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History of Art

Global Reception of Heinrich Wolfflin's Principles of Art History Studies in the History of Art, Volume 82

Levy Evonne, Weddigen Tristan

ISBN: HB: 9780300250473, Yale University Press, July 2020
320 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 70 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.

Can the reception of a single, widely disseminated book offer a historical road map for a global art history? This is the question posed by the editors of this volume of essays, which charts the enduring response to the Swiss art historian Heinrich W...

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Contemporary Art

Gerhard Richter Painting After All

Wagstaff Sheena, Buchloh Benjamin H. D.

ISBN: HB: 9781588396853, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2020
280 pp., 26.6x24.1 cm, 230 colour illus.

Over the course of his acclaimed 60-year career, Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) has employed both representation and abstraction as a means of reckoning with the legacy, collective memory, and national sensibility of post–Second World War Germany, in both...

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Poetry

Gathering the Tribes

Forche Carolyn, Kunitz Stanley

ISBN: PB: 9780300246322, Yale University Press, January 2020
80 pp., 21x14 cm

The poems in "Gathering the Tribes" recount experiences from the author's adolescence and young?adult life, closely bound to the natural cycles of the seasons, of generations, of the body's functioning. Many deal with uprootedness – hasty emigrations...

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Christianity

God's Library The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts

Nongbri Brent

ISBN: PB: 9780300248609, Yale University Press, January 2020
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 73 black&white illus.

In this bold and groundbreaking book, Brent Nongbri provides an up-to-date introduction to the major collections of early Christian manuscripts and demonstrates that much of what we thought we knew about these books and fragments is mistaken. While b...

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America

Growing Up with the Country Family, Race, and Nation After the Civil War

Field Kendra Taira

ISBN: PB: 9780300248395, ISBN: HB: 9780300180527, Yale University Press, January 2020
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 42 black&white illus.

Following the lead of her own ancestors, Kendra Field's epic family history chronicles the westward migration of freedom's first generation in the fifty years after emancipation. Drawing on decades of archival research and family lore within and beyo...

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Photography

Golden Prospects Daguerreotypes of the California Gold Rush

Aspinwall Jane L., Davis Keith F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300246216, Yale University Press, November 2019
168 pp., 27.9x27.9 cm, 172 colour and black&white illus.

The California gold rush was the first major event in American history to be documented in depth by photography. This fascinating volume offers a fresh, comprehensive, and critical look at the people, places, and culture of that historical episode as...

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Poetry

Greek Ballad Selected Poems

Ganas Michalis, Connolly David, Barley Joshua

ISBN: HB: 9780300233346, Yale University Press, November 2019
328 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

This is the first English-language collection of work by the renowned Greek poet Michalis Ganas. Originally from a remote village on the northwest border of Greece, Ganas witnessed the Greek Civil War as a young child, and was taken into enforced exi...

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Political Science

Great Delusion Liberal Dreams and International Realities

Mearsheimer John J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300248562, Yale University Press, November 2019
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In this major statement, the renowned international-relations scholar John Mearsheimer argues that liberal hegemony, the foreign policy pursued by the United States since the Cold War ended, is doomed to fail. It makes far more sense, he maintains, f...

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History of Art

Gauguin Atlas

Denekamp Nienke

ISBN: HB: 9780300237269, Yale University Press, November 2019
180 pp., 24.5x18.7 cm, 400 colour illus.

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was an artist perpetually in search of new horizons. This fascinating visual tour reveals the full extent of Gauguin's travels and their influence on his unique style. Gauguin's several lengthy trips to Tahiti and the Marques...

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Performing Arts

God Said This

Nanako Winkler Leah, Akhtar Ayad

ISBN: PB: 9780300243635, Yale University Press, October 2019
112 pp., 22.9x14 cm

This is the first Yale Drama Series winner chosen by Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar, who describes the play as conveying a deeply felt sense of the universal – of the perfection of our parents' flawed love for each other and for us; fo...

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