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History of Art

Drawings from the Age of Bruegel, Rubens, and Rembrandt Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums

Robinson William W., Anderson Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780300208047, Yale University Press, April 2016
300 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 335 colour illus.

This superb book presents 100 notable examples from the Harvard Art Museums' distinguished collection of Dutch, Flemish, and Netherlandish drawings from the 16th to 18th century. Featuring such masters as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens,...

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History of Art

Dance American Art, 1820-1960

DeFrantz Thomas F., Garafola Lynn, Hart Dakin, Hill Constance Valis, Leppanen-Guerra Analisa, Mercer Valerie J., Murphy Jacqueline Shea, Robertson E.Bruce, Myers Kenneth, Udall Sharyn Rohlfsen

ISBN: HB: 9780300211610, Yale University Press, March 2016
304 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 230 colour illus.

As an enduring wellspring of creativity for many artists throughout history, dance has provided a visual language to express such themes as the bonds of community, the allure of the exotic, and the pleasures of the body. This book is the first major...

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Fashion

Denim Fashion's Frontier

McClendon Emma, Dennis Fred

ISBN: HB: 9780300219142, Yale University Press, March 2016
176 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 100 colour illus.

Denim is one of the world's favorite fabrics, and today it accounts for the largest segment of the clothing industry. The market for jeans alone is worth over 55 billion dollars. Experiments with denim by designers have helped to develop a vast vocab...

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Fiction

Dirty Dust Cre Na Cille

Cadhain Mairtin, Titley Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780300219821, Yale University Press, March 2016
328 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel "The Dirty Dust" is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation for English-language readers has ever before been published. Alan Titley's vigorous new t...

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Political Science

Democracy and the Origins of the American Regulatory State

DeCanio Samuel

ISBN: PB: 9780300198782, Yale University Press, December 2015
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Political scientist Samuel DeCanio examines how political elites used high levels of voter ignorance to create a new type of regulatory state with lasting implications for American politics. Focusing on the expansion of bureaucratic authority in late...

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Photography

Donald Blumberg Words and Images from the American Media

Blumberg Donald, Reynolds Director Jock

ISBN: HB: 9780300215168, Yale University Press, November 2015
140 pp., 24.5x28.6 cm, 162 duotone illus.

Words and Images from the American Media gathers over 162 images that Donald Blumberg has photographed directly from newspapers and television screens since the 1960s. In his most recent work from this series, Blumberg's photographs also include clos...

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Contemporary Art

Drawing Redefined Roni Horn, Esther Klas, Joelle Tuerlinckx, Richard Tuttle and Jorinde Voigt

Gross Jennifer R., Butler Cornelia H., Chaffee Cathleen, Roberts Veronica, Sullivan Lexi Lee

ISBN: HB: 9780300215915, Yale University Press, November 2015
88 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 60 colour illus.

"Drawing Redefined" offers an original, critical look at the distinctive role drawing plays in the processes of five influential contemporary artists. For Roni Horn, Esther Klas, Joelle Tuerlinckx, Richard Tuttle, and Jorinde Voigt drawing is an esse...

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History of Art

Drawn from Courtly India The Conley Harris and Howard Truelove Collection

Cameron Ainsley, Mason Darielle

ISBN: HB: 9780300215250, Yale University Press, November 2015
156 pp., 29.9x24.8 cm, 172 colour illus.

This publication presents the first in-depth survey of the Conley Harris and Howard Truelove Collection of Indian drawings, which was recently acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This exceptional collection, which has never previously been pu...

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General

Database of Dreams The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity

Lemov Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780300209525, Yale University Press, November 2015
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Just a few years before the dawn of the digital age, Harvard psychologist Bert Kaplan set out to build the largest database of sociological information ever assembled. It was the mid-1950s, and social scientists were entranced by the human insights p...

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Architecture

Design for Eternity Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas

Pillsbury Joanne, Sarro Patricia, Doyle James, Wiersema Juliet

ISBN: PB: 9781588395764, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2015
160 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus.

From the first millennium B.C. until the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century, artists from across the ancient Americas created small-scale architectural effigies to be placed in the tombs of important individuals. These works in stone, ceramic,...

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