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Architecture

Douglas Garofalo

Rosa Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9780300120585, Yale University Press, A+D Series, August 2006
96 pp., 20.9x18.6 cm, 90 colour illus.

Announcing "A+D" (Architecture and Design), a new series from the Art Institute of Chicago, which highlights the work of important architects and designers from around the world. Innovatively designed by the New York firm 2X4, the titles are either h...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Eva Hesse Volume 1 & Volume 2: Paintings, Sculpture

Petzinger Renate, Rosen Barry, Spohn Annette, Daur Jorg

ISBN: HB: 9780300104417, Yale University Press, August 2006
718 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, Volume 1: 153 illus., Volume 2: 208 illus.

The work of Eva Hesse (1936-1970) has been the focus of growing attention over the past few decades. With recent major exhibitions in San Francisco, London, and Wiesbaden, Hesse's tremendous contribution to the art world of the 1960s and 70s is now r...

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History of Art

Clark Brothers Collect Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings from the Collections of Sterling and Stephen Clark

Conforti Michael, Ganz James A., Harris Neil, Vincent Gilbert T., Cohen-McFall Daniel, Lees Sarah, Maurer Susannah, Rand Richard, Simpson Marc

ISBN: HB: 9780300116199, Yale University Press, August 2006
368 pp., 25x28.1 cm, 100 colour images, 150 black&white illus.

Brothers Sterling and Stephen Clark, heirs to the Singer sewing machine fortune, were among the twentieth century's most influential art collectors. This volume examines their magnificent collections, their personal lives and public profiles, and the...

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History of Art

Surrealism and its Others Yale French Studies, Number 109

Conley Katherine, Taminiaux Pierre

ISBN: PB: 9780300110722, Yale University Press, August 2006
224 pp., 23.4x15.4 cm

This issue of "Yale French Studies" on "Surrealism and Its Others"examines the works and theories of writers, artists, and thinkers who positioned themselves and their productions in dialogue with Breton's surrealism. Although surrealism always sough...

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History of Art

Lions, Dragons, and Other Beasts Aquamanilia of the Middle Ages - Vessels for Church and Table

Barnet Peter, Dandridge Pete

ISBN: HB: 9780300116847, Yale University Press, August 2006
256 pp., 28.9x24.9 cm, 100 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

This fascinating book explores the history, techniques and cultural significance of medieval aquamanilia, cast metal objects used to pour water for hand washing in religious and secular contexts. Usually created in appealing animal or human forms, aq...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

William Holman Hunt

Bronkhurst Judith

ISBN: HB: 9780300102352, Yale University Press, July 2006
800 pp., 30.7x26 cm, 150 colour illus., 500 black&white illus.

William Holman Hunt was one of the major artistic talents of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, founded in 1848. Hunt's work was always characterised by great seriousness of purpose – he was the only member of that group to remain committed to its princ...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Ivan the Terrible

de Madariaga Isabel

ISBN: PB: 9780300119732, Yale University Press, July 2006
526 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This compelling biography is the first to encompass the entire life of Ivan the Terrible and to view him in the context of his own time. Notorious for a policy of unrestrained terror – and for killing his own son – his reign was devastating for Russi...

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Decorative Arts

Britannia and Muscovy English Silver at the Court of the Tsars

Allen Brian T.

ISBN: HB: 9780300116786, Yale University Press, June 2006
288 pp., 28x24.8 cm, 200 colour images, 45 black&white illus.

This superbly illustrated book accompanies an exhibition of thirty objects from the exceptional collection of English silver in the Moscow Kremlin Museums, where one of the world's greatest surviving group of English sixteenth- and seventeenth-centur...

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History of Art

British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Wright Christopher, Gordon Catherine, Smith Mary Peskett

ISBN: HB: 9780300117301, Yale University Press, June 2006
850 pp., 29.5x24.8 cm

This book, the first of its kind, sets a new standard as a work of reference covering British and Irish art in public collections from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth. The remit has been as broad as possible. Apart...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Isle of Wight Buildings of England

Wharton Lloyd David, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300107333, Yale University Press, June 2006
348 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, colour illus.

This is a comprehensive guide to the buildings of the Isle of Wight. The beguiling architecture of the many towns, villages and resorts is explored in full, as are the charming villas and cottages ornes dotted around the spectacular coasts. But the I...

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