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History of Art

How to Read Greek Vases

Mertens Joan R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300155235, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2010
112 pp., 30x23.5 cm, 75 black&white illus., 100 colour illus.

How is it possible today to gain insight into the culture that flourished in ancient Greece over 2,500 years ago? Works of art are eloquent intermediaries. This generously illustrated volume provides an introduction to the painted pottery that served...

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History of Art

Closer Look Still Life

Langmuir Erika

ISBN: PB: 9781857095005, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2010
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 80 colour illus.

What is still life? We are familiar with the objects portrayed but have difficulty explaining the essence of this popular art form. Erika Langmuir examines the special fascination of still life, and what distinguishes it from other categories of pain...

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History of Art

Decorative Arts

Closer Look Frames

Penny Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9781857094404, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2010
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 90 colour illus.

Formerly part of the popular "Pocket Guides" series, "Frames" is published in a new edition as "A Closer Look", with a wealth of beautiful reproductions. This informative guide offers an insight into the various forms of frame housing some of the fin...

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Contemporary Art

Blinky Palermo Retrospective 1964-77

Buchloh Benjamin H. D., Cooke Lynne, Hudson Suzanne, Kuper Susanne, Lawrence James

ISBN: PB: 9780300153668, Yale University Press, October 2010
192 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 150 colour illus.

The first retrospective in the U. S. to feature German artist Blinky Palermo (1943-1977) includes more than 60 works, most of which have never before been shown in North America. This beautifully illustrated volume spans the breadth of Palermo's brie...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty War, Religion, Commerce, Terrain, Technology, Uneasiness of Mind, the Spirit of Political Vigilance, and the Foundations of the Modern Republic

Rahe Paul A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300168082, Yale University Press, October 2010
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This fresh examination of the works of Montesquieu seeks to understand the shortcomings of the modern democratic state in light of this great political thinker's insightful critique of commercial republicanism. The western democracies' muted response...

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History of Art

John La Farge's Second Paradise Voyages in the South Seas, 1890-1891

Hodermarsky Elisabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300141351, Yale University Press, October 2010
240 pp., 27.5x21 cm, 170 colour illus.

In 1890, John La Farge (1835-1910) and his close friend, historian Henry Adams, embarked on a journey to the islands of the South Pacific, where the artist experienced a period of great creative output. This book showcases many of the most important...

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America

Dominion from Sea to Sea Pacific Ascendancy and American Power

Cumings Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780300168006, Yale University Press, October 2010
672 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus., 13 colour illus.

America is the first world power to inhabit an immense land mass open at both ends to the world's two largest oceans – the Atlantic and the Pacific. This gives America a great competitive advantage often overlooked by Atlanticists, whose focus remain...

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Cartoon Art

Doonesbury and the Art of G. B. Trudeau

Walker Brian

ISBN: HB: 9780300154276, Yale University Press, October 2010
304 pp., 29.2x24.8 cm, 239 black&white illus., 167 colour illus.

Best known for his wry and incisive takes on American life and politics through the comic strip "Doonesbury", Garry Trudeau is among the world's most widely read cartoonists. Trudeau began shaping "Doonesbury" as an undergraduate contributor to the "...

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Literary Criticism

Thinking in Circles An Essay on Ring Composition

Douglas Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780300167856, Yale University Press, October 2010
192 pp., 21x14 cm, 14 black&white illus.

Many famous antique texts are misunderstood and many others have been completely dismissed, all because the literary style in which they were written is unfamiliar today. So argues Mary Douglas in this controversial study of ring composition, a techn...

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History of Art

Above the Battlefield British Modernism and the Peace Movement, 1900-1918

Brockington Grace

ISBN: HB: 9780300151954, Yale University Press, October 2010
244 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 100 black&white illus., 40 colour illus.

The early twentieth century is usually remembered as an era of rising nationalism and military hostility, culminating in the disaster of the First World War. Yet it was marked also by a vigorous campaign against war which called into question the aut...

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