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Architecture

James Stirling Revisionary Modernist

Reeser Lawrence Amanda

ISBN: HB: 9780300170054, Yale University Press, February 2013
248 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 129 black&white illus.

James Stirling was one of the most influential architects of the late 20th century. His formally inventive yet historically informed designs inspired a generation of architects in his native England and throughout the world. "James Stirling: Revision...

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America

John Brown's Spy The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook

Lubet Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780300180497, Yale University Press, January 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

John Brown's "Spy" tells the nearly unknown story of John E. Cook, the person John Brown trusted most with the details of his plans to capture the Harper's Ferry armoury in 1859. Cook was a poet, a marksman, a boaster, a dandy, a fighter, and a woman...

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Biography & Memoires

Johnson and Boswell A Biography of Friendship

Radner John B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300178753, Yale University Press, January 2013
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

In this book John Radner examines the fluctuating, close, and complex friendship enjoyed by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, from the day they met in 1763 to the day when Boswell published his monumental "Life of Johnson". Drawing on everything John...

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Photography

Jean-Luc Moulene Opus + One

Diserens Corinne, Fer Briony, Joseph Manuel, McDonough Tom, Raymond Yasmil, Toufic Jalal, Vergne Philippe

ISBN: HB: 9780300188820, Yale University Press, January 2013
264 pp., 29.2x19.1 cm, 100 colour illus.

Since the late 1980s, Jean-Luc Moulene (b. 1955) has developed a body of work informed by a critical investigation of artistic authorship, addressing such issues as autonomy, immanence, and anarchic politics. Although he is best known for his enigmat...

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America

Jeffersons at Shadwell

Kern Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780300187434, ISBN: HB: 9780300153903, Yale University Press, January 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 56 black&white illus.

Merging archaeology, material culture, and social history, historian Susan Kern reveals the fascinating story of Shadwell, the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson and home to his parents Jane and Peter Jefferson, their eight children and over sixty slaves...

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Biography & Memoires

Judaism

Jacob Unexpected Patriarch

Zakovitch Yair

ISBN: HB: 9780300144260, Yale University Press, November 2012
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm

A powerful hero of the Bible, Jacob is also one of its most complex figures. Bible stories recounting his life often expose his deception, lies, and greed, then puzzlingly attempt to justify them. In this book an eminent biblical scholar looks at Jac...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Jay DeFeo A Retrospective

Miller Dana, Duncan Michael, Keller Corey, Mancusi-Ungaro Carol, Marcus Greil

ISBN: HB: 9780300182651, Yale University Press, November 2012
320 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 300 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

Jay DeFeo (1929-1989) was part of a vibrant community of avant-garde artists, poets, and musicians in San Francisco during the 1950s and 1960s. Her circle included Wallace Berman, Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Edward Kienholz, Wally Hedrick, and Michael...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

John Singer Sargent Volume 7: Figures and Landscapes, 1900-1907 (The Complete Paintings)

Ormond Richard, Kilmurray Elaine

ISBN: HB: 9780300177350, Yale University Press, October 2012
400 pp., 31x24.8 cm, 392 colour images, 73 black&white illus.

From 1900 to 1907, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) travelled considerably, visiting the Alps, Italy, Spain, Norway, and Palestine. In Palestine in 1905, he painted a significant group of oils and watercolours as well as a group of studies of the Bedo...

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Architecture

James Wyatt, 1746-1813 Architect to George III

Robinson John Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780300176902, Yale University Press, July 2012
400 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 150 colour images, 170 black&white illus.

James Wyatt (1746-1813) is widely recognized as the most celebrated and prolific English architect of the 18th century. At the start of his lengthy career, Wyatt worked on designs for the Oxford Street Pantheon's neo-Classical interior as well as Dod...

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Photography

Contemporary Art

Jindrich Heisler Surrealism Under Pressure, 1938-1953

Witkovsky Matthew S., Toman Jindrich

ISBN: HB: 9780300179699, Yale University Press, A+D Series, April 2012
144 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 80 colour illus.

Czech poet and photographer Jindrich Heisler (1914-1953) joined the Czech Surrealist Group in 1938, just as Nazi occupation of the country was driving the movement and Czech artists underground. Heisler published his first book of poetry a year later...

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