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America

America Dancing From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk

Pugh Megan

ISBN: HB: 9780300201314, Yale University Press, December 2015
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

The history of American dance reflects the nation's tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another. Audiences everywhere embraced the result as deeply American. Using the stories of tapper Bil...

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History of Art

American School Artists and Status in the Late-Colonial and Early National Era

Rather Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780300214611, Yale University Press, December 2015
368 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 77 colour illus., 73 black&white illus.

This fascinating book is the first comprehensive art-historical study of what it meant to be an American artist in the 18th- and early 19th-century transatlantic world. Susan Rather examines the status of artists from different geographical, professi...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Aberdeenshire: South and Aberdeen The Buildings of Scotland

Sharples Joseph, Walker David, Woodworth Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300215557, Yale University Press, November 2015
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

The second of two books exploring the buildings of the north-east of Scotland, this volume surveys Aberdeen – the nation's third-largest city – and the southern area of Aberdeenshire, including the former county of Kincardineshire. Among Aberdeen's a...

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History of Art

Art of Empire The Roman Frescoes and Imperial Cult Chamber in Luxor Temple

Jones Michael, McFadden Susanna

ISBN: HB: 9780300169126, Yale University Press, November 2015
240 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 97 colour illus., 54 black&white illus.

The Luxor Temple of Amun-Re, built to commemorate the divine power of the pharaohs, is one of the iconic monuments of New Kingdom Egypt. In the 4th century C.E., the Roman Imperial government, capitalizing on the site's earlier significance, converte...

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Contemporary Art

American Studio Ceramics Innovation and Identity, 1940 to 1979

Lynn Martha Drexler

ISBN: HB: 9780300212730, Yale University Press, November 2015
432 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 150 colour illus.

In the mid-20th century, ceramics evolved from a utilitarian craft or therapeutic hobby into a well-recognized fine art that continues to occupy a place in today's art world. In this pioneering study, leading scholar Martha Drexler Lynn explores how...

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Middle East

Jewish Studies

Archaeology of Jerusalem From the Origins to the Ottomans

Galor Katharina, Bloedhorn Hanswulf

ISBN: PB: 9780300216622, Yale University Press, November 2015
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 colour images, 185 black&white illus.

In this sweeping and lavishly illustrated history, Katharina Galor and Hanswulf Bloedhorn survey nearly four thousand years of human settlement and building activity in Jerusalem, from prehistoric times through the Ottoman period. The study is struct...

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Contemporary Art

Abstract Bodies Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender

Getsy David J.

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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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Art of American Still Life Audubon to Warhol

Brown Bill, Mitchell Mark D., Pfohl Katie A., Troyen Carol

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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Music

Art of Music

Coleman Patrick, Shaw-Miller Simon, Leppert Richard, Benito Sandra, Brown Michael, Grebl James, Plotek Ariel, Rodrigues Gemma, Sardar Marika, Yu Yu Christina

ISBN: HB: 9780300215472, Yale University Press, October 2015
318 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 280 colour illus.

"The Art of Music" is a handsomely illustrated and rich interdisciplinary look at the mutual influence between music and the visual arts across cultures and eras. The book sheds new light on more familiar artists at the intersection of the visual and...

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Contemporary Art

As it Were... So to Speak A Museum Collection in Dialogue with Barbara Bloom

Bloom Barbara

ISBN: HB: 9780300215731, Yale University Press, October 2015
144 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 20 colour illus., 130 black&white illus.

The installations of the conceptual artist Barbara Bloom (b. 1951) have captivated audiences for decades. Since the 1970s, her work has consistently redefined the way in which viewers understand objects. Bloom siphons meaning from the things with whi...

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