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Law

Ages of American Law

Gilmore Grant, Bobbitt Philip

ISBN: PB: 9780300189919, Yale University Press, February 2015
192 pp., 21x14 cm

Following its publication in 1974, Grant Gilmore's compact portrait of the development of American law from the eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century became a classic. In this new edition, the portrait is brought up to date with a new chapt...

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History of Art

Alfred Maurer At the Vanguard of Modernism

Epstein Stacey

ISBN: HB: 9780300207804, Yale University Press, February 2015
256 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 176 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

American painter Alfred Maurer (1868-1932) worked within an international circle of avant-garde artists, and his friendships with key figures, including the collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein as well as Dr. Albert Barnes, positioned him at the nexus o...

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Europe

Artists Under Hitler Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany

Petropoulos Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300197471, Yale University Press, December 2014
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., 44 black&white illus.

What are we to make of those cultural figures, many with significant international reputations, who tried to find accommodation with the Nazi regime? Jonathan Petropoulos asks in this exploration of some of the most acute moral questions of the Third...

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History of Art

Ancient Bronzes Through a Modern Lens Introductory Essays on the Study of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Bronzes

Ebbinghaus Susanne, Anderson Lisa, Bewer Francesca G., Bielfeldt Ruth, Eremin Katherine, Hemingway Sean, Lie Henry, Mattusch Carol C., Riederer Josef

ISBN: PB: 9780300207798, Yale University Press, December 2014
208 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 107 colour images, 18 black&white illus.

This publication brings together prominent art historians, conservators and scientists to discuss fresh approaches to the study of ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern works of bronze. Featuring significant bronzes from the Harvard Art Museums' hol...

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Photography

Aaron Siskind

Mora Gilles, Traub Charles

ISBN: HB: 9780300210903, Yale University Press, November 2014
200 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 160 tritone illus.

Aaron Siskind (1903-1991), teacher, journalist and photographer, was an artist of great originality, unprecedented in American photography. This has tended to result in his work being misinterpreted, balanced as it is between the influences of Walker...

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History of Art

Art of the American West The Haub Family Collection at Tacoma Art Museum

Fry Laura F., Hassrick Peter H., Stevens Scott Manning, Stebich Stephanie A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300207606, Yale University Press, November 2014
312 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 350 colour illus.

This handsome book displays an extraordinary breadth of masterworks dating from the 1790s to the present, including over 140 artists in some 350 beautiful colour reproductions. In a variety of media and styles, iconic American artists including Frede...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Auschwitz and After

Delbo Charlotte, Lamont Rosette C., Langer Lawrence L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300190779, Yale University Press, November 2014
384 pp., 21x14 cm

Written by a mamber of the French resistance who became an important literary figure in postwar France, this moving memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and the post-war experiences of women survivors has become a key text for Holocaust studies clas...

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History of Art

American Paintings at Harvard Volume 1: Paintings, Watercolors and Pastels by Artists Born Before 1826

Stebbins Theodore E., Renn Melissa, Anderson Virginia, Blunt Hannah, Grindlay Sandra, Lowrey Carol, Moore Charlotte Emans, Moore Kevin, Orcutt Kimberly, Polemis Alexandra

ISBN: HB: 9780300153521, Yale University Press, November 2014
656 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 554 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

This volume features nearly 500 paintings, watercolours, pastels and miniatures from Harvard University's storied, yet little-known, collection of American art. These works, many unpublished, are drawn from the Harvard Art Museums, the University Por...

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Photography

Catalogue Raisonne

Alexander Gardner The Western Photographs, 1867-1868

Aspinwall Jane Lee, Davis Keith F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208245, Yale University Press, October 2014
200 pp., 28.6x28.6 cm, 275 black&white illus.

Best known for his Civil War photographs, Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) also created two extraordinary bodies of work depicting the transformation of the American West: Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railway and Scenes in the Indian Count...

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Culture Studies

General

App Generation How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World

Gardner Howard, Davis Katie

ISBN: PB: 9780300209341, Yale University Press, October 2014
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.

No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply – some would say totally – involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today's young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book t...

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