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Decorative Arts

Design

Georg Jensen Scandinavian Design for Living

Fisher Alison, Taft Maggie, Thulstrup Thomas C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300232998, Yale University Press, July 2018
224 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

In 1904 Danish silversmith Georg Jensen (1866-1935) founded one of the world's most celebrated design companies. Famous for its signature silver tableware that combines gleaming sculptural forms with lush ornament, Jensen's eponymous firm has stood a...

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Landscape Architecture

Contemporary Art

Huma Bhabha: We Come in Peace The Roof Garden Commission

Jhaveri Shanay, Halter Ed, Wagstaff Sheena

ISBN: PB: 9781588396464, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2018
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 40 colour illus.

Often described as "post apocalyptic", the work of Pakistani sculptor Huma Bhabha (b. 1962) responds to the violence and turmoil in the world around her through depictions of anthropomorphic figures that often appear to be dismembered, melted, or dis...

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History of Art

Italian Renaissance Nude

Burke Jill

ISBN: HB: 9780300201567, Yale University Press, June 2018
240 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 120 colour illus.

The first scholarly monograph to focus on the inception of the Italian Renaissance nude, this lively study subverts the idea that the nude in this period was a triumph of classical revival. Looking again at familiar (even overly familiar) images by a...

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Literary Criticism

"Detecting" Patrick Modiano Yale French Studies, Number 133

Golsan Richard J., Higgins Lynn

ISBN: PB: 9780300228892, Yale University Press, June 2018
144 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This volume of "Yale French Studies" offers new perspectives on the work of the 2014 Nobel laureate in literature, Patrick Modiano. Including critical reassessments of themes that have informed, indeed haunted, Modiano's fiction from the outset, this...

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Media Studies

Server A Media History from the Present to the Baroque

Krajewski Markus, Iurascu Ilinca

ISBN: HB: 9780300180817, Yale University Press, June 2018
456 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Though classic servants like the butler or the governess have largely vanished, the Internet is filled with servers: web, ftp, mail, and others perform their daily drudgery, going about their business noiselessly and unnoticed. Why then are current-d...

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History of Art

Art and Violence in Early Renaissance Florence

Nethersole Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780300233513, Yale University Press, June 2018
320 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 233 colour and black&white illus.

This study is the first to examine the relationship between art and violence in 15th-century Florence, exposing the underbelly of a period more often celebrated for enlightened and progressive ideas. Renaissance Florentines were constantly subjected...

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History of Art

Luluwa Central African Art Between Heaven and Earth

Petridis Constantine

ISBN: HB: 9780300222487, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, June 2018
240 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 175 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

Living in the region between the Lubudi and Kasai rivers in south central Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Luluwa people are known for their elaborately carved male and female figure sculptures, masks, and decorative arts. Constantine Petridis d...

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Music

Musical Composition Craft and Art

Belkin Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780300218992, Yale University Press, June 2018
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 125 black&white illus.

This essential introduction to the art and craft of musical composition is designed to familiarize beginning composers with principles and techniques applicable to a broad range of musical styles, from concert pieces to film scores and video game mus...

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Contemporary Art

Adel Abdessemed Otchi Tchiornie / L'Antidote

Gielen Denis, Raspail Thierry, de Chassey Eric, Grau Donatien, Nash Mark, Ardenne Paul, Daoud Kamel, Robecchi Michele, Zaya Octavio

ISBN: PB: 9780300236880, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, June 2018
256 pp., 27.5x21 cm, 85 colour illus.

The Algerian-born French artist Adel Abdessemed (b. 1971) works in a wide variety of media including animation, installation, performance, sculpture, and video; through his art he addresses contemporary themes and he reflects the bleak picture of the...

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Literary Criticism

Name Me a Word Indian Writers Reflect on Writing

Alexander Meena

ISBN: PB: 9780300222586, Yale University Press, June 2018
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A major reexamination of the father of the Hudson River School in relation to his European roots and travels Thomas Cole (1801-1848), arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his generation, is presented here in a new light: as an internati...

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