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Pop Departures

Manchanda Catharina

ISBN: PB: 9780300208733, Yale University Press, November 2014
104 pp., 31.8x23.5 cm, 80 colour illus.

Pop Art's influence continues to be felt more than a half century since its advent, as this engaging book deftly shows. Early Pop artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, and Andy Warhol adopted alternately critical, embracing or ambivalent...

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Performing Arts

Still

Silverman Jen, Norman Marsha

ISBN: PB: 9780300206357, Yale University Press, November 2014
120 pp., 21x14 cm

In this darkly comic exploration of loss, intimacy and motherhood, three women are joined by a baby who never lived. Morgan, in her middle years, is the grieving mother of a stillborn child. Elena, the failed midwife, burdened by guilt, is considerin...

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Photography

Home and the World A View of Calcutta

McPhee Laura, Ghosh Amitav, Ray Romita

ISBN: HB: 9780300209174, Yale University Press, November 2014
160 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 110 colour illus.

Photographer Laura McPhee, noted for her stunning large-scale landscapes and portraits of the people who live and work in them, has been traveling to eastern India for over a decade. There she has devoted her keen and perceptive vision to picturing l...

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History of Art

Strokes of Genius Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection

McCullagh Suzanne Folds, Goldman Jeanette, Schwed Nicolas

ISBN: HB: 9780300207774, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2014
176 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

This catalogue presents more than fifty masterful Italian drawings from the 16th and 17th centuries: working drawings, preparatory sketches, and finished compositions that have been added in recent years to the private collection of Jean and Steven G...

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History of Art

Benjamin-Constant Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism

Bondil Nathalie

ISBN: PB: 9780300210897, Yale University Press, November 2014
400 pp., 31.1x28.6 cm, 250 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

A leading Orientalist painter during the Third Republic in France, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant was one of the great colourists of the period, and his work evokes the sights he had witnessed during his travels in Spain and Morocco, as well as reflec...

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History of Art

Architecture

City Lost and Found Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980

Bussard Katherine A., Fisher Alison, Foster-Rice Greg

ISBN: PB: 9780300207859, Yale University Press, November 2014
256 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.

American cities underwent seismic transformations in the 1960s and 70s, from shifting demographics and political protests to reshaping through highways and urban renewal. Amid this climate of upheaval, photographers, architects, activists, performanc...

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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Ever Yours The Essential Letters

Gogh Vincent van, Jansen Leo, Luijten Hans, Bakker Nienke

ISBN: HB: 9780300209471, Yale University Press, November 2014
880 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

In addition to his many remarkable paintings and drawings, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) left behind a fascinating and voluminous body of correspondence. This highly accessible book includes a broad selection of 265 letters, from a total of 820 in exi...

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Business & Economics

Bet Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future

Sabin Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300198973, Yale University Press, November 2014
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 24 black&white illus.

In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals captured the public's imagination as a test of coming prosperity or doom. Ehrlich, author of the la...

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Philosophy

Christianity

Experience of God Being, Consciousness, Bliss

Bentley Hart David

ISBN: PB: 9780300209358, Yale University Press, November 2014
376 pp., 21x14 cm

Despite recent ferocious public debate about the likelihood of the existence of God, the most central concept in such arguments remains strangely obscure. What is God? Are those engaged in the debate all talking about the same thing? In this beautifu...

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Philosophy

Culture Studies

Experiments with Truth Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence

Helfenstein Josef, Newland Joseph N., Lal Vinay, Whitehurst Emilee Dawn, Wolf Eric M., Kamps Toby, Hanh Thich Nhat, Kyi Aung San Suu

ISBN: PB: 9780300208801, Yale University Press, November 2014
256 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 150 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

This fascinating book introduces and explores the resonance of Gandhi's (1869-1948) ethics of nonviolence in the visual arts. Taking the form of a reader, the texts range across influences on Gandhian philosophy and outgrowths from it. The accompanyi...

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