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Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner
ISBN: HB: 9780300214826, Yale University Press, November 2015
352 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 350 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
For more than 30 years, Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner have devoted themselves to contemporary art, and through their passion and acumen have assembled an extraordinary collection. This handsomely illustrated volume is the first to document t...
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£55,00
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Fashion Underground The World of Susanne Bartsch
ISBN: HB: 9780300214628, Yale University Press, October 2015
168 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 250 colour illus.
Susanne Bartsch has been the queen of New York City nightlife since the 1980s when she first became famous for spectacular parties, where a diverse crowd brought fashion to the level of performance art. Her most important party was undoubtedly the 19...
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£35,00
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Murder of King James I
ISBN: HB: 9780300214963, Yale University Press, October 2015
656 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 97 black&white illus.
A year after the death of James I in 1625, a sensational pamphlet accused the Duke of Buckingham of murdering the king. It was an allegation that would haunt English politics for nearly forty years. In this exhaustively researched new book, two leadi...
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£30,00
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Abstract Bodies Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender
ISBN: HB: 9780300196757, Yale University Press, October 2015
392 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 50 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
Original and theoretically astute, "Abstract Bodies" is the first book to apply the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies to the discipline of art history. It recasts debates around abstraction and figuration in 1960s art through a discussio...
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£50,00
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Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
ISBN: PB: 9780300217384, Yale University Press, October 2015
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
How a plucky coterie of Louisiana shrimp-boat captains faced down the most destructive hurricane in U.S. history – only to realize that the struggle to preserve their centuries-old culture had just begun With a long and colorful family history of def...
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£10,99
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Musical Instruments Highlights from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: PB: 9781588395627, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2015
192 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 175 colour illus.
Featuring more than 100 extraordinary pieces from around the world and spanning thousands of years, this book displays the astounding diversity of musical instruments. Highlights include Bronze Age cymbals, the earliest known piano, violins made by S...
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£18,99
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Those Who Hold Bastogne Inside the Biggest Battle of the Bulge
ISBN: PB: 9780300216141, Yale University Press, October 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
Hitler's last gamble, the Battle of the Bulge, was intended to push the Allied invaders of Normandy all the way back to the beaches. The plan nearly succeeded, and almost certainly would have, were it not for one small Belgian town and its tenacious...
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£9,99
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Dutch Art and Urban Cultures, 1200-1700
ISBN: HB: 9780300205626, Yale University Press, October 2015
492 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 100 colour illus., 180 black&white illus.
Traditionally Dutch art is seen and presented as a coherent phenomenon-the product of state formation in the late 16th century. Elisabeth de Bievre challenges this view and its assumptions in a radical new account. Arguing that the Dutch Golden Age w...
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£50,00
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Art of American Still Life Audubon to Warhol
ISBN: HB: 9780300204117, Yale University Press, October 2015
320 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 230 colour illus.
"The Art of American Still Life" reconsiders the development and cultural significance of still-life painting in America, exploring renowned treasures alongside recently discovered works-some previously unpublished-in unexpected ways. Taking an innov...
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£40,00
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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower In Search of Lost Time
ISBN: PB: 9780300185423, Yale University Press, October 2015
608 pp., 23.5x19 cm
Edited and annotated by leading Proust scholar William Carter, "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower" is the second volume of one of the twentieth century's great literary triumphs. It was this volume that won the Prix Goncourt in 1919, affirming P...
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£18,99
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