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Asia in Amsterdam The Culture of Luxury in the Golden Age
ISBN: HB: 9780300212877, Yale University Press, October 2015
350 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 286 colour illus.
This lavishly illustrated catalogue discusses the Asian luxury goods that were imported into the Netherlands during the 17th century and demonstrates the overwhelming impact these works of art had on Dutch life and art during the Golden Age. Written...
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£45,00
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Anglo-Saxon World
ISBN: PB: 9780300216134, Yale University Press, October 2015
336 pp., 25x15 cm, 100 maps, 50 black&white illus.
The Anglo-Saxon period, stretching from the fifth to the late eleventh century, begins with the Roman retreat from the Western world and ends with the Norman takeover of England. Between these epochal events, many of the contours and patterns of Engl...
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£19,99
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Art for Every Home Associated American Artists, 1934-2000
ISBN: HB: 9780300215793, Yale University Press, September 2015
288 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 205 colour illus.
The Associated American Artists was a commercial enterprise best known for publishing prints by Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, and Grant Wood. Founded in 1934, AAA began as a crucial income opportunity for artists during the Great Depression...
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£35,00
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Age of Catastrophe A History of the West 1914-1945
ISBN: HB: 9780300204896, Yale University Press, September 2015
1016 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Characterized by global war, political revolution and national crises, the period between 1914 and 1945 was one of the most horrifying eras in the history of the West. A noted scholar of modern German history, Heinrich August Winkler examines how and...
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£35,00
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Age of Transition Byzantine Culture in the Islamic World
ISBN: PB: 9780300211115, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
160 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 150 colour illus.
In 2012 the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented "Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition", a groundbreaking exhibition that explored the transformations and continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the 7th to the 9th century. During this time of his...
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£38,00
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Amazing Rare Things The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery
ISBN: PB: 9780300215724, Yale University Press, September 2015
224 pp., 25.1x19.4 cm, 160 colour illus.
The Royal Collection, held at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, and Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, has been shaped by the personal tastes of kings and queens for more than five hundred years. The Collection s exquisite natural history artworks in "Amazin...
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£16,99
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American Census A Social History
ISBN: PB: 9780300195422, Yale University Press, September 2015
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.
This book is the first social history of the census from its origins to the present and has become the standard history of the population census in the United States. The second edition has been updated to trace census developments since 1980, includ...
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£30,00
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Ancient Egypt Transformed The Middle Kingdom
ISBN: HB: 9781588395641, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
400 pp., 31.1x24.9 cm, 365 colour illus., 42 black&white illus., 6 maps
The Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030-1700 B.C.), the second great era of ancient Egyptian culture, was a transformational period during which the artistic conventions, cultural principles, religious beliefs, and political systems formed during earlier dynast...
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£50,00
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Anna Karenina
ISBN: PB: 9780300216820, Yale University Press, September 2015
800 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Tolstoy produced many drafts of "Anna Karenina". Crafting and recrafting each sentence with careful intent, his use of language was anything but casual. His project, translator Marian Schwartz observes, "was to bend language to his will, as an instru...
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Alex Katz This is Now
ISBN: HB: 9780300215717, Yale University Press, August 2015
176 pp., 25.4x30.5 cm, 100 colour illus.
Over the course of a seven-decade career, American artist Alex Katz (b. 1927) has conveyed his singular vision of the world through paintings that fuse realism and abstraction, allowing details to dissolve into bold swaths of color. Though perhaps be...
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£30,00
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