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Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me And Other Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780300198409, ISBN: HB: 9780300173161, Yale University Press, November 2013
144 pp., 23.4x13 cm
In this inspired translation of "Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me", Ghassan Zaqtan's tenth and most recent poetry collection, along with selected earlier poems, Fady Joudah brings to English-language readers the best work by one of the most important...
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£13,99
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Jewels by JAR
ISBN: HB: 9780300198683, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2013
120 pp., 22.9x20.3 cm, 65 colour illus.
Called "the Faberge of our time" by Diane von Furstenberg, Joel A. Rosenthal, who works in Paris under the name JAR, is one of the most acclaimed jewellery designers of the past thirty years. JAR is known for his use of precious and semi-precious sto...
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Facing the Modern The Portrait in Vienna, 1900
ISBN: HB: 9781857095616, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2013
216 pp., 28.9x22 cm, 140 colour illus.
During the great flourishing of modern art in fin-de-siecle Vienna, artists of that city focused on images of individuals. Their portraits depict artists, patrons, families, friends, intellectual allies, and society celebrities from the upwardly mobi...
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Second Simplicity New Poetry and Prose, 1991-2011
ISBN: PB: 9780300198188, Yale University Press, November 2013
288 pp., 21x14 cm
Yves Bonnefoy, now 87 years old, has enjoyed during the past two decades perhaps the most prolific and innovative period of his splendid lifework. This volume presents in English and French an inviting array of his recent writings, carefully selected...
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£19,00
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Tell it with Pride The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Shaw Memorial
ISBN: HB: 9780300197730, Yale University Press, October 2013
240 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 210 colour illus.
On July 18, 1863, six months after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, one of the first American units composed of African Americans stormed Fort Wagner in South Carolina, led by Colonel Robert Shaw Gould. Although the regiment su...
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Painting under Pressure Reputation and Demand in Renaissance Florence
ISBN: HB: 9780300197976, Yale University Press, October 2013
256 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 25 colour images, 100 black&white illus.
In late 15th-century Italy, there was a growing demand for goods of all types, including art. Painting under Pressure shows how the increased desire for art objects exerted significant pressure on highly sought-after painters. Michelle O'Malley analy...
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£50,00
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Most Musical Nation Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire
ISBN: PB: 9780300198300, Yale University Press, October 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.
No image of prerevolutionary Russian Jewish life is more iconic than the fiddler on the roof. But in the half century before 1917, Jewish musicians were actually descending from their shtetl roofs and streaming in dazzling numbers to Russia's new cla...
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£35,00
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Impressionist France Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet
ISBN: PB: 9780300196955, Yale University Press, October 2013
320 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 359 colour illus.
Between 1850 and 1880, Impressionist landscape painting and early forms of photography flourished within the arts in France. In the context of massive social and political change that also marked this era, painters and photographers composed competin...
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Golden Ass Apuleius
ISBN: PB: 9780300198140, Yale University Press, October 2013
320 pp., 21x14 cm
With accuracy, wit, and intelligence, this remarkable new translation of "The Golden Ass" breathes new life into Apuleius' classic work. Sarah Ruden, a lyric poet as well as a highly respected translator, skilfully duplicates the verbal high jinks of...
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Art and Music in Venice From the Renaissance to Baroque
ISBN: HB: 9780300197921, Yale University Press, October 2013
240 pp., 35.6x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.
Artistic and musical creativity thrived in the Venetian Republic between the early 16th century and the close of the 18th century. The city-state was known for its superb operas and splendid balls, and the acoustics of the architecture led to complex...
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