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Contemporary Art

Modern Eye Stieglitz, MoMA, and the Art of the Exhibition, 1925-1934

Wilson Kristina

ISBN: HB: 9780300149166, Yale University Press, July 2009
256 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 15 colour images, 98 black&white illus.

"The Modern Eye" explores the origins and development of early 20th-century modernism in America through the lens of the major exhibitions that introduced this art to the general public. Author Kristina Wilson shows how modern artists and curators so...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Marginal Jew Volume 4: Law and Love (Rethinking the Historical Jesus)

Meier John P.

ISBN: HB: 9780300140965, Yale University Press, June 2009
752 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 maps

John Meier's previous volumes in the acclaimed series A Marginal Jew are founded upon the notion that while solid historical information about Jesus is quite limited, people of different faiths can nevertheless arrive at a consensus on fundamental hi...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Mark 8-16

Marcus Joel

ISBN: HB: 9780300141160, Yale University Press, May 2009
672 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In the final nine chapters of the "Gospel of Mark", Jesus increasingly struggles with his disciples' incomprehension of his unique concept of suffering messiahship and with the opposition of the religious leaders of his day. "The Gospel" recounts the...

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Design

Matthew Boulton Selling What All the World Desires

Mason Shena

ISBN: HB: 9780300143584, Yale University Press, May 2009
304 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 300 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Matthew Boulton was an eighteenth-century designer, inventor, and industrialist, a consummate businessman, and co-founder of the influential Lunar Society. Now, on the bicentenary of his death, this book surveys his life and extraordinarily varied ac...

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Architecture

Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Reconstructing Urban Landscapes

Berrizbeitia Anita, Goldberger Paul, Amidon Jane, Blum Andrew, Carr Ethan, Jong Erik, Fergusson Peter, Gleeson Rachel, Pollak Linda, Rosenberg Elissa

ISBN: HB: 9780300135855, Yale University Press, May 2009
320 pp., 25.4x27.9 cm, 185 colour illus.

Instilling a poetics of place is a goal of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA), the famous landscape design firm that has created successful public spaces in some of the country's most challenging urban sites. In these locations, nature offers...

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Photography

More Than One Photographs in Sequence

Smith Joel, Barberie Peter, Baum Kelly, McCauley Anne, Moore Kevin

ISBN: PB: 9780300149302, Yale University Press, March 2009
120 pp., 27.3x21.6 cm, 61 colour images, 32 black&white illus.

The essays in "More than One" examine sequentiality and serialism in the practice of photography from the medium's earliest years to the present. Contributors explore nuances of syntax and sense raised by works like photographic albums, books, themat...

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Architecture

Modernist Museum in Perspective The East Building, National Gallery of Art

Alofsin Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780300121599, Yale University Press, March 2009
248 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 58 colour images, 207 black&white illus.

This fascinating book is the first critical examination of the East Building, I. M. Pei's celebrated addition to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Distinguished contributors consider this iconic building from various historical vantage...

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Europe

Master of the House Stalin and His Inner Circle

Khlevniuk Oleg V., Seligman Favorov Nora

ISBN: HB: 9780300110661, Yale University Press, January 2009
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Based on meticulous research in previously unavailable documents in the Soviet archives, this compelling book illuminates the secret inner mechanisms of power in the Soviet Union during the years when Stalin established his notorious dictatorship. Ol...

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Interior Design

Miniature Rooms The Thorne Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago

Hatton Boyer Bruce, Weingartner Fannia

ISBN: HB: 9780300141597, Yale University Press, A+D Series, January 2009
184 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 124 colour illus.

The Thorne Rooms, sixty-eight miniature models of European interiors from the sixteenth century on and American furnishings from the seventeenth century on, have entranced generations of visitors to the Art Institute of Chicago. This charming book sh...

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History of Art

Merchants, Princes and Painters Silk Fabrics in Italian and Northern Paintings 1300-1550

Monnas Lisa

ISBN: HB: 9780300111170, Yale University Press, December 2008
352 pp., 29x24.8 cm, 150 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Covering a period that witnessed the flowering of the Renaissance and the major expansion of the Italian silk industry, this volume examines the Italian silk fabrics depicted in paintings from Italy, England and the Netherlands over the course of 250...

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