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Rene Magritte: Newly Discovered Works Volume 6: Oil Paintings, Gouaches, Drawings

Whitfield Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780300188752, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, July 2012
164 pp., 32.4x24.1 cm, 130 colour and black&white illus.

Rene Magritte (1898-1967) was a surrealist artist whose thought-provoking works used ordinary objects to challenge how viewers perceived reality. His extensive oeuvre was documented in a comprehensive five-volume project, led by distinguished art cri...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Social Choice and Individual Values

Arrow Kenneth J., Maskin Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780300179316, Yale University Press, July 2012
192 pp., 21x14 cm

Originally published in 1951, "Social Choice and Individual Values" introduced "Arrow's Impossibility Theorem" and founded the field of social choice theory in economics and political science. This new edition, including a new preface by the author a...

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Law

Creative Artist's Guide to the Art of Law

Seiter Bill, Seiter Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9780300161199, Yale University Press, July 2012
350 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 14 black&white illus.

In today's complex media environment, amateur filmmakers and others at work in the media arts may feel as vulnerable as swimmers in shark-infested waters. This guide is designed to give creative artists a solid understanding of the legal concepts the...

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Biography & Memoires

Captain Cook Master of the Seas

McLynn Frank

ISBN: PB: 9780300184310, Yale University Press, July 2012
512 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 4 maps, 45 colour illus.

The age of discovery was at its peak in the eighteenth century, with heroic adventurers charting the furthest reaches of the globe. Foremost among these explorers was navigator and cartographer Captain James Cook of the British Royal Navy. Recent wri...

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Biography & Memoires

Alfred Kazin's Journals

Cook Richard M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187953, ISBN: HB: 9780300142037, Yale University Press, July 2012
512 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 9 black&white illus.

At the time of his death in 1998, Alfred Kazin was considered one of the most influential intellectuals of postwar America. What is less well known is that Kazin had been contributing almost daily to an extensive private journal, which arguably conta...

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History of Art

Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia The Manton Collection of British Art

Clarke Jay A., Barringer Tim, Bermingham Ann, Broadway Mary, Blayney Brown David, Griffiths Antony, Lyles Anne, Noon Patrick, Paisley Leslie, Rauser Amelia F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300179668, Yale University Press, July 2012
272 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 447 colour images, 9 black&white illus.

Business leader and arts patron Sir Edwin A. G. Manton (1909-2005) and his wife Florence, Lady Manton assembled an outstanding collection of 18th- and 19th-century British artwork. A gift to the Clark Art Institute from the Manton Foundation in 2007,...

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Contemporary Art

Wim Delvoye Introspective

Dannatt Adrian, Duquenne Olivier, Marcade Bernard, Swauwaert Dirk, Verschaffel Bart

ISBN: HB: 9780300188677, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, July 2012
384 pp., 29.2x24.8 cm, 317 colour and black&white illus.

Wim Delvoye (b. 1965) is known for his inventive and often controversial projects, and his work has been exhibited around the world. One of a generation of Belgian artists who have revolutionized contemporary art, Delvoye explores the body and its fu...

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History of Art

Matisse In Search of True Painting

Rabinow Rebecca A., Aagesen Dorthe

ISBN: HB: 9780300188578, Yale University Press, July 2012
256 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

More than most artists, Henri Matisse conducted an ongoing dialogue with his earlier works, continually questioning himself and his methods in order to, as he put it, "push further and deeper into true painting". In a fresh approach to this giant of...

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Europe

End of Byzantium

Harris Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780300187915, Yale University Press, July 2012
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

By 1400, the once-mighty Byzantine Empire stood on the verge of destruction. Most of its territories had been lost to the Ottoman Turks, and Constantinople was under close blockade. Against all odds, Byzantium lingered on for another fifty years unti...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Unearthed Recent Archaeological Discoveries from Northern China

Juliano Annette L., An Jiayao

ISBN: HB: 9780300179675, Yale University Press, July 2012
288 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 150 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

In 1908, the American adventurer Robert Sterling Clark organized a scientific expedition to northern China to create a detailed geographical survey, photograph the region and it people, and collect samples of the flora and fauna. Inspired by this imp...

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