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Trame A Contemporary Italian Reader

Abbona-Sneider Cristina, Borra Antonello, Pausini Cristina

ISBN: PB: 9780300124958, Yale University Press, April 2009
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

"Trame: A Contemporary Italian Reader" brings together short stories, poems, interviews, excerpts from movie scripts and novels, and other works by 33 renowned authors. The readings cover familiar themes – youth, family, immigration, politics, women'...

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History of Art

Dialogues in Art History, from Mesopotamian to Modern

Cropper Elizabeth, Alpers Svetlana, Hill Boone Elizabeth, Bordes Philippe, Bryan Betsy M., Campbell C. Jean, Connors Joseph, Dempsey Charles, Feldman Marian H., Barry Flood Finbarr

ISBN: HB: 9780300121629, Yale University Press, April 2009
424 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 95 colour images, 167 black&white illus.

This spirited and challenging book presents dialogues between eminent art historians on current topics and dilemmas in the field. The essays consider world art of all periods, covering ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, preconquest Mexico and Peru, Islam, C...

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Contemporary Art

Outside In Chinese x American x Contemporary Art

Silbergeld Jerome, Ching Dora C. Y., Lim Michelle, Liu Cary Y., Seiffert Gregory, Wishart Kimberly

ISBN: HB: 9780300122084, Yale University Press, April 2009
272 pp., 27.3x22.9 cm, 215 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

The art world is currently enthralled with contemporary Chinese art. This thoughtful book argues, however, that American audiences have been exposed only to a narrow range of what is available – with the majority of exposure having been given to avan...

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Photography

More Than One Photographs in Sequence

Smith Joel, Barberie Peter, Baum Kelly, McCauley Anne, Moore Kevin

ISBN: PB: 9780300149302, Yale University Press, March 2009
120 pp., 27.3x21.6 cm, 61 colour images, 32 black&white illus.

The essays in "More than One" examine sequentiality and serialism in the practice of photography from the medium's earliest years to the present. Contributors explore nuances of syntax and sense raised by works like photographic albums, books, themat...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

John Singer Sargent Volume 6: Venetian Figures and Landscapes, 1898-1913 (The Complete Paintings)

Ormond Richard, Kilmurray Elaine

ISBN: HB: 9780300141405, Yale University Press, March 2009
272 pp., 31x24.8 cm, 256 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.

Throughout his career – and particularly in the period from 1898 to 1913 – John Singer Sargent painted the spectacular architecture and scenes of everyday life in Venice, as he sat alongside the Grand Canal or in a gondola in the sleepy side canals....

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History of Art

After Many Springs Regionalism, Modernism, and the Midwest

Bricker Balken Debra, Fleming Jeff

ISBN: HB: 9780300135862, Yale University Press, March 2009
125 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 100 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

"After Many Springs" is the title of a Thomas Hart Benton painting that evokes nostalgia for a fertile, creative time gone by. This bold new book – taking the name of this work by Benton – examines the intersections between Regionalist and Modernist...

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Fashion

Empire's New Clothes A History of the Russian Fashion Industry (1700-1917)

Ruane Christine

ISBN: HB: 9780300141559, Yale University Press, March 2009
256 pp., 27.6x22.6 cm, 50 colour illus., 70 black&white illus.

In 1701, Tsar Peter the Great decreed that all residents of Moscow must abandon their traditional dress and wear European fashion. Those who produced or sold Russian clothing would face "dreadful punishment". Peter's dress decree, part of his drive t...

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Plains of Mars European War Prints, 1500-1825, from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

Clifton James, Scattone Leslie, Fetvaci Emine, Gruber Ira D., Silver Larry

ISBN: HB: 9780300137224, Yale University Press, March 2009
280 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 5 colour images, 164 black&white illus.

From 1500 to 1825, Europe remained in an almost perpetual state of war. Religion, politics, economics, and dynastic ambition all played a role in the turmoil that spread across the continent. War-related printed images also proliferated during this t...

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Philosophy

Plato's Dialectical Ethics Phenomenological Interpretations Relating to the Philebus

Gadamer Hans-Georg

ISBN: PB: 9780300159745, Yale University Press, March 2009
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

"Plato's Dialectical Ethics", Gadamer's earliest work, has now been translated into English for the first time. This classic book, published in 1931 and reprinted in 1967 and 1982, is still important today. It is one of the most extensive and imagina...

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Polonica

Caviar and Ashes A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968

Shore Marci

ISBN: PB: 9780300143287, Yale University Press, March 2009
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

"In the elegant capital city of Warsaw, the editor Mieczyslaw Grydzewski would come with his two dachshunds to a cafe called Ziemianska". Thus begins the history of a generation of Polish literati born at the fin-de-siecle. They sat in Cafe Ziemiansk...

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