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Europe

Stalin's Secret Pogrom The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-fascist Committee

Rubensteln Joshua, Naumov Vladimir P., Wolfson Laura Esther

ISBN: PB: 9780300104523, Yale University Press, October 2005
496 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 51 black&white illus.

In 1952 fifteen Soviet Jews, including five prominent poets and writers, were falsely accused, secretly tried, and convicted of treason and espionage. Thirteen were executed, one died in a prison hospital and one was exiled. This book presents the lo...

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Judaism

Jewish Studies

Ancient Synagogue The First Thousand Years

Levine Lee I.

ISBN: PB: 9780300106282, Yale University Press, October 2005
816 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

In his comprehensive history of the synagogue from the Hellenistic period through Late Antiquity, Lee Levine traces the origins and development of this dynamic and revolutionary institution. This revised paperback edition reflects the latest informat...

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Performing Arts

Sarah Bernhardt The Art of High Drama

Ockman Carol, Silver Kenneth E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300109191, Yale University Press, October 2005
232 pp., 26.6x20.3 cm, 73 black&white illus., 122 colour illus.

Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) was an extraordinary performer, so much so that her name became synonymous with acting. Yet her importance extended beyond the world of theatre – she was an icon of French nationalism, a target for both admiration and scor...

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Contemporary Art

Mother Stone The Vitality of Modern British Sculpture

Middleton Wagner Anne

ISBN: HB: 9780300106855, Yale University Press, September 2005
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 60 colour images, 110 black&white illus.

In "Mother Stone" Anne Middleton Wagner looks anew at the carvings of the first generation of British modernists, a group centered around Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and Jacob Epstein. Wagner probes the work of these sculptors, discusses their sha...

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Photography

Perfect Medium Photography and the Occult

Cheroux Clement, Fischer Andreas, Apraxine Pierre, Canguilhem Denis, Schmit Sophie

ISBN: HB: 9780300111361, Yale University Press, September 2005
288 pp., 28x22.8 cm, 280 colour illus.

In the early days of photography, many believed and hoped that the camera would prove more efficient than the human eye in capturing the unseen. Spiritualists and animists of the nineteenth century seized on the new technology as a method of substant...

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Contemporary Art

Sabiduras and Other Texts Writings by Gego

Huizi Maria Elena, Manrique Josefina, Ramirez Mari Carmen

ISBN: HB: 9780300111637, Yale University Press, September 2005
256 pp., 25x25 cm, 47 colour illus.

The German-born Venezuelan artist Gego (1912-1994) was renowned for her abstract drawings, prints, three-dimensional works, hanging net pieces and wire constructions. In 1999, a folder was found in a storage trunk that had belonged to Gego, with the...

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History of Art

Origins of European Printmaking Fifteenth-century Woodcuts and Their Public

Parshall Peter, Schoch Rainer, Field Richard S., Schmidt Peter, Areford David

ISBN: HB: 9780300113396, Yale University Press, September 2005
372 pp., 30.4x24.1 cm, 150 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

This highly anticipated and beautifully illustrated book examines the evolution of early printmaking in late medieval Europe. Through their means of production and the evidence of their utility, prints are explored in a broad social and economic cont...

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Decorative Arts

Design

Modernism in American Silver 20th-century Design

Stern Jewel, Tucker Kevin W., Venable Charles L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300109276, Yale University Press, September 2005
384 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 300 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.

From teaspoons to cocktail shakers and unique objects made for New York World's Fairs, this stunning book examines the influence of modernism upon industrially produced silverware made in the United States from 1925 to 2000. Featuring the Dallas Muse...

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History of Art

Paintings and Drawings in the Wrightsman Collection

Fahy Everett, Rosenberg Pierre, Barker Elizabeth E., Goldner George, Ives Colta, Rewald Sabine, Stein Perrin, Tinterow Gary

ISBN: HB: 9780300107197, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2005
320 pp., 28x22.8 cm, 180 colour illus.

This lavish catalogue presents 150 European paintings, pastels, and drawings from the late fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century that have been given to the Metropolitan Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman or are still held in Mrs. Wrightsman...

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History of Art

After Sir Joshua, Volume 15 Essays on British Art and Cultural History

Wendorf Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300107340, Yale University Press, July 2005
256 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 16 colour images, 26 black&white illus.

Following in the methodological footsteps of his prize-winning Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Painter in Society, Richard Wendorf's new book on British art in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is an experiment in cultural history, combining the analy...

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