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Cloisters Medieval Art and Architecture

Barnet Peter, Wu Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780300187205, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2013
204 pp., 24.8x17.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

Home to an extraordinary collection of treasured masterworks, including the famed Unicorn Tapestries, The Cloisters is devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. This splendid new guide, published to celebrate The Cloisters' seventy-fift...

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Decorative Arts

For Kith and Kin Folk Art at the Art Institute of Chicago

Barter Judith A., Obniski Monica

ISBN: HB: 9780300179729, Yale University Press, A+D Series, June 2012
112 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 90 colour images, 12 black&white illus.

The Art Institute of Chicago is home to one of the world's finest – and largest – collections of American folk art. "For Kith and Kin" provides an introduction to that collection through more than sixty of its most outstanding objects. Selected by pr...

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Decorative Arts

Lucie Rie Modernist Potter

Cooper Emmanuel

ISBN: HB: 9780300152005, Yale University Press, May 2012
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 colour images, 40 black&white illus.

Lucie Rie (1902-1995), one of the twentieth century's most celebrated and iconic potters, combined an acute understanding of modernism with the skills of her chosen craft. During the course of her sixty-year career, she continually honed and refined...

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Decorative Arts

Art of German Stoneware Ceramics, 1400-1900 From the Charles W. Nichols Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Hinton Jack

ISBN: PB: 9780300179781, Yale University Press, May 2012
60 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 50 colour images, 5 black&white illus.

Bold, bright, and functional, stoneware ceramics produced in the German-speaking centres of what is today Germany and the Low Countries were highly valued and widely traded in Europe and North America from the 16th through to the 18th century. In the...

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Decorative Arts

Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection

Clark Garth, Strauss Cindi, Adamson Glenn, Vecchio Mark, Shales Ezra, Veiteberg Jorunn, Burrows Keelin, Elliot Rebecca, Houston Laura, Zooey Martin Elliott

ISBN: HB: 9780300169973, Yale University Press, April 2012
576 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 702 colour illus.

As gallerists and collectors, Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio have helped shape the field of ceramics by expanding notions of the medium's possibilities. This comprehensive catalogue features, for the first time in its entirety, their esteemed colle...

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Decorative Arts

Jewelry and Metalwork of Marie Zimmermann

Waters Deborah, Cunningham Joseph, Barnes Bruce

ISBN: HB: 9780300181142, Yale University Press, January 2012
400 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 517 colour images, 28 black&white illus.

A true eclectic in her personal life, her professional pursuits, and her creative expression, Marie Zimmermann has proven an elusive character for historians. But her skill as a designer and prodigious output of extraordinary jewellery and metalwork...

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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

Design

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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Design

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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Decorative Arts

Treasures of Vacheron Constantin A Legacy of Watchmaking Since 1755

Marchenoir Julien

ISBN: HB: 9780300178562, Yale University Press, July 2011
204 pp., 28x24 cm, 200 colour illus.

This sumptuous book brings to life the rich past and the landmark creations of one of the world's great watchmakers. Founded in the Swiss city of Geneva in 1755 by the gifted craftsman and businessman Jean-Marc Vacheron, Vacheron Constantin is the ol...

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