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From the Margins Lee Krasner | Norman Lewis, 1945-1952

Kleeblatt Norman L., Brown Stephen, Saltzman Lisa, Bagneris Mia L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300206494, Yale University Press, September 2014
96 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 64 colour illus.

This captivating book examines two modernist painters – Lee Krasner and Norman Lewis – whose important contributions to Abstract Expressionism have long been underappreciated. To this day, Krasner and Lewis have received little acknowledgment as majo...

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Europe

Men from the Ministry How Britain Saved Its Heritage

Thurley Simon

ISBN: PB: 9780300205244, ISBN: HB: 9780300195729, Yale University Press, September 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 50 black&white illus.

Between 1900 and 1950 the British state amassed a huge collection of over 800 historic buildings, monuments and historic sites and opened them to the public. Nothing like it had ever been seen before. Of course, collections of paintings, sculptures,...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Peterborough Buildings of England

O'Brien Charles

ISBN: HB: 9780300208214, Yale University Press, September 2014
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

Bedfordshire is one of the smallest English counties but encompasses a great variety in landscape and architecture. Its major monument is Woburn Abbey, one of the finest Georgian country houses in England, and the influence of the estate is widely fe...

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Business & Economics

Citizen's Share Reducing Inequality in the 21st Century

Blasi Joseph R., Freeman Richard B., Kruse Douglas L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300209334, Yale University Press, September 2014
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

In the largest study of profit-sharing and employee ownership in years, Joseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman and Douglas L. Kruse investigated dozens of large- and medium-sized companies across all sectors of the United States' economy. The ten-year e...

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Islam

Clerics of Islam Religious Authority and Political Power in Saudi Arabia (Eighteenth-Twenty-first Centuries)

Mouline Nabil, Rundell Ethan S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300178906, Yale University Press, September 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Followers of Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab', often considered to be Islam's Martin Luther, shaped the political and religious identity of the Saudi state while also enabling the significant worldwide expansion of Salafist Islam. Studies of the movement...

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Architecture

George Frederick Bodley and the Later Gothic Revival in Britain and America

Hall Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300208023, Yale University Press, September 2014
352 pp., 28x22 cm, 150 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.

British architect George Frederick Bodley (1827-1907) fundamentally shaped the architecture, art and design of the Anglican Church throughout England and the world; his work survives in the United States, Australia, India and Italy, as well as the Un...

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History of Art

Another Light Jacques-Louis David to Thomas Demand

Fried Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300208177, Yale University Press, September 2014
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 40 colour, 110 black&white illus.

In this richly illustrated book Michael Fried – one of the most esteemed and influential art critics and art historians working today – has gathered eight major essays written between 1993 and 2013, on topics ranging from Jacques-Louis David, Theodor...

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History of Art

Sculpture Victorious Art in an Age of Invention, 1837-1901

Droth Martina, Edwards Jason, Hatt Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300208030, Yale University Press, September 2014
432 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 275 colour images, 150 black&white illus.

"Sculpture Victorious "highlights the diversity, originality and ubiquity of sculptural production during the reign of Queen Victoria. This lavishly illustrated book examines how colourful marbles, bronzes, finely wrought silver, and exquisitely deta...

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Architecture

Tadao Ando at the Clark Shadow and Light

Webb Michael, Pare Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300207880, Yale University Press, September 2014
80 pp., 20.3x20.3 cm, 65 colour and black&white illus.

This beautifully illustrated book celebrates the opening of the new Visitor Center at the Clark Art Institute, designed by Pritzker Prize recipient Tadao Ando. Noted architectural photographer Richard Pare captures the building's indoor and outdoor s...

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History of Art

Owning the Past Why the English Collected Antique Sculpture, 1640-1840

Guilding Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780300208191, Yale University Press, September 2014
320 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 100 colour illus., 200 black&white illus.

In a lively re-examination of the British collectors who bankrupted themselves to possess antique marble statues, "Owning the Past" chronicles a story of pride, rivalry, snobbery, and myopic obsession with posterity and possession. Analyzing the moti...

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