ledochowicz.com

History of Art

Age of Picasso and Matisse Modern Art at the Art Institute of Chicago

D'Alessandro Stephanie, Mertz Renee DeVoe

ISBN: HB: 9780300208788, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2014
144 pp., 24.1x24.1 cm, 154 colour, 8 black&white illus.

The Art Institute of Chicago's opportunity to host the International Exhibition of Modern Art, better known as the Armory Show, in 1913 set a radical new course for modern and contemporary art in the United States. This monumental exhibition introduc...

HB:

£20,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Another Light Jacques-Louis David to Thomas Demand

Fried Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300208177, Yale University Press, September 2014
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 40 colour, 110 black&white illus.

In this richly illustrated book Michael Fried – one of the most esteemed and influential art critics and art historians working today – has gathered eight major essays written between 1993 and 2013, on topics ranging from Jacques-Louis David, Theodor...

HB:

£45,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Architecture

Architecture of Paul Rudolph

Rohan Timothy M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300149395, Yale University Press, July 2014
304 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 40 colour images, 185 black&white illus.

Equally admired and maligned for his remarkable Brutalist buildings, Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) shaped both late modernist architecture and a generation of architects while chairing Yale's department of architecture from 1958 to 1965. Based on extensiv...

HB:

£55,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Photography

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Anthony Friedkin The Gay Essay

Cox Julian, Blake Nayland, Myles Eileen

ISBN: PB: 9780300206371, Yale University Press, June 2014
144 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 100 black&white illus.

For more than forty years, American photographer Anthony Friedkin (b. 1949), creating full-frame black-and-white images, has documented people, cities and landscapes primarily in his home state of California. During the culturally tumultuous years of...

PB:

£35,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Cartography

Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus

Tsutsiev Arthur, Seligman Favorov Nora

ISBN: HB: 9780300153088, Yale University Press, May 2014
208 pp., 31.8x24.1 cm, 57 colour maps

"The Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus" is a magnificent collection of fifty-six original maps with commentaries that detail the ethnic, religious, and linguistic makeup of the Caucasus – the region located between the Black and Ca...

HB:

£115,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

After Constructivism

Taylor Brandon

ISBN: HB: 9780300195774, Yale University Press, April 2014
240 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 45 colour images, 97 black&white illus.

When Constructivism emerged shortly after the Russian Revolution, its central principles concerned structure and efficiency in the work of art and the nature and properties of materials. In a handsome and elegantly argued book, Brandon Taylor examine...

HB:

£50,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Art of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910 Treasures from Korea

Woo Hyunsoo, Cho Insoo, Kim Hongkyung, Kim Woollim, Kwon So-Hyun, Moon Dong Soo, Song Unsok, Lee Rose

ISBN: PB: 9780300204124, Yale University Press, April 2014
400 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 250 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

"Art of the Joseon Dynasty" is the first major publication outside of Korea to survey the artistic production of the world's longest-ruling Confucian dynasty, which reigned on the Korean peninsula from 1392 to 1910. The Joseon dynasty left a substant...

PB:

£50,00

QTY:

add books to the list

America

American Zion The Old Testament as a Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil War

Shalev Eran

ISBN: PB: 9780300205909, Yale University Press, April 2014
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The Bible has always been an integral part of American political culture. Yet in the years before the Civil War, it was the Old Testament, not the New Testament, that pervaded political rhetoric. From Revolutionary times to about 1830, numerous Ameri...

PB:

£20,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Ecology

General

Arcadian America The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition

Sachs Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9780300205886, Yale University Press, April 2014
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 70 black&white illus.

<p>Perhaps America's best environmental idea was not the national park but the garden cemetery, a use of space that quickly gained popularity in the mid-nineteenth century. Such spaces of repose brought key elements of the countryside into rapidl...

PB:

£40,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Christianity

Archaeology & Paleontology

Alexander to Constantine Archaeology of the Land of the Bible

Meyers Eric M., Chancey Mark A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205831, ISBN: HB: 9780300141795, Yale University Press, March 2014
392 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 colour images, 203 black&white illus.

This comprehensive and richly illustrated book explores the archaeological record of the land of the Bible from its conquest by Alexander the Great in the fourth century B. C. E. until the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine in the fourth century...

PB:

£21,00

QTY:

HB:

£30,00

QTY:

add books to the list