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Catalogue Raisonne

Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 1 (1898-1914)

Pierre Arnauld, Clements Candace, Calte Beverley, Camfield William A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208283, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2014
504 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 425 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

This publication is the first of four volumes in the catalogue raisonne of Francis Picabia, one of the most significant, challenging artists of the 20th century. The works in Volume I range from Picabia's early pieces as an Impressionist in 1898 to h...

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History of Art

Flora Illustrata Great Works from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden

Fraser Susan M., Sellers Vanessa Bezemer

ISBN: HB: 9780300196627, Yale University Press, October 2014
288 pp., 21.6x26 cm, 279 colour and black&white illus.

The renowned LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden counts among its holdings many of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical and horticultural works ever created. More than eight centuries of knowledge, from the twelfth centu...

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Decorative Arts

Four Centuries of Quilts The Colonial Williamsburg Collection

Baumgarten Linda, Ivey Kimberly Smith, Hurst Ronald

ISBN: HB: 9780300207361, Yale University Press, October 2014
368 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 325 colour images, 80 black&white illus.

Quilts are among the most utilitarian of art objects, yet the best among them possess a formal beauty that rivals anything made on canvas. This landmark book, drawn from the world-renowned collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, highlight...

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Photography

Frank Browne A Life Through the Lens

Davison David, Davison Edwin, Ford Colin

ISBN: HB: 9780300208153, Yale University Press, October 2014
256 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 220 tritone illus.

Born in Cork, Ireland, Francis Browne (1880-1960) was both a distinguished Jesuit and an accomplished photographer. At age 17, before commencing his studies for the priesthood, he embarked on a tour of Europe armed with a camera; Browne continued to...

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Contemporary Art

Full Circle Works on Paper by Richard Pousette-Dart

Shoemaker Innis Howe, Ash Nancy, Spaulding Eliza

ISBN: PB: 9780300207972, Yale University Press, October 2014
160 pp., 27.3x24.1 cm, 195 colour illus.

Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992) is best known as an American painter of mid-twentieth-century Abstract Expressionism, although his work was distinct for its spiritual content and his elaborate layering of materials. His works on paper are remarkabl...

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Political Science

Failed Statebuilding Intervention, the State, and the Dynamics of Peace Formation

Richmond Oliver

ISBN: HB: 9780300175318, Yale University Press, October 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Western struggles – and failures – to create functioning states in countries such as Iraq or Afghanistan have inspired questions about whether statebuilding projects are at all viable, or whether they make the lives of their intended beneficiaries be...

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Women Studies

Asia

Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union

Wemheuer Felix

ISBN: HB: 9780300195811, Yale University Press, September 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

During the twentieth century, 80 percent of all famine victims worldwide died in China and the Soviet Union. In this rigorous and thoughtful study, Felix Wemheuer analyzes the historical and political roots of these socialist era famines, in which ov...

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Contemporary Art

From the Margins Lee Krasner | Norman Lewis, 1945-1952

Kleeblatt Norman L., Brown Stephen, Saltzman Lisa, Bagneris Mia L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300206494, Yale University Press, September 2014
96 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 64 colour illus.

This captivating book examines two modernist painters – Lee Krasner and Norman Lewis – whose important contributions to Abstract Expressionism have long been underappreciated. To this day, Krasner and Lewis have received little acknowledgment as majo...

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Fiction

Performing Arts

Faust A Tragedy, Parts One and Two

Goethe Johann Wolfgang von, Greenberg Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780300189698, Yale University Press, August 2014
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

A classic of world literature, Goethe's "Faust" is a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humour and tragedy. Martin Greenberg re-creates not only the text's varied metre and rhyme but also its diverse tones and styles – dramatic and...

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Photography

For a Love of His People The Photography of Horace Poolaw

Mithlo Nancy Marie

ISBN: HB: 9780300197457, Yale University Press, August 2014
200 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm

Horace Poolaw (Kiowa, 1906-1984) was born during a time of great change for his American Indian people as they balanced age-old traditions with the influences of mainstream America. A rare American Indian photographer who documented Indian subjects,...

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