&white illus.
When the motor car first came to England in the 1890s, it was a luxury item with little practical purpose – drivers couldn't travel very far or very quickly without paved roads or traffic laws. Thus began a transformation that has affected the archit...
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Contemporary Art
40 Under 40 Craft Futures
Bell Nicholas R., Bryan-Wilson Julia, Herman Bernard L., Prokopow Michael J., Coupland Douglas
ISBN: HB: 9780300187977, Yale University Press, September 2012
256 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 220 colour illus.
In this beautifully illustrated volume, published in celebration of the Renwick Gallery's fortieth anniversary, author Nicholas Bell highlights forty artists (all under the age of forty) actively engaged in creating objects that are transforming cont...
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Visual Strategies A Practical Guide to Graphics for Scientists and Engineers
Frankel Felice C., DePace Angela H.
ISBN: HB: 9780300176445, Yale University Press, June 2012
160 pp., 23.2x20 cm, 125 colour illus.
Any scientist or engineer who communicates research results will immediately recognize this practical handbook as an indispensable tool. The guide sets out clear strategies and offers abundant examples to assist researchers – even those with no previ...
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Fashioning the Object Bless, Boudicca and the Sandra Backlund
Ryan Zoe
ISBN: PB: 9780300179743, Yale University Press, A+D Series, May 2012
112 pp., 21.6x13.3 cm, 100 colour illus.
The newest volume in the "Art Institute of Chicago's successful A + D" series, "Fashioning the Object", invites readers to visit three of the most visionary design studios at work today: Bless, Boudicca, and Sandra Backlund. Fiercely independent and...
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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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Decorative Arts
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Modern World American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920-1950
Gordon John Stuart, Isenstadt Sandy, Orgeman Keely, Orr Emily M., Wendt Pan, Woo Justin, Wright Diane C.
ISBN: HB: 9780300153019, Yale University Press, November 2011
432 pp., 31.1x23.7 cm, 329 colour images, 19 black&white illus.
The Yale University Art Gallery is home to an amazing collection of American decorative arts. "A Modern World" provides a comprehensive look at the Gallery's holdings of modernist design made in America or for the American market. The catalogue featu...
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American Christmas Cards, 1900-1960
Ames Kenneth L.
ISBN: PB: 9780300176872, Yale University Press, October 2011
320 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 250 colour illus.
The power of Christmas derives from the appeal of its repeated rituals, the presumed antiquity of its traditions, and its ability to adapt to changing cultural conditions. Christmas cards seemed inevitable and ubiquitous, but in recent years the genr...
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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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Design
Fashion
Knoll Textiles, 1945-2010
Martin Earl
ISBN: HB: 9780300170696, Yale University Press, July 2011
400 pp., 26.5x21.6 cm, 300 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.
In 1940, Hans Knoll founded a company in New York that soon earned a reputation for its progressive line of furniture. Florence Schust joined the firm and helped establish its interior design division, the Knoll Planning Unit. In 1947, the year after...
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Contemporary Art
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Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life Early Twentieth-Century European Modernism
Witkovsky Matthew S.
ISBN: HB: 9780300166095, Yale University Press, A+D Series, July 2011
160 pp., 25x15 cm, 160 colour illus.
Beginning around 1910, vanguard artists demanded that true art go beyond the intellectual and transform daily life. This volume highlights the work of six influential European artists who took this idea into the wider world, where it merged enthusias...
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