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Culture Crash The Mugging of the Creative Class
ISBN: PB: 9780300216936, Yale University Press, December 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Change is no stranger to us in the twenty-first century. All of us must constantly adjust to an evolving world, to transformation and innovation. But for many thousands of creative artists, a torrent of recent changes has made it all but impossible t...
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£12,99
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America Dancing From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk
ISBN: HB: 9780300201314, Yale University Press, December 2015
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
The history of American dance reflects the nation's tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another. Audiences everywhere embraced the result as deeply American. Using the stories of tapper Bil...
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£25,00
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Nietzsche's Orphans Music, Metaphysics, and the Twilight of the Russian Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780300208894, Yale University Press, December 2015
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
A prevailing belief among Russia's cultural elite in the early twentieth century was that the music of composers such as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Aleksandr Scriabin, and Nikolai Medtner could forge a shared identity for the Russian people across social a...
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£75,00
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Wittgenstein Vitrine Modern Opulence in Vienna
ISBN: HB: 9780300214574, Yale University Press, December 2015
88 pp., 28x17.8 cm, 90 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.
The Wittgenstein Vitrine, a monumental silver and gemstone-encrusted cabinet, is one of the most important and complex works produced by Austria's Wiener Werkstatte. Kevin W. Tucker weaves together a fascinating portrait of the vitrine, examining its...
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£20,00
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Engines of Truth Producing Veracity in the Victorian Courtroom
ISBN: HB: 9780300125665, Yale University Press, December 2015
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
During the Victorian era, new laws allowed more witnesses to testify in court cases. At the same time, an emerging cultural emphasis on truth-telling drove the development of new ways of inhibiting perjury. Strikingly original and drawing on a broad...
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£65,00
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Medieval Christianity A New History
ISBN: PB: 9780300216776, Yale University Press, December 2015
544 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 47 black&white illus.
For many, the medieval world seems dark and foreign – a miraculous, brutal and irrational time of superstition and strange relics. The pursuit of heretics, the inquisition, the crusades and the domination of the "Holy Land" come to mind. Yet the medi...
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£19,99
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History of Modern South Asia Politics, States, Diasporas
ISBN: PB: 9780300196948, Yale University Press, December 2015
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.
Noted historian Ian Talbot has written a new history of modern South Asia that considers the Indian Subcontinent in regional rather than in solely national terms. A leading expert on the Partition of 1947, Talbot focuses here on the combined history...
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£25,00
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Pompeo Batoni A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings
ISBN: HB (SET): 9780300148169, Yale University Press, December 2015
750 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 420 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.
This meticulously researched catalogue presents an authoritative assessment of the works of Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787), one of the 18th century's most celebrated painters. Born in Lucca, Batoni established himself in Rome and received commissions from...
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£195,00
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American School Artists and Status in the Late-Colonial and Early National Era
ISBN: HB: 9780300214611, Yale University Press, December 2015
368 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 77 colour illus., 73 black&white illus.
This fascinating book is the first comprehensive art-historical study of what it meant to be an American artist in the 18th- and early 19th-century transatlantic world. Susan Rather examines the status of artists from different geographical, professi...
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£50,00
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Rome 1600 The City and the Visual Arts Under Clement VIII
ISBN: HB: 9780300215298, Yale University Press, December 2015
460 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 80 colour illus., 220 black&white illus.
In 1600 Rome was the center of the artistic world. This fascinating book offers a new look at the art and architecture of the great Baroque city at this time of major innovation-especially in painting, largely owing to the presence of Annibale Carrac...
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£55,00
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