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Shaker Design Out of This World

Burks Jean M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300137286, Yale University Press, March 2008
320 pp., 30.5x23.5 cm, 350 illus.

Reaching an apogee of 6,000 members in the years just before the American Civil War, the Shaker movement was the most extensive, enduring, and successful utopian society ever established in America. Leaving Manchester in 1776 to avoid persecution, th...

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History of Art

Shape of Time Remarks on the History of Things

Kubler George

ISBN: PB: 9780300100617, Yale University Press, March 2008
148 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

When it was first released in 1962, "The Shape of Time" presented a radically new approach to the study of art history. Drawing upon new insights in fields such as anthropology and linguistics, George Kubler replaced the notion of style as the basis...

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History of Art

Thomas Hope Designer and Patron in Regency London

Watkin David

ISBN: HB: 9780300124163, Yale University Press, March 2008
448 pp., 31x25 cm, 500 illus.

The son of one of the wealthiest merchant bankers in Europe, Thomas Hope (1769-1831) was a major catalyst in the arts of Regency England. At the age of 18, he embarked on a Grand Tour to the Continent that lasted nearly ten years. While travelling, h...

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Photography

Edouard Baldus at the Chateau de la Faloise

Ganz James A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300103526, Yale University Press, March 2008
48 pp., 26x17.7 cm, 30 colour illus.

Edouard Baldus (1813-1889) was the most important French architectural photographer of the mid-nineteenth century. This book offers an in-depth exploration of one of his most intriguing projects – a remarkable series of views of the Chateau de La Fal...

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Contemporary Art

Form, Color, Illumination Suzan Frecon Painting

Helfenstein Josef, Frehner Matthias, Eckhardt Sarah L., Loock Ulrich, Rinder Larry

ISBN: HB: 9780300125528, Yale University Press, March 2008
116 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 20 black&white illus., 46 colour illus.

This is the first major exploration of the works of American abstract painter and watercolourist Suzan Frecon (b. 1941), critically acclaimed for her sensitive arrangement of colour, form, and texture, and for the philosophical resonance of her art....

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Contemporary Art

Fragile Demon Juan Soriano in Mexico, 1935-50

Sullivan Edward J., Fuentes Carlos, Paz Octavio

ISBN: PB: 9780300136883, Yale University Press, March 2008
60 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 12 black&white illus., 33 colour illus.

One of Mexico's most important modern artists, Juan Soriano (1920-2006) served as a link between the nationalist imagery of the Mexican muralists and the experimental vanguard of the 1950s and 1960s known as "La Ruptura". This fascinating book, which...

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Contemporary Art

Alison Watt Phantom

Wiggins Colin, Paterson Don

ISBN: HB: 9781857094121, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, March 2008
72 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 38 colour illus.

British artist Alison Watt (b. 1965) creates monumental paintings depicting richly draped fabric. These canvases show closely cropped folds, gathers, tucks, and creases––all sensuously developed from a selective palette of white, grey, burnt sienna,...

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Photography

Andrew Bush Drive

Bush Andrew, Morrison Patt, Rosenheim Jeff L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300136487, Yale University Press, March 2008
146 pp., 25.4x27.9 cm, 60 colour illus.

Many of us know that automobiles are expressions of our individuality and personality. We may not realize, however, that the car can also provide the most space over which we have complete control in our daily lives. Being in the car is private and p...

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History of Art

Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia The Pleasure and the Power

Stites Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300137576, Yale University Press, February 2008
640 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 72 black&white illus.

Serf-era and provincial Russia heralded the spectacular turn in cultural history that began in the 1860s. Examining the role of arts and artists in society's value system, Richard Stites explores this shift in a groundbreaking history of visual and p...

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Contemporary Art

560 Broadway A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991-2006

Eshoo Amy, Cartwright Derrick R., Cuno James, Finch Elizabeth, Helfenstein Josef, Lowry Glenn D., Mickenberg David, Philbin Ann, Powell Earl A., Reynolds Jock

ISBN: HB: 9780300135398, Yale University Press, February 2008
208 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 180 colour illus.

"560 Broadway" is the first book to explore one of this country's most remarkable private collections of modern and contemporary American drawings. Featuring such artists as Sol Lewitt, Mel Bochner, Jasper Johns, and Agnes Martin, the collection of W...

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