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History of Art

Art of the Goldsmith in Late Fifteenth-century Germany The Kimbell Virgin and Her Bishop

Smith Jeffrey Chipps

ISBN: PB: 9780300117363, Yale University Press, September 2006
100 pp., 23.3x19.2 cm, 33 colour images, 26 black&white illus.

These beautifully illustrated books by leading experts focus on major paintings, sculptures, and objects from the Kimbell's outstanding permanent collection. Each volume presents the latest advances in scholarship and new insights of interest both to...

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History of Art

Arts in Latin America, 1492-1820

Rishell Joseph J., Stratton-Pruitt Suzanne, Bailey Gauvin Alexander, Bargellini Clara, Blum Dilys E., Hill Boone Elizabeth, Burke Marcus B., Codding Mitchell A., Crespo Alfonso Ortiz, Cummins Thomas B. F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300120035, Yale University Press, September 2006
600 pp., 31.1x25.8 cm, 400 colour images, 250 black&white illus.

By the end of the sixteenth century, Europe, Africa, and Asia were connected to North and South America via a vast network of complex trade routes. This led, in turn, to dynamic cultural exchanges between these continents and a proliferation of diver...

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French

Analyse Linguistique De La Langue Francaise

Antes Theresa A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300109443, Yale University Press, June 2006
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

"Analyse Linguistique de la Langue Francaise" provides a complete examination of the French language, in French, at a level appropriate for non-native speakers and non-linguists. It introduces readers to linguistic analysis, using modern French as it...

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Architecture

Art, Design, and Architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1920

Clegg Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300111200, Yale University Press, May 2006
356 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 60 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

In this unprecedentedly wide-ranging account of art, design, and architecture in the complex Central Europe of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during its momentous last decades, Elizabeth Clegg achieves a forceful integration of political and cultural de...

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Contemporary Art

Artist's Reality Philosophies of Art

Rothko Mark, Rothko Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780300115857, Yale University Press, March 2006
176 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 7 colour illus.

One of the most important artists of the twentieth century, Mark Rothko (1903-1970) created a new and impassioned form of abstract painting over the course of his career. Rothko also wrote a number of essays and critical reviews during his lifetime,...

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History of Art

America and the Sea Treasures from the Collections of Mystic Seaport

Lash Stephen S., Finamore Daniel, Whitman Nicholas, Ronnberg Erik A.R., Fowler William, McManus Michael, Cooper Ryan M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300114027, Yale University Press, January 2006
159 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, duotone, 175 colour illus.

The history of America is largely a history of the sea. This marvellous book features a selection of more than two hundred of the finest objects from Mystic Seaport that tell the history of America and its maritime heritage. Presented with accessible...

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History of Art

Artist and the Garden

Strong Roy

ISBN: PB: 9780300111163, Yale University Press, October 2005
304 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 220 colour images, 140 black&white illus.

This extraordinarily beautiful book gathers together and examines for the first time a delightful collection of English gardens rendered by artists from 1540 to the early nineteenth century, many of which are unknown. Sir Roy Strong, widely recognise...

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Judaism

Jewish Studies

Ancient Synagogue The First Thousand Years

Levine Lee I.

ISBN: PB: 9780300106282, Yale University Press, October 2005
816 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

In his comprehensive history of the synagogue from the Hellenistic period through Late Antiquity, Lee Levine traces the origins and development of this dynamic and revolutionary institution. This revised paperback edition reflects the latest informat...

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History of Art

After Sir Joshua, Volume 15 Essays on British Art and Cultural History

Wendorf Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300107340, Yale University Press, July 2005
256 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 16 colour images, 26 black&white illus.

Following in the methodological footsteps of his prize-winning Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Painter in Society, Richard Wendorf's new book on British art in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is an experiment in cultural history, combining the analy...

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Architecture

Architecture and Society in Normandy, 1120-1270

Grant Lindy

ISBN: HB: 9780300106862, Yale University Press, May 2005
256 pp., 28x22 cm, 220 black&white illus.

This wide-ranging book explores the architecture, principally ecclesiastical, of Normandy from 1120 to 1270, a period of profound social, cultural, and political change. In 1204, control of the duchy of Normandy passed from the hands of the Anglo-Nor...

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