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Lee Lozano Drawings

Rosen Barry, van Liere Jaap

ISBN: HB: 9780300119626, Yale University Press, November 2006
192 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 60 colour images, 120 black&white illus.

Lee Lozano (1930-1999) brought a potent voice to the 1960s New York art scene. Equipped with an extraordinary intellectual reach and demonstrating an unusually expressive and mature sexuality, Lozano's art, which includes paintings, drawings, and con...

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History of Art

Imagining Childhood Themes in the Imagery of Childhood

Langmuir Erika

ISBN: HB: 9780300101317, Yale University Press, October 2006
256 pp., 27x20.4 cm, 45 colour images, 55 black&white illus.

The images of children that abound in Western art do not simply mirror reality; they are imaginative constructs, representing childhood as a special stage of human life, or emblematic of the human condition itself. In a compelling book ranging widely...

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Fiction

Julius Caesar

Shakespeare William

ISBN: PB: 9780300108095, Yale University Press, October 2006
192 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

The first tragedy to be played in the new Globe Theatre, Julius Caesar is set at a crucial turning point in Roman history, as the Republican gives way to the imperial. Safely removed in time and place from Shakespeare's Elizabethan England, Rome make...

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History of Art

Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery

Boorsch Suzanne, Marciari John, Bensoussan Nicole, Clark Alvin L., Greenberg Susan, Hadley Margaret E., Hodermarsky Lisa, Hoisington Rena, Leja Jan, Munhall Edgar

ISBN: HB: 9780300114331, Yale University Press, October 2006
320 pp., 31.1x23.7 cm, 114 colour images, 116 black&white illus.

This beautiful and important book highlights the collection of European drawings at the Yale University Art Gallery, one of America's premier university museums. From intimate studies to exquisite finished compositions, this selection of works docume...

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Europe

Numbered Days Diaries and the Holocaust

Garbarini Alexandra

ISBN: HB: 9780300112528, Yale University Press, October 2006
320 pp., 24.1x16.6 cm

As the Nazis swept across Europe during World War II, Jewish victims wrote diaries in which they grappled with the terror unfolding around them. Some wrote simply to process the contradictory bits of news they received; some wrote so that their child...

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Fiction

Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare William

ISBN: PB: 9780300115642, Yale University Press, October 2006
208 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the wealthy heiress Portia but lacks the necessary funds. He turns to his merchant friend, Antonio, who is forced to borrow from Shylock, a Jewish moneylen...

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History of Art

Old Masters at the Art Institute of Chicago

Feinberg Larry J., Boucher Bruce, Brosens Koenraad, McCullagh Susanne Folds, Mayer Thurman Christa C., Turner Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9780300119510, Yale University Press, October 2006
96 pp., 26x21.5 cm, 45 colour images, 40 black&white illus.

This issue of "Museum Studies" focuses on the Art Institute of Chicago's impressive collection of Old Master paintings, works on paper, textiles, tapestries, and sculptures. With an introduction by Larry Feinberg on the growth and evolution of the mu...

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History of Art

Van Gogh's "Sheaves of Wheat"

Kosinksi Dorothy M., Fratello Bradley, Bruck Laura

ISBN: HB: 9780300117721, Yale University Press, October 2006
112 pp., 27.1x23.6 cm, 50 colour illus.

Vincent Van Gogh viewed wheat as a central metaphor of the cycle of life and the creative process. As such, it was a theme that he consistently explored throughout his career. This book examines the artist's personal and visual fascination with wheat...

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Contemporary Art

One Way or Another Asian American Art Now

Chiu Melissa, Higa Karin M., Min Susette S., Machida Margo, Zia Helen

ISBN: PB: 9780300120592, Yale University Press, October 2006
124 pp., 23.1x22.6 cm, 50 colour images, 15 black&white illus.

Contemporary Asian American artists, with a strong sense of being American and an acute critical consciousness of world matters, grapple with issues of identity in a way that sets them apart from their predecessors. Whereas many Asian American artist...

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Modern West American Landscapes, 1890-1950

Neff Emily Ballew, Lopez Barry

ISBN: HB: 9780300114485, Yale University Press, October 2006
352 pp., 31.2x25.7 cm, 200 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

Drawing extensively from various disciplines including ethnology, geography, geology, and environmental studies, this groundbreaking book addresses shifting concepts of time, history, and landscape in relation to the work of pioneering American artis...

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