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America

Against the Grain A Deep History of the Earliest States

James C. Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780300240214, Yale University Press, September 2018
336 pp., 21x14 cm, 13 black&white illus.

Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle...

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Culture Studies

Contemporary Art

Agents of Faith Votive Objects in Time and Place

Weinryb Ittai

ISBN: HB: 9780300222968, Yale University Press, September 2018
384 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 250 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.

Votive objects or ex-votos are a broad category of material artifacts produced with the intention of being offered as acts of faith. Common across historical periods, religions, and cultures, they are presented as tokens of gratitude for prayers answ...

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America

American Enlightenments Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason

Winterer Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780300240269, Yale University Press, September 2018
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 37 black&white illus.

A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revolutionary War The accepted myth of the "American Enlightenment" suggests that the rejection of monar...

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Decorative Arts

American Glass The Collections at Yale

Gordon John Stuart

ISBN: HB: 9780300226690, Yale University Press, September 2018
320 pp., 26x22.9 cm, 190 colour illus.

Glass can be decorative or utilitarian, and its forms often reflect technological innovations and social change. Drawing on an insightful selection from the Yale University Art Gallery and other collections at Yale, "American Glass" illuminates the v...

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Decorative Arts

Art of Iron Objects from the Musee Le Secq des Tournelles, Rouen, Normandy

Morris Kathleen M., Bosc Alexandra, Cathelineau Anne-Charlotte

ISBN: PB: 9780300237047, Yale University Press, August 2018
112 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 65 colour illus.

For centuries, wrought iron was worked with care and craft into objects as diverse as shop signs, balcony railings, and dog collars. This handsome volume brings together thirty-six unique pieces of wrought iron from the celebrated collection of the M...

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America

American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century A Social and Cultural History

Bushman Richard L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300226737, Yale University Press, July 2018
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

In the eighteenth century, three-quarters of Americans made their living from farms. This authoritative history explores the lives, cultures, and societies of America's farmers from colonial times through the founding of the nation. Noted historian R...

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History of Art

Art and Violence in Early Renaissance Florence

Nethersole Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780300233513, Yale University Press, June 2018
320 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 233 colour and black&white illus.

This study is the first to examine the relationship between art and violence in 15th-century Florence, exposing the underbelly of a period more often celebrated for enlightened and progressive ideas. Renaissance Florentines were constantly subjected...

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Contemporary Art

Adel Abdessemed Otchi Tchiornie / L'Antidote

Gielen Denis, Raspail Thierry, de Chassey Eric, Grau Donatien, Nash Mark, Ardenne Paul, Daoud Kamel, Robecchi Michele, Zaya Octavio

ISBN: PB: 9780300236880, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, June 2018
256 pp., 27.5x21 cm, 85 colour illus.

The Algerian-born French artist Adel Abdessemed (b. 1971) works in a wide variety of media including animation, installation, performance, sculpture, and video; through his art he addresses contemporary themes and he reflects the bleak picture of the...

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History of Art

Artist in Edo Studies in the History of Art

Lippit Yukio

ISBN: HB: 9780300214673, Yale University Press, June 2018
304 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 204 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

During the early modern period in Japan, peace and prosperity allowed elite and popular arts and culture to flourish in Edo (Tokyo) and Kyoto. The historic first showing outside Japan of It? Jakuchu's thirty-scroll series titled Colorful Realm of Liv...

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Photography

Analog Culture Printer's Proofs from the Schneider/Erdman Photography Lab, 1981-2001

Quick Jennifer

ISBN: HB: 9780300233032, Yale University Press, June 2018
188 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 141 colour and black&white illus.

Providing an expansive and revelatory look at the collaborative artistic relationship between photographers and printers, this book focuses on the work and practice of Schneider/Erdman, Inc., a Manhattan-based printing business owned by Gary Schneide...

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