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National Gallery Masterpieces of Painting
ISBN: HB: 9781857096484, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2019
392 pp., 31.1x24.8 cm, 275 colour illus.
This richly illustrated and beautifully designed book offers an ideal introduction to European painting from the 13th to the early 20th century. The National Gallery, London, houses one of the finest collections of Western European art in the world....
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£50,00
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Nicolaes Maes Dutch Master of the Golden Age
ISBN: PB: 9781857096545, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2019
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 120 colour and black&white illus.
This book offers a close look at the art of Dutch Golden Age painter Nicolaes Maes (1634–1693). One of Rembrandt's most talented students, Maes began by painting biblical scenes in the style of his famous teacher. He later produced extraordinary genr...
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£15,00
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Off the Wall American Art to Wear
ISBN: HB: 9780876332917, Yale University Press, November 2019
216 pp., 25.4x21 cm, 250 colour illus.
This is the first publication to consider art to wear, also known as wearable art, as a discrete American movement that mirrored the cultural, political, social, and spiritual concerns of a generation that came of age in the late 1960s and 1970s. Tra...
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£35,00
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Osteology of Deinonychus antirrhopus, an Unusual Theropod from the Lower Cretaceous of Montana 50th Anniversary Edition
ISBN: PB: 9781933789392, Yale University Press, November 2019
196 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 96 black&white illus.
John H. Ostrom's expeditions to the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming and Montana in the 1960s resulted in discoveries and research that would change long-held concepts in paleontology. This fiftieth-anniversary edition of his now well-known description of th...
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£25,00
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Princess of the Hither Isles A Black Suffragist's Story from the Jim Crow South
ISBN: HB: 9780300242607, Yale University Press, November 2019
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
Born during the Civil War into a slaveholding family that included black, white, and Cherokee forebears, Adella Hunt Logan dedicated herself to advancing political and educational opportunities for the African American community. She taught at Alabam...
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£25,00
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Rachel Harrison Life Hack
ISBN: HB: 9780300246858, Yale University Press, November 2019
282 pp., 30.5x23.5 cm, 290 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.
In her sculptures, room-sized installations, drawings, photographs, and artist's books, Rachel Harrison (b. 1966) delves into themes of celebrity culture, pop psychology, history, and politics. This publication, created in close collaboration with th...
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£50,00
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Renaissance of Etching
ISBN: HB: 9781588396495, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2019
304 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 237 colour illus.
The etching of images on metal, originally used as a method for decorating armor, was first employed as a printmaking technique at the end of the 15th century. This in-depth study explores the origins of the etched print, its evolution from decorativ...
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£50,00
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Restoring Williamsburg
ISBN: HB: 9780300248357, Yale University Press, November 2019
296 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 160 colour illus., 210 black&white illus.
Today best known as the world's largest "living history" museum, Williamsburg was the capital of the colony of Virginia in the 1700s and the setting for key debates leading to the American Revolution. Inspired by growing interest in America's colonia...
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£40,00
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Souto de Moura Memory, Projects, Works
ISBN: HB: 9780300248654, Yale University Press, November 2019
432 pp., 25.1x20 cm, 800 colour and black&white illus.
The architect Eduardo Souto de Moura (b. 1952) has won many accolades, including the 2011 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Based in Porto, Souto de Moura studied under Fernando Tavora and worked under fellow Portuguese architect alvaro Siza, with whom he...
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£40,00
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Star Stories Constellations and People
ISBN: HB: 9780300241280, Yale University Press, November 2019
208 pp., 21x14 cm, 34 black&white illus.
We can see love, betrayal, and friendship in the heavens, if we know where to look. A world expert on cultural understandings of cosmology, Anthony Aveni provides an unconventional atlas of the night sky, introducing readers to tales beloved for gene...
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£20,00
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