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History of Art

Reconstructing the Renaissance "Saint James Freeing Hermogenes" by Fra Angelico

Kanter Laurence B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300121360, Yale University Press, September 2008
96 pp., 23.5x19.1 cm, 55 colour images, 3 black&white illus.

Saint James Freeing Hermogenes, an important painting by one of the world's most beloved Renaissance artists, was privately owned and rarely seen until two decades ago, when it was acquired by the Kimbell Art Museum. Now an eminent authority reviews...

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Design

Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs

Cunningham Joseph, Barnes Bruce, Fayen Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780300139099, Yale University Press, September 2008
304 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 321 colour images, 16 black&white illus.

Charles Rohlfs (1853-1936) ranked among the most innovative furniture makers at the turn of the twentieth century. Praised by the international press and exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, his beautiful works grew out of an interestin...

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Contemporary Art

Francis Bacon in the 1950s

Peppiatt Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300151213, Yale University Press, September 2008
224 pp., 27.5x24.5 cm, illus.

From the screaming heads and snarling chimpanzees of the late 1940s to the anonymous figures trapped in tortured isolation some ten years later, British artist Francis Bacon during one crucial decade created many of the most central and memorable ima...

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Photography

Music

State of the Axe Guitar Masters in Photographs and Words

Gibson Ralph, Wilkes Tucker Anne, Paul Les

ISBN: PB: 9780300142112, Yale University Press, September 2008
192 pp., 29.8x21 cm, 80 duotone illus.

In this appealing book, acclaimed photographer Ralph Gibson offers more than sixty intimate black-and-white portraits of guitar masters playing their instruments. Focusing his expert lens on musicians who have lent their unmistakable voices to virtua...

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History of Art

Jan Lievens A Dutch Master Rediscovered

Wheelock Arthur K., DeWitt Lloyd, Dickey Stephanie S., Gifford Melanie, Rubinstein Greg

ISBN: HB: 9780300142136, Yale University Press, September 2008
352 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 230 colour images, 76 black&white illus.

Jan Lievens (1607-1674) was one of the most fascinating and enigmatic Dutch artists of the seventeenth century. Daring and innovative as a painter, printmaker, and draftsman, he created powerful character studies, genre scenes, landscapes, formal por...

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Interior Design

Decorative Arts

European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago

Brosens Koenraad, Bertrand Pascal-Francois, Bremer-David Charissa, Cleland Elizabeth, Delmarcel Guy, Forti Grazzini Nello, Mayer Thurman Christa C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300119602, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2008
450 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 200 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

This lavishly illustrated book presents a rich variety of European tapestries from the Art Institute of Chicago. These exquisite tapestries include medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque examples, manufactured at almost all the major centres of productio...

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Cartoon Art

Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories Volume 2

Brunetti Ivan

ISBN: HB: 9780300126716, Yale University Press, September 2008
400 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, chiefly illus.

Comic art is a vital, highly personal art form in which change – rapid and unpredictable – is the norm. In this exciting new anthology, comic artist Ivan Brunetti focuses on very recent works by contemporary artists engaged in this world of change. T...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

I Corinthians

Fitzmyer Joseph A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300140446, Yale University Press, September 2008
688 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, illus., maps

This new translation of "First Corinthians" includes an introduction and extensive commentary that has been composed to explain the religious meaning of this Pauline epistle. Joseph Fitzmyer discusses all the usual introductory problems associated wi...

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Judaism

Europe

Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague

Rosenberg Yudl

ISBN: PB: 9780300143201, Yale University Press, August 2008
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

This collection of interrelated stories about a sixteenth-century Prague rabbi and the golem he created became an immediate bestseller upon its publication in 1909. So widely popular and influential was Yudl Rosenberg's book, it is no exaggeration to...

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Contemporary Art

Paul McCarthy Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement: Three Installations, Two Films

Iles Chrissie

ISBN: HB: 9780300141382, Yale University Press, August 2008
80 pp., 24.1x22.2 cm, 5 black&white illus., 25 colour illus.

This is the first publication to explore the role of mirrors, spinning, and "neurotic" architecture – a feeling of psychological breakdown – in the work of one of America's most important contemporary artists, Paul McCarthy (b. 1945). The book is pub...

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