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Artist as Economist Art and Capitalism in the 1960s
ISBN: HB: 9780300232707, Yale University Press, November 2019
244 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 50 colour illus., 35 black&white illus.
Bearing witness to the changing economic landscape amid the Cold War, artists in the 1960s created works that critiqued, reshaped, and sometimes reinforced the spirit of capitalism. At a time when currency and finance were becoming ever more abstract...
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£50,00
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Becoming Diaspora Jews Behind the Story of Elephantine
ISBN: HB: 9780300243512, Yale University Press, November 2019
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
This book tells the story of the earliest Jewish diaspora in Egypt in a way it has never been told before. The colony that lived at Elephantine Island in the fifth century BCE is an icon of the Jewish diaspora, but there is something unusual about it...
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£50,00
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City Beneath A Century of Los Angeles Graffiti
ISBN: HB: 9780300246032, Yale University Press, November 2019
320 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 139 colour illus., 56 black&white illus.
Graffiti written in storm drain tunnels, on neighborhood walls, and under bridges tells an underground and, until now, untold history of Los Angeles. Drawing on extensive research within the city's urban landscape, Susan A. Phillips traces the hidden...
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£40,00
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Crossing the Rubicon Caesar's Decision and the Fate of Rome
ISBN: HB: 9780300241457, Yale University Press, November 2019
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 maps
When the Senate ordered Julius Caesar, conqueror of Gaul, to disband his troops, he instead marched his soldiers across the Rubicon River, in violation of Roman law. The Senate turned to its proconsul, Pompey the Great, for help. But Pompey's respons...
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£25,00
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Dregs of the Day
ISBN: PB: 9780300242775, Yale University Press, November 2019
160 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
The final published work by the renowned Mairtin O Cadhain, this novella follows a widower as he attempts to plan his wife's funeral arrangements without money, direction, or whiskey. Thrown into a desert of unknowing, he knows not where to turn or w...
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£9,99
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Emulating Antiquity Renaissance Buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo
ISBN: HB: 9780300225761, Yale University Press, November 2019
352 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
Focusing on the work of architects such as Brunelleschi, Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo, this extensively illustrated volume explores how the understanding of the antique changed over the course of the Renaissance. David Hemsoll reveals the ways...
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£55,00
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Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History Volume 4: Series, Multiples, Replicas
ISBN: PB: 9780300247619, Yale University Press, November 2019
288 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 246 colour illus.
Volume 4 of the National Gallery of Art's biennial conservation research journal Facture examines the complex themes of series, multiples, and replicas. With a broad historical purview that spans from the Renaissance to the 20th century, this publica...
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£25,00
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Family Record
ISBN: PB: 9780300238310, Yale University Press, November 2019
160 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
A mix of autobiography and lucid invention, this highly personal work offers a deeply affecting exploration of the meaning of identity and pedigree. With his signature blend of candor, mystery, and bewitching elusiveness, Patrick Modiano weaves toget...
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£12,99
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Fernand Khnopff
ISBN: HB: 9780300246506, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2019
304 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 210 colour illus.
In this beautifully illustrated book, Michel Draguet, an internationally recognized authority on fin-de-siecle art, offers an enlightening examination of the life and art of Belgian Symbolist painter Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921). Khnopff achieved wide...
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£45,00
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Golden Prospects Daguerreotypes of the California Gold Rush
ISBN: HB: 9780300246216, Yale University Press, November 2019
168 pp., 27.9x27.9 cm, 172 colour and black&white illus.
The California gold rush was the first major event in American history to be documented in depth by photography. This fascinating volume offers a fresh, comprehensive, and critical look at the people, places, and culture of that historical episode as...
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£35,00
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