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Architecture

Another City Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic

Upton Dell

ISBN: HB: 9780300124880, Yale University Press, July 2008
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 140 black&white illus., 20 colour illus.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, burgeoning American cities like New Orleans and Philadelphia seemed increasingly chaotic. Noise, odours, and a feverish level of activity on the streets threatened to overwhelm the senses. Growin...

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Architecture

Josep Lluis Sert The Architect of Urban Design, 1953-1969

Mumford Eric, Sarkis Hashim, Bacon Mardges, Campbell Robert, Hyde Timothy, Marshall Richard, McAtee Cammie, Mendelson Jordana, Passanti Francesco, Pearlman Jill

ISBN: HB: 9780300120653, Yale University Press, June 2008
256 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 94 black&white illus., 26 colour illus.

This book examines the emergence and evolution of the discipline of urban design as articulated through the work of Josep Lluis Sert (1902-1983), one of its most influential practitioners. Sert came to international attention in the 1930s and '40s as...

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Architecture

Sir John Vanbrugh Storyteller in Stone

Hart Vaughan

ISBN: HB: 9780300119299, Yale University Press, June 2008
256 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 150 black&white illus., 100 colour illus.

This engaging and beautifully illustrated book looks at the remarkable life and work of Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) – by turns businessman, soldier, playwright, and (despite lacking either training or qualifications) the architect of some of the mo...

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History of Art

Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement Picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840

Kriz Kay Dian

ISBN: HB: 9780300140620, Yale University Press, June 2008
288 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 40 colour images, 80 black&white illus.

This highly original book asks new questions about paintings and prints associated with the British West Indies between 1700 and 1840, when the trade in sugar and slaves was the most active and profitable. In a wide-ranging study of scientific illust...

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Contemporary Art

Neohoodoo Art for a Forgotten Faith

Budney Jen, Coleman Danto Arthur, Herzberg Julia, Sirmans Franklin, Tate Greg, Farris Thompson Robert, Troupe Quincy

ISBN: HB: 9780300134186, Yale University Press, June 2008
144 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 60 black&white illus., 40 colour illus.

NeoHooDoo', a phrase coined by the poet Ishmael Reed in 1970, celebrates the practice of rituals, folklore, and spirituality in the Americas beyond the scope of Christianity and organized religion. The endurance of these centuries-old traditions of m...

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Contemporary Art

Solitaire Lee Lozano, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Joan Semmel

Molesworth Helen, Burton Johanna, Meyer Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300125290, Yale University Press, June 2008
164 pp., 23.5x17.1 cm, 84 colour illus.

This compelling book looks at the work of three influential women artists and at the import of feminism in their practices. Painters Lee Lozano (1930-1999), Sylvia Plimack Mangold (b. 1938), and Joan Semmel (b. 1932) are each intensely private and, t...

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History of Art

Northern European and Spanish Paintings Before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago A Catalogue of the Collection

Wolff Martha, Jones Susan Frances, Mann Richard G., Berg Sobre Judith, Hecht Ilse, Klein Peter, Kuniej Berry Cynthia, Silver Larry

ISBN: HB: 9780300119442, Yale University Press, A+D Series, June 2008
480 pp., 28x21 cm, 233 duotone illus., 100 colour illus.

This important volume documents the Art Institute of Chicago's significant, yet relatively unknown, collection of English, French, German, Netherlandish, and Spanish paintings created before 1600. Over 100 altarpieces, private devotional works, portr...

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Christianity

Vatican Secret Diplomacy

Gallagher Charles R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300121346, Yale University Press, June 2008
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 15 black&white illus.

In the corridors of the Vatican on the eve of World War II, American Catholic priest Joseph Patrick Hurley found himself in the midst of secret diplomatic dealings and intense debate. Hurley's deeply felt American patriotism and fixed ideas about con...

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Contemporary Art

On Kawara 10 Tableaux and 20, 834 Pages

Wylie Charles, Laszlo Ervin, Matsui Takafumi

ISBN: HB: 9780300137347, Yale University Press, June 2008
192 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 160 colour illus.

Since the mid-1960s, On Kawara (b. 1933) has objectively recorded his existence through everyday numbers, words, and found images. This handsomely designed and illustrated book presents works selected by the artist from throughout his illustrious car...

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Architecture

Design and Plan in the Country House From Castle Donjons to Palladian Boxes

Gomme Andor Harvey, Maguire Alison

ISBN: HB: 9780300126457, Yale University Press, June 2008
356 pp., 28x23 cm, 200 black&white illus., 80 colour illus.

The way a man thinks about his day-to-day living and the needs of his household reveals a great deal about his ambitions, his idea of himself, and his role in the community. And his house or castle offers many clues to his habits as well as those of...

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