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Decorative Arts

Jean Schlumberger The Rachel Lambert Mellon Collection from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Couser Kristie

ISBN: HB: 9780300238747, Yale University Press, November 2018
120 pp., 26.7x26.7 cm, 134 colour and black&white illus.

Famous for his inventive interpretations of animal and botanical subjects, artist-jeweler Jean Schlumberger (1907-1987) played a key role in 20th-century fashion with his vibrant sculptural designs for whimsical jewelry and accessories. After beginni...

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Decorative Arts

Jewelry The Body Transformed

Holcomb Melanie, Benzel Kim, Lee Soyoung, Craig Patch Diana, Pillsbury Joanne

ISBN: HB: 9781588396501, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2018
272 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 300 colour illus.

As an art form, jewelry is defined primarily through its connection to and interaction with the body – extending it, amplifying it, accentuating it, distorting it, concealing it, or transforming it. But how is the meaning of jewelry bound to the body...

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Film Studies

Jennifer Steinkamp Blind Eye

Saltzman Lisa, Ewing James

ISBN: PB: 9780300237054, Yale University Press, October 2018
80 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 50 colour illus.

Best known for immersive video projections that use digitally animated natural and abstract forms to investigate themes such as the passage of time and organic movement, Jennifer Steinkamp (b. 1958) is one of today's most innovative artists. Featurin...

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Biography & Memoires

Performing Arts

Jerome Robbins A Life in Dance

Lesser Wendy

ISBN: HB: 9780300197594, Yale University Press, October 2018
216 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Jerome Robbins (1918-1998) was born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz and grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey, where his Russian-Jewish immigrant parents owned the Comfort Corset Company. Robbins, who was drawn to dance at a young age, resisted the idea of joini...

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Contemporary Art

Josef Albers Interaction

Liesbrock Heinz, Growe Ulrike, Albers Anni, Beggs Michael, Danilowitz Brenda, Darwent Charles, Judd Donald, Pelkonen Eeva-Liisa, Redensek Jeannette, Zeniuk Jerry

ISBN: HB: 9780300240832, Yale University Press, July 2018
304 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 140 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

"Only appearances are not deceiving" – Josef Albers Josef Albers (1888-1976) was one of the leading pioneers of 20th-century modernism: he was an extraordinary teacher, writer, painter, and color theorist, who is best known for the "Homages to the S...

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Literary Criticism

Journeying

Magris Claudio, Appel Anne Milano

ISBN: HB: 9780300218510, Yale University Press, May 2018
288 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

A writer of enormous erudition and wide-ranging travels, Claudio Magris selects for this volume writings penned during trips and wanderings over the span of several decades. He has traveled through these years with many beloved companions, to whom he...

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Political Science

Justice of Contradictions Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption

Hasen Richard L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300228649, Yale University Press, May 2018
248 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.

Engaging but caustic and openly ideological, Antonin Scalia was among the most influential justices ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court. In this fascinating new book, legal scholar Richard L. Hasen assesses Scalia's complex legacy as a c...

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Japanese

Japanese: The Written Language Volume 2: Workbook

Jorden Eleanor Harz, Noda Mari, Itomitsu Masayuki, Marcus Ginger

ISBN: PB: 9780300109535, Yale University Press, April 2018
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The second volume of "Japanese: The Written Language" guides high-beginning learners toward proficiency in reading and composing Japanese in realistic contexts. Building on the katakana syllabary presented in Volume 1, it introduces the hiragana syll...

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Japanese

Japanese: The Written Language Volume 2: Textbook

Jorden Eleanor Harz, Noda Mari, Itomitsu Masayuki, Marcus Ginger

ISBN: PB: 9780300109542, Yale University Press, April 2018
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 90 black&white illus.

The second volume of "Japanese: The Written Language" guides high-beginning learners toward proficiency in reading and composing Japanese in realistic contexts. Building on the katakana syllabary presented in Volume 1, it introduces the hiragana syll...

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Jewish Studies

Polonica

Jewish Materialism The Intellectual Revolution of the 1870s

Stern Eliyahu

ISBN: HB: 9780300221800, Yale University Press, March 2018
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

To understand the organizing framework of modern Judaism, Eliyahu Stern believes that we should look deeper and farther than the Holocaust, the establishment of the State of Israel, and the influence and affluence of American Jewry. Against the revol...

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