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History of Art

Inspiring Impressionism The Impressionists and the Art of the Past

Bray Xavier, Clarke Michael, Collins John, Dumas Ann, House John, Suzman Jowell Frances, Rand Richard, Stevenson Lesley

ISBN: HB: 9780300131321, Yale University Press, October 2007
304 pp., 30.5x25.1 cm, 175 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Inspiring Impressionism explores links between Impressionists and the major European art-historical movements that came before them, demonstrating how often beneath the Impressionists' commitment to capturing contemporary life there lay a deep explor...

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Decorative Arts

Irish Furniture Woodwork and Carving in Ireland from the Earliest Times to the Act of Union

Knight of Glin, Peill James

ISBN: HB: 9780300117158, Yale University Press, April 2007
488 pp., 30.5x25 cm, 400 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

This lavishly illustrated and comprehensive volume is the first devoted entirely to the subject of Irish furniture and woodwork. It provides a detailed survey, encompassing everything from medieval choir stalls to magnificent drawing-room suites for...

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Architecture

Inigo Jones and the European Classicist Tradition

Worsley Giles

ISBN: HB: 9780300117295, Yale University Press, February 2007
240 pp., 28x22 cm, 60 colour, 140 black&white illus.

In this ground-breaking volume, the first book-length study for forty years on one of England's greatest and most influential classical architects, conventional assumptions about Inigo Jones are turned on their head. Traditionally, Jones has been loo...

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Italian

Italian Through Film The Classics

Borra Antonello, Pausini Cristina

ISBN: PB: 9780300109528, Yale University Press, November 2006
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

"Italian Through Film: The Classics" is a flexible tool for teachers who strive towards content-based instruction and believe that learning a language should be meaningful and enjoyable. It is based around fifteen classic Italian films which are freq...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Imagining Childhood Themes in the Imagery of Childhood

Langmuir Erika

ISBN: HB: 9780300101317, Yale University Press, October 2006
256 pp., 27x20.4 cm, 45 colour images, 55 black&white illus.

The images of children that abound in Western art do not simply mirror reality; they are imaginative constructs, representing childhood as a special stage of human life, or emblematic of the human condition itself. In a compelling book ranging widely...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Ivan the Terrible

de Madariaga Isabel

ISBN: PB: 9780300119732, Yale University Press, July 2006
526 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This compelling biography is the first to encompass the entire life of Ivan the Terrible and to view him in the context of his own time. Notorious for a policy of unrestrained terror – and for killing his own son – his reign was devastating for Russi...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Isle of Wight Buildings of England

Wharton Lloyd David, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300107333, Yale University Press, June 2006
348 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, colour illus.

This is a comprehensive guide to the buildings of the Isle of Wight. The beguiling architecture of the many towns, villages and resorts is explored in full, as are the charming villas and cottages ornes dotted around the spectacular coasts. But the I...

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History of Art

Irish Rural Interiors in Art

Kinmonth Claudia

ISBN: HB: 9780300107326, Yale University Press, April 2006
320 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 75 colour images, 220 black&white illus.

This book offers a fascinating view of many aspects of Irish rural life from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Illustrated with more than 250 images, many of which have not been published before, the book evokes the hardships and celebrati...

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Contemporary Art

Imagining America Icons of 20th-century American Art

Carlin John, Fineberg Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300109979, Yale University Press, October 2005
208 pp., 29.8x22.8 cm, 400 colour illus.

How did artists of the twentieth century use their work to respond to their unique personal experiences and moment in history? This provocative question is explored in this engaging new book on American art. By focusing on broad, defining themes, emb...

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History of Art

Pelican History of Art

Islamic Art and Architecture, 650-1250

Ettinghausen Richard, Grabar Oleg, Jenkins-Madina Marilyn

ISBN: PB: 9780300088694, Yale University Press, July 2003
352 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 350 black&white illus., 150 colour illus.

This illustrated book provides an overview of Islamic art and architecture during a time that witnessed the formation of a new artistic culture and its first, medieval, flowering in the vast area from the Atlantic to India. Inspired by Ettinghausen a...

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