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Fiction

Suspended Sentences Three Novellas

Modiano Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780300198058, Yale University Press, November 2014
232 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Although originally published separately, Patrick Modiano's three novellas form a single, compelling whole, haunted by the same gauzy sense of place and characters. Modiano draws on his own experiences, blended with the real or invented stories of ot...

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Fashion

Exposed A History of Lingerie

Hill Colleen, Steele Valerie

ISBN: HB: 9780300208863, Yale University Press, November 2014
172 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 80 colour illus.

Lingerie is a subject of enduring fascination. As the final barrier to the fully nude body, it is simultaneously modest and erotic. This compelling and eye-catching publication surveys lingerie from the mid-18th century to the present, covering a bro...

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Culture Studies

Long March of Pop Art, Music, and Design, 1930-1995

Crow Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780300203974, Yale University Press, October 2014
448 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 160 colour images, 40 black&white illus.

Thomas Crow's paradigm-changing book challenges existing narratives about the rise of Pop Art by situating it within larger cultural tides. While American Pop was indebted to its British predecessor's insistence that any creative pursuit is worthy of...

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Poetry

Globetrotter

Albahari David, Elias-Bursac Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9780300201321, Yale University Press, October 2014
216 pp., 21x14 cm

Displaced from his home more than twenty years ago as Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia descended into war, Serbian author David Albahari found safety in Canada, where this novel was written. In "Globetrotter", Albahari deals with the bewilderments of exile...

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History of Art

Shadows The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art

Gombrich E. H., MacGregor Neil, Penny Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780300210040, Yale University Press, October 2014
96 pp., 22.5x20 cm, 60 colour illus.

In this intriguing book, E.H. Gombrich, who was one of the world's foremost art historians, traces how cast shadows have been depicted in Western art through the centuries. Gombrich discusses the way shadows were represented – or ignored – by artists...

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Military

Wellington's Wars The Making of a Military Genius

Davies Huw

ISBN: PB: 9780300208658, ISBN: HB: 9780300164176, Yale University Press, October 2014
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington lives on in popular memory as the 'Invincible General', loved by his men, admired by his peers, formidable to his opponents. This incisive book revises such a portrait, offering an accurate – and controversial – n...

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History of Art

Gothic Wonder Art, Artifice and the Decorated Style, 1290-1350

Binski Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300204001, Yale University Press, October 2014
448 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 175 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

In this wide-ranging, eloquent book, Paul Binski sheds new light on one of the greatest periods of English art and architecture, offering ground-breaking arguments about the role of invention, making and the powers of Gothic art. His richly documente...

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History of Art

Design

Grand Design Pieter Coecke Van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry

Cleland Elizabeth A. H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208054, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2014
400 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 350 colour illus.

Renowned throughout Renaissance Europe, Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502–1550) produced works for the wealthiest and most important patrons of the time, including Emperor Charles V, Francis I of France, Henry VIII of England, the Habsburgs, and Cosimo d...

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Architecture

Durham Cathedral History, Fabric and Culture

Brown David

ISBN: HB: 9780300208184, Yale University Press, October 2014
544 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 200 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

For over a millennium Durham has occupied a central place in English religious history, with its Norman rebuilding (1093-1133) marking it as an internationally significant masterpiece in the history of architecture. Its setting, perched on a peninsul...

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Contemporary Art

Julia Wachtel

Thuring Reto, Burton Johanna, Latimer Quinn, Wachtel Julia

ISBN: HB: 9780300209969, Yale University Press, October 2014
80 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 40 colour illus.

Rising to prominence in the early 1980s, Julia Wachtel's (b. 1956) artistic practice focuses on the visual language of mass culture. Like her Pictures Generation counterparts, Wachtel's work in the early 1980s appropriated popular imagery to critique...

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