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Contemporary Art

Delirious Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980

Baum Kelly, Bradnock Lucy, Ryan Tina Rivers

ISBN: HB: 9781588396334, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2017
224 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 241 colour illus.

Addressing the maniacal, eccentric, and disorienting in artworks made between 1950 and 1980, Delirious situates a fascination with the absurd and irrational within the context of the violence and brutality witnessed during World War II as well as the...

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Contemporary Art

Design, Form, and Chaos

Rand Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300230918, Yale University Press, October 2017
240 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 70 colour illus., 55 black&white illus.

Paul Rand (1914-1996) was a pioneer in the field of advertising design and typography, and his work still exerts a profound influence on the design profession. First published to critical acclaim in 1993, and long unavailable, Design, Form, and Chaos...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Difficult Death The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen

Jensen Morten Hoi, Wood James

ISBN: HB: 9780300218930, Yale University Press, October 2017
272 pp., 21x14 cm, 10 black&white illus.

While largely unknown today, Danish writer and Darwin translator Jens Peter Jacobsen was the leading prose writer in Scandinavia in the late nineteenth century and part of a generation that included Henrik Ibsen, Knut Hamsun, and August Strindberg. H...

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Political Science

Islam

Digital World War Islamists, Extremists, and the Fight for Cyber Supremacy

Ullah Haroon

ISBN: HB: 9780300231106, Yale University Press, October 2017
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Social media has dominated the discourse surrounding recent events in the Muslim world – from the seismic events of the Arab Spring and its aftermath, to ISIS's slick online recruitment and digitally documented campaign of terror, to the ongoing civi...

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Design

Contemporary Art

Donald Judd

Raskin David

ISBN: PB: 9780300228687, Yale University Press, September 2017
220 pp., 22.9x27.9 cm, 110 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

This pioneering, critically acclaimed book, originally published in 2010 and now available in paperback, is an authoritative and enlightening guide to a wide array of works by the great American artist Donald Judd (1928-1994). Showcasing the entire b...

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America

Domestic Subjects Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature

Piatote Beth H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300227079, Yale University Press, August 2017
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

Amid the decline of U.S. military campaigns against Native Americans in the late nineteenth century, assimilation policy arose as the new front in the Indian Wars, with its weapons the deployment of culture and law, and its locus the American Indian...

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Europe

Jewish Studies

Deadly Legacy German Jews and the Great War

Grady Tim

ISBN: HB: 9780300192049, Yale University Press, August 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.

This book is the first to offer a full account of the varied contributions of German Jews to Imperial Germany's endeavors during the Great War. Historian Tim Grady examines the efforts of the 100,000 Jewish soldiers who served in the German military...

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Law

Defaming the Dead

Herzog Don

ISBN: HB: 9780300221541, Yale University Press, May 2017
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Do the dead have rights? In a persuasive argument, Don Herzog makes the case that the deceased's interests should be protected. This is a delightfully deceptive works that start out with a simple, seemingly arcane question – can you libel or slander...

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Film Studies

Dreamlands Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016

Iles Chrissie, Archey Karen, Canemaker John, Gunning Tom, Hoberman J., Leslie Esther, Bruno Giuliana, Droitcour Brian, Elcott Noam, Lewis David

ISBN: HB: 9780300221879, Yale University Press, January 2017
256 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 300 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.

A fascinating survey of pioneering work in experimental cinema and art from 1905 to the present day, revealing the high stakes and transformative potential of these forms This generously illustrated publication surveys the work of filmmakers and arti...

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Contemporary Art

Doris Salcedo The Materiality of Mourning

Enriquez Mary Schneider, Salcedo Doris, Khandekar Narayan

ISBN: HB: 9780300222517, Yale University Press, November 2016
196 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 100 colour illus.

A compelling look at Doris Salcedo's works from the past fifteen years, exploring how the artist challenges not only the limits of the materials she uses but also the traditions of sculpture itself Colombian sculptor and installation artist Doris Sal...

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