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Paul Strand Photography and Film for the Twentieth Century

Barberie Peter, Barnes Martin, Beckman Karen, Bock Amanda N., Jaji Tsitsi Ella, Pellizzari M. Antonella, Gainsburg Samantha

ISBN: PB: 9780300207927, Yale University Press, October 2014
400 pp., 33x30.5 cm, 300 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

Through his amazing variety of innovative images, photographer Paul Strand (1890-1976) played a crucial role in establishing the medium's significance as a modern art form. Celebrating the recent acquisition of the core print collection of the Paul S...

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Contemporary Art

Make it New Abstract Painting from the National Gallery of Art, 1950-1975

Cooper Harry, Breslin David, Jolly Matt

ISBN: PB: 9780300207903, Yale University Press, October 2014
140 pp., 33x22.2 cm, 60 colour illus.

Featuring thirty-five outstanding abstract paintings made between 1950 and 1975 from the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, this fascinating book casts a new glance at a renowned period in the history of art, including works by Ly...

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Contemporary Art

Nam June Paik Becoming Robot

Chiu Melissa, Yun Michelle, Digital Kenzo, Godfrey John, Hakuta Ken, Huffman Jon, Jankowski Christian, Joselit David, Maeda John, Kessler Jon

ISBN: PB: 9780300209211, Yale University Press, October 2014
224 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 140 colour illus.

This new, fully illustrated catalogue on the celebrated progenitor of video art, "Nam June Paik (1932-2006)", brings together a host of scholars, artists and Paik's own collaborators to illuminate the work of this innovative artist. An essay by curat...

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History of Art

Flora Illustrata Great Works from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden

Fraser Susan M., Sellers Vanessa Bezemer

ISBN: HB: 9780300196627, Yale University Press, October 2014
288 pp., 21.6x26 cm, 279 colour and black&white illus.

The renowned LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden counts among its holdings many of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical and horticultural works ever created. More than eight centuries of knowledge, from the twelfth centu...

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History of Art

Navigating the West George Caleb Bingham and the River

Luarca-Shoaf Nenette, Barry Claire, Heugh Nancy, Kornhauser Elizabeth Mankin, Mahon Dorothy, Walker Andrew J, Turk Janeen, Conrads Margaret C., Benjamin Brent R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300206708, Yale University Press, October 2014
200 pp., 26.7x27.9 cm, 174 colour images and 10 black&white illus.

George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) moved to Missouri as a child and began painting the scenes of Missouri life, for which he is now famous, in the 1840s. "Navigating the West" explores how Bingham's iconic river paintings reveal the cultural and econom...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Cambridgeshire Buildings of England

Bradley Simon, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300205961, Yale University Press, October 2014
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour images, 80 black&white illus.

This is the essential companion to the architecture of Cambridgeshire, fully revised for the first time in sixty years. Half of the book is devoted to the famous University city, with its astonishingly rich and varied inheritance of college buildings...

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Photography

Catalogue Raisonne

Alexander Gardner The Western Photographs, 1867-1868

Aspinwall Jane Lee, Davis Keith F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208245, Yale University Press, October 2014
200 pp., 28.6x28.6 cm, 275 black&white illus.

Best known for his Civil War photographs, Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) also created two extraordinary bodies of work depicting the transformation of the American West: Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railway and Scenes in the Indian Count...

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Decorative Arts

Four Centuries of Quilts The Colonial Williamsburg Collection

Baumgarten Linda, Ivey Kimberly Smith, Hurst Ronald

ISBN: HB: 9780300207361, Yale University Press, October 2014
368 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 325 colour images, 80 black&white illus.

Quilts are among the most utilitarian of art objects, yet the best among them possess a formal beauty that rivals anything made on canvas. This landmark book, drawn from the world-renowned collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, highlight...

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Contemporary Art

Cubism The Leonard A. Lauder Collection

Rabinow Rebecca, Braun Emily F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208078, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2014
448 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.

This groundbreaking new history of Cubism, based on works from the most significant private collection in the world today, is written by many of the field's premier art historians and scholars. The collection, recently donated to The Metropolitan Mus...

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Photography

Frank Browne A Life Through the Lens

Davison David, Davison Edwin, Ford Colin

ISBN: HB: 9780300208153, Yale University Press, October 2014
256 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 220 tritone illus.

Born in Cork, Ireland, Francis Browne (1880-1960) was both a distinguished Jesuit and an accomplished photographer. At age 17, before commencing his studies for the priesthood, he embarked on a tour of Europe armed with a camera; Browne continued to...

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