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Architecture

Gothic Art in Ireland, 1169-1550 Enduring Vitality

Hourihane Colum

ISBN: HB: 9780300094350, Yale University Press, April 2003
208 pp., 27.5x22 cm, 70 black&white illus., 35 colour illus.

It will come as a surprise to many that a wealth of Gothic art and architecture can still be found in Ireland. This text examines the most westerly expression of Gothic – on the edge of Europe – and traces its development from the beginning of the 13...

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History of Art

Words for Pictures Seven Papers on Renaissance Art and Criticism

Baxandall Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300176780, Yale University Press, April 2003
206 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

The Italian Renaissance was a creative period for art criticism as well as for art itself. The early efforts to give verbal accounts of visual representations and their quality throw light not only on art during the Renaissance but also on art critic...

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History of Art

Pelican History of Art

Art in France, 1900-1940

Green Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780300099089, Yale University Press, March 2003
336 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 239 black&white illus., 103 colour illus.

During the decades from 1900 to 1940, art in France developed in ways that were of paramount importance to 20th-century art. This illustrated account sets these developments within the framework of the unstable social, political, intellectual and art...

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Photography

Manufactured Landscapes The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky

Pauli Lori, Burtynsky Edward, Haworth-Booth Mark, Baker Kenneth, Torosian Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300099430, Yale University Press, March 2003
160 pp., 32x27 cm, 110 illus.

Over a period of 25 years, the internationally renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has been an explorer of unfamiliar places where human activity has reshaped the surface of the land. His astonishing large-scale colour photographs of the...

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History of Art

A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Fifty Years

Cropper Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780300099614, Yale University Press, February 2003
255 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 63 illus.

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts were begun in 1952 at the National Gallery of Art in order to bring the best in contemporary scholarship to the public. To mark the 50th anniversary of the acclaimed series, the Center for Advanced Study in...

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History of Art

Mall in Washington, 1791-1991

Longstreth Richard, O'Malley Therese

ISBN: HB: 9780300095371, Yale University Press, February 2003
328 pp., 28.7x23.9 cm, 37 colour plates, 103 black&white illus.

As the most important public space in the United States, the Mall in Washington, DC, has been a vital emblem of national spirit and ideals ever since Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant first envisioned it over 200 years ago. Although the Mall has undergon...

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Education

Beyond Methods Macrostrategies for Language Teaching

Kumaravadivelu B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300095739, Yale University Press, February 2003
320 pp., 23.3x15.5 cm, illus.

In this work, B. Kumaravadivelu presents a macrostrategic framework designed to help both beginning and experienced language teachers develop a systematic, coherent and personal theory of practice. His book offers to provide the tools a teacher needs...

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History of Art

Brush With Nature The Gere Collection of Landscape Oil Sketches (Revised Edition)

Riopelle Christopher, Bray Xavier

ISBN: HB: 9781857099980, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, January 2003
176 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 20 black&white illus., 101 colour illus.

More than forty years ago, John and Charlotte Gere, both distinguished art historians, pioneered the collecting of small-scale landscape oil sketches created by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists working out of doors in nature. Such paintings...

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Jewish Studies

Secret City The Hidden Jews of Warsaw, 1940-1945

Paulsson Gunnar S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300204773, Yale University Press, January 2003
330 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

When the Nazis forced most of Warsaw's Jews into the city's infamous ghetto during the Second World War, some 28,000 Jews either hid and never entered the Warsaw Ghetto, or escaped from it later in what Gunnar S. Paulsson calls "the greatest prison-b...

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History of Art

Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum

Barnett Vivian Endicott

ISBN: HB: 9780300096354, Yale University Press, November 2002
512 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, some illus.

A famous art collector, dealer, and indomitable champion of modern art, Emmy (Galka) Scheyer (1889-1945) is best known as the founder of the Blue Four artists' group, whose members were Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Alexei Jawlensky and Vasily Kandins...

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