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Contemporary Art

Decade in Conversation A Ten-Year Celebration of The Bucksbaum Award, 2000-2010

Iles Chrissie, Paul Christiane, Foster Carter, Kukielski Tina

ISBN: PB: 9780300167559, Yale University Press, July 2010
88 pp., 24.1x19.7 cm, 46 colour illus.

Established in 2000 by the Martin Bucksbaum Family Foundation and the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Bucksbaum Award is presented biennially to an artist living and working in the U. S. "whose work demonstrates a singular combination of talent a...

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Reference

Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science, and Technology, Volume 1

Bayer Andrea, Becker Lawrence, Caro Federico, Centeno Silvia A., Heywood Ann, Kargere Lucretia, Mahon Dorothy, Rizzo Adriana, Salomon Xavier F., Schorsch Deborah

ISBN: PB: 9780300151602, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010
176 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 75 black&white illus., 100 colour illus.

This is the first volume in a new series focused on the technical study of museum objects through the collaborative efforts of conservators, research scientists, and curators. Written for a professional audience, the publication underscores the impor...

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Political Science

Leviathan Or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill

Hobbes Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300118384, Yale University Press, July 2010
576 pp., 21x14 cm

Written by Thomas Hobbes and first published in 1651, "Leviathan" is widely considered the greatest work of political philosophy ever composed in the English language. Hobbes' central argument – that human beings are first and foremost concerned with...

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Christianity

Virgin of Chartres Making History through Liturgy and the Arts

Fassler Margot E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300110883, Yale University Press, July 2010
624 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 126 black&white illus., 16 colour illus.

Medieval Christians knew the past primarily through what they saw and heard. History was reenacted every year in ritual observances particular to each place and region and rooted in the legends of local saints. This richly illustrated book explores t...

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Contemporary Art

Visual World of French Theory Figuration

Wilson Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780300162813, Yale University Press, July 2010
240 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 80 black&white illus., 30 colour illus.

This book focuses on the remarkable series of encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970s – Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Althusser, Pierre Bourdieu, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Felix Guattari, Jean-Francois Lyotar...

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Current Affairs

Bite the Hand that Feeds You Essays and Provocations

Fairlie Henry

ISBN: PB: 9780300164602, Yale University Press, July 2010
368 pp., 21x14 cm

Henry Fairlie was one of the most colourful and trenchant journalists of the twentieth century. The British-born writer made his name on Fleet Street, where he coined the term 'The Establishment', sparred in print with the likes of Kenneth Tynan, and...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

John Brett, Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painter

Payne Christiana

ISBN: HB: 9780300165753, Yale University Press, June 2010
256 pp., 28x22 cm, 150 black&white illus., 120 colour illus.

Drawing on a wealth of unpublished sketchbooks, journals and writings, this essential guide to John Brett (1831-1902) investigates the painter who was seen as the leader of the Pre-Raphaelite landscape school. As well as the familiar early works, inc...

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History of Art

In and Out of the Marital Bed Seeing Sex in Renaissance Europe

Wolfthal Diane

ISBN: HB: 9780300141542, Yale University Press, June 2010
224 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 70 black&white illus., 30 colour illus.

This book explores images whose sexual content has all too often been either ignored or denied. Each chapter is devoted to a place that artists associated with sexual activity or desire: the bed, the dressing area of the home, the window and doorway,...

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Ecology

Regulating from Nowhere Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity

Kysar Douglas A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300120011, Yale University Press, June 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

Drawing insight from cross-disciplinary sources, Douglas Kysar exposes a critical flaw in the dominant environmental law and policy paradigm of risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis. To compensate for the shortcomings he identifies, Kysar offers...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Ford Madox Brown A Catalogue Raisonne (vol. 1 and 2)

Bennett Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780300165913, Yale University Press, June 2010
686 pp., 28x24.8 cm, 522 black&white illus., 458 colour illus.

Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893) is known predominantly for his close association, from 1848, with the "Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood" and for his masterpiece, "The Last of England" (1852-1855), with its poignant imagery of a young emigrant couple aboard sh...

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