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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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History of Art

French Art in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Morris Edward

ISBN: HB: 9780300106893, Yale University Press, July 2005
384 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 160 illus.

Early in the nineteenth century French art was largely rejected by British artists, critics and patrons. This rejection reflected both constant political opposition to France over the preceding 130 years and the growth of cultural nationalism in Brit...

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Japanese

Japanese: The Written Language Volume 1: Textbook

Harz Jorden Eleanor, Noda Mari

ISBN: PB: 9780300048186, Yale University Press, July 2005
144 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

Eleanor Harz Jorden and Mari Noda, authors of the widely used language textbook Japanese: The Spoken Language, now offer the first volume of the much anticipated companion to it, "Japanese: The Written Language". This new series is designed to enable...

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Japanese

Japanese: The Written Language Volume 1: Workbook

Harz Jorden Eleanor, Noda Mari

ISBN: PB: 9780300048216, Yale University Press, July 2005
112 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

Eleanor Harz Jorden and Mari Noda, authors of the widely used language textbook "Japanese: The Spoken Language", now offer the first volume of the much anticipated companion to it, "Japanese: The Written Language". This new series is designed to enab...

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History of Art

Nationalism and French Visual Culture, 1870-1914

Hargrove June, McWilliam Neil

ISBN: HB: 9780300107555, Yale University Press, June 2005
336 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 17 colour images, 144 black&white illus.

Between its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and the outbreak of World War I, France experienced a tremendous rise in populist nationalism, the aftershocks of which can still be felt today. In examining the forces that shaped the arts of this period...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Leeds City Guides

Wrathmell Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780300107364, Yale University Press, June 2005
320 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 30 black&white illus., 140 colour illus.

Leeds is a city with a rich commercial tradition and fine buildings to match. Its prosperity, founded on the wool trade, is reflected in the seventeenth-century church of St John, with its magnificent Jacobean woodcarving and furnishings, while the t...

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Contemporary Art

Christo and Jeanne-Claude On the Way to the Gates, Central Park, New York City

Fineberg Jonathan David, Volz Wolfgang

ISBN: PB: 9780300104059, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2005
224 pp., 26.9x29.2 cm

This exquisitely produced book celebrates the culmination of the artists' vision for The Gates, a project that began in 1979. Richly illustrated with photographs by Wolfgang Volz, the book features an introduction by Jonathan Fineberg that surveys th...

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