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Contemporary Art

Ambition and Love in Modern American Art

Weinberg Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300081879, Yale University Press, April 2001
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 175 illus.

Freud wrote that the artist "desires to win honour, power, wealth, fame, and the love of women". In this engrossing book, Jonathan Weinberg investigates how an artist's ambition interacts with his or her art, how wealth and celebrity play a role in t...

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Jewish Studies

Holocaust Encyclopedia

Laqueur Walter, Baumel Judith Tydor

ISBN: HB: 9780300084320, Yale University Press, April 2001
816 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 19 maps, 276 black&white illus.

The Holocaust has been the subject of countless books, works of art, and memorials. Fiftyfive years after the fact the world still ponders the enormity of this disaster. The Holocaust Encylopedia is the only comprehensive single-volume work of refere...

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Landscape Architecture

London Town Garden, 1700-1840

Longstaffe-Gowan Todd

ISBN: HB: 9780300085389, Yale University Press, March 2001
298 pp., 28.5x23 cm, 200 black&white illus., 60 colour illus.

Much has been written about London's terraced houses with their simple dignity, their economical use of space and their sense of comfort and human scale. Yet the small gardens that lie before or behind the houses in this great city have until now bee...

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History of Art

Farewell to an Idea Episodes from a History of Modernism

Clark T. J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300089103, Yale University Press, March 2001
464 pp., 27.5x19.5 cm, 210 black&white illus., 80 colour illus.

In this intense and far-reaching book, acclaimed art historian T. J. Clark offers a new vision of the art of the past two centuries, focusing on moments when art responded directly in extreme terms to the ongoing disaster called "modernity". Modernis...

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Philosophy

Companion to Heidegger's "Introduction to Metaphysics"

Polt Richard, Fried Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780300085242, Yale University Press, March 2001
360 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Martin Heidegger's "Introduction to Metaphysics", first published in 1953, is a highly significant work by a towering figure in twentieth-century philosophy. The volume is known for its incisive analysis of the Western understanding of Being, its ori...

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History of Art

American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 2: Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Between 1865 and 1885

Hassler Donna J., Marter Joan M., Tolles Thayer, Thompson Jerry L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300088472, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2001
350 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 182 black&white illus., 18 colour illus.

This is the second volume of a two-volume set that records the distinguished collection of late-nineteenth- and early-twentiety-century American sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The book presents nearly two hundred works by seventy sculpt...

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Film Studies

Ancient World in the Cinema

Solomon Jon

ISBN: PB: 9780300083378, Yale University Press, March 2001
368 pp., 18x25.3 cm, 205 black&white illus.

This entertaining and useful book provides a comprehensive survey of films about the ancient world, from "The Last Days of Pompeii" to "Gladiator". Jon Solomon catalogues, describes, and evaluates films set in ancient Greece and Rome, films about Gre...

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Poetry

Paul Celan Poet, Survivor, Jew

Felstiner John

ISBN: PB: 9780300089226, Yale University Press, February 2001
368 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, black&white illus.

Paul Celan, Europe's most compelling postwar poet, was a German-speaking, East European Jew. His writing exposes and illumines the wounds that Nazi destructiveness left on language. John Felstiner's sensitive and accessible book is the first critical...

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History of Art

American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 1: Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1865

Hassler Donna J., Marter Joan M., Tolles Thayer, Thompson Jerry L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300085174, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2001
480 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 198 black&white illus., 29 colour illus.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a distinguished and comprehensive collection of late nineteenth-century American sculpture, particularly strong in neoclassical and Beaux Arts works and acclaimed for its preeminent group of lifesize statues in marb...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Manchester City Guides

Hartwell Clare

ISBN: PB: 9780300096668, Yale University Press, January 2001
374 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, colour illus.

Manchester is the first in a brand new series of affordable, pocket-sized guides to England's cities and the first to include integrated colour illustrations. Clare Hartwell's detailed guide examines the full range and variety of Manchester's buildin...

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