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Contemporary Art

Adrian Villar Rojas The Roof Garden Commission: The Theater of Disappearance

Galilee Beatrice, Rojas Adrian Villar

ISBN: PB: 9781588396211, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2017
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 68 colour illus.

Known for his ephemeral, interconnected installations and monumental sculpture, Argentinian artist Adrian Villar Rojas (b. 1980) transformed The Met Roof into an immersive banquet scene for the 2017 Roof Garden Commission. This book retraces the arti...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Aethelred The Unready

Roach Levi

ISBN: PB: 9780300229721, Yale University Press, August 2017
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

<p>An imaginative reassessment of Aethelred "the Unready", one of medieval England's most maligned kings and a major Anglo-Saxon figure The Anglo-Saxon king Aethelred "the Unready" (978-1016) has long been considered to be ins...

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Criminology

Anatomy of Malice The Enigma of the Nazi War Criminals

Dimsdale Joel E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300226935, Yale University Press, July 2017
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.

<p>When the ashes had settled after World War II and the Allies convened an international war crimes trial in Nuremberg, a psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley, and a psychologist, Gustave Gilbert, tried to fathom the psychology of the Nazi leaders, using ex...

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Contemporary Art

Art of Brutalism Rescuing Hope from Catastrophe in 1950s Britain

Highmore Ben

ISBN: HB: 9780300222746, Yale University Press, June 2017
276 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 40 colour illus., 110 black&white illus.

While most famously associated with numerous mid-century architects, Brutalism was a style of visual art that was also adopted by painters, sculptors, printmakers, and photographers. Taking into account Brutalist work by eminent artists such as Richa...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg Art, Happenings, and Cultural Politics

Haywood Robert E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300222609, Yale University Press, June 2017
272 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 135 colour and black&white illus.

This new interpretation of the structure and meaning of the Happenings produced by Allan Kaprow (1927-2006) and Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) in the late 1950s and 1960s sheds light on the context, theoretical framework, and working practice unique to th...

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Other

Political Science

American Religion, American Politics An Anthology

Kosek Joseph Kip

ISBN: PB: 9780300203516, Yale University Press, June 2017
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Essential primary sources reveal the central tensions between American politics and religion throughout the nation's history. Despite the centrality of separation of church and state in American government, religion has played an important role in t...

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Buddhism

After Buddhism Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age

Batchelor Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300224344, Yale University Press, April 2017
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Some twenty-five centuries after the Buddha started teaching, his message continues to inspire people across the globe, including those living in predominantly secular societies. What does it mean to adapt religious practices to secular contexts? Ste...

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History of Art

Age of Empires Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties

Sun Zhixin, Hsing I-tien, Liu Cary Y., Lu Pengliang, Lan-ying Tseng Lillian, Yates Robin D. S., Hong Yang, Yakina Zhang Zhonglin

ISBN: HB: 9781588396174, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2017
336 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 325 colour illus.

The first in-depth exploration of the artistic and cultural achievements of China's "classical" era. "Age of Empires" presents the art and culture of China during one of the most critical periods of its history – the four centuries from 221 B.C. to...

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Design

History of Art

Another World Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Print Culture

Mainardi Patricia

ISBN: HB: 9780300219067, Yale University Press, April 2017
304 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 166 colour illus., 46 black&white illus.

The remarkable story of the stylistic, cultural, and technical innovations that drove the surge of comics, caricature, and other print media in 19th-century Europe. Taking its title from the 1844 visionary graphic novel by J. J. Grandville, this gro...

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History of Art

Art and Nature in the Middle Ages

Myers Nicole, Pastoureau Michel, Taburet-Delahaye Elisabeth, Zink Michel

ISBN: PB: 9780300227055, Yale University Press, March 2017
136 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 115 colour illus.

This splendidly illustrated book explores the universal and multifaceted theme of nature as manifested in Western European art of the Middle Ages. Fascinating essays consider the concept in the context of medieval philosophy, theology, and poetry. Th...

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