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Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds
ISBN: HB: 9780300087338, Yale University Press, December 2000
318 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 illus.
A collection of letters by Sir Joshua Reynolds. It is the first edition to be published since 1929, and since that date the number of known letters has almost doubled. This volume contains 308 letters by the artist to friends, family and patrons, all...
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£30,00
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Eye on the Modern Century Selected Letters of Henry McBride
ISBN: HB: 9780300083262, Yale University Press, December 2000
374 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 illus.
Henry McBride (1867-1962) became a towering figure in art criticism during a long career that began in 1913 – the year of the famous Armory Show in New York that opened American eyes to avant-garde developments in European art – and continued until t...
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£48,00
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Medicine and Magnificence British Hospital and Asylum Architecture, 1660-1815
ISBN: HB: 9780300085365, Yale University Press, November 2000
312 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 96 illus.
The late-17th and 18th centuries represent a golden age in terms of the design and construction of hospitals in Britain and its US colonies. This account of this period of planning and construction considers both the architecture and function of the...
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Logic of the Cultural Sciences Five Studies
ISBN: PB: 9780300081152, Yale University Press, October 2000
190 pp., 21x14 cm
This new translation of "The Logic of the Cultural Sciences" (formerly entitled "The Logic of the Humanities") makes Ernst Cassirer's classic study, long out of print, available to English readers. A German Jew living in exile at the beginning of the...
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£15,00
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Flesh and the Ideal Winkelmann and the Origins of Art History
ISBN: PB: 9780300087369, Yale University Press, October 2000
302 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 43 illus.
A biography of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 18th-century German philosopher and aesthetician. Analyzing Winckelmann's magnum opus, "History of the Art of Antiquity", it explains the fundamental importance to art history of this account of the aestheti...
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£21,00
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Ephemeral Museum Old Master Paintings and the Rise of the Art Exhbition
ISBN: HB: 9780300085341, Yale University Press, October 2000
248 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
When and why did large-scale exhibitions of Old Master paintings begin, and how have they evolved through the centuries? In this book an eminent art historian examines the intriguing history and significance of these international art exhibitions. Fr...
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£40,00
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Vanishing Acts Theater Since the Sixties
ISBN: PB: 9780300087772, ISBN: HB: 9780300082487, Yale University Press, October 2000
312 pp., 21x14 cm
In this outstanding collection of critical writings, some published here for the first time, Gordon Rogoff tells the story of live theater in America over the past forty years. His view of modern drama and its performance is rich with the insights of...
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£22,00
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£25,00
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Albert Memorial The Prince Consort National Memorial: Its History, Contexts and Conservation
ISBN: HB: 9780300073119, Yale University Press, September 2000
456 pp., 33x16.5 cm, 112 black&white illus., 200 colour illus.
A study of the Albert Memorial. It tells the history, discusses the symbolism, and gives an account of the recent restoration of this 19th-century monument. In commemorating Prince Albert, the Memorial exemplified the age, its material achievements,...
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British Theatre Since the War
ISBN: PB: 9780300087376, Yale University Press, August 2000
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
Vibrant, varied, and controversial, British theatre of the past fifty years has encompassed invigorating indigenous drama, political didactics, the formation of such institutions as the National Theatre, worldwide exportation of West End musicals, an...
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£16,00
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Language of Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9780300082944, Yale University Press, August 2000
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 84 illus.
This eloquent and powerful book combines poetry and pragmatism to teach the language of landscape and thereby to avoid making profound aesthetic and environmental mistakes in landscape design. Using examples that range across thousands of years and f...
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£30,00
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