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Contemporary Art

Making a Home Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York

Shiner Eric C., Tomii Reiko

ISBN: HB: 9780300126341, Yale University Press, November 2007
250 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

Since the 1950s, many Japanese artists have made their homes and careers in New York, some for enhanced exposure to the international art world or to challenge themselves to take their artwork in new directions, and others to escape restrictions face...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Marsden Hartley and the West The Search for an American Modernism

Hole Heather, Buhler Lynes Barbara

ISBN: HB: 9780300121490, Yale University Press, November 2007
208 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 47 colour images, 88 black&white illus.

Considered the greatest of the early American modernists, the painter Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) travelled the United States and Europe in his search for a distinctive American aesthetic. His stay in New Mexico resulted in an extraordinary series of...

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History of Art

Manet to Picasso The National Gallery

Riopelle Christopher, Appleyard Charlotte, Herring Sarah, Ireson Nancy, Robbins Anne

ISBN: PB: 9781857093339, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, September 2007
72 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 76 colour illus.

This beautiful book provides a brief introduction to Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and early modern paintings made between 1860 and 1905––a highly innovative and exciting time in the history of art––through 38 masterpieces from the remarkable co...

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Contemporary Art

Modern Patronage De Menil Gifts to American and European Museums

Brennan Marcia, Pacquement Alfred, Temkin Ann

ISBN: HB: 9780300123791, Yale University Press, May 2007
175 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 70 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

In the early 1940s, John and Dominique de Menil began to acquire art. Collecting in an intuitive and personal manner, the de Menils gathered "things in which we believe", as John phrased it, and proceeded to develop an inspired collection that would...

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Photography

Marshes The Disappearing Edens

Burt William

ISBN: HB: 9780300122299, Yale University Press, March 2007
160 pp., 23.5x19.1 cm, 92 colour illus.

Drawn since boyhood to the beauty and allure of marshes, naturalist William Burt has prowled them by day and night, in every season, from one edge of North America to the other. For thirty years, he has hauled his large-format camera with him, seekin...

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Contemporary Art

Mar Magdalena Campos-Pons Everything is Separated by Water

Freiman Lisa D., Enwezor Okwui

ISBN: HB: 9780300123456, Yale University Press, February 2007
160 pp., 29.8x24 cm, 80 colour illus.

With a diverse oeuvre ranging from painting to mixed-media installations to performance, video, and photography, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons is one of the most significant artists to emerge from post-Revolutionary Cuba. Her evocative works probe ques...

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History of Art

Making Renaissance Art

Woods Kim W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300121896, Yale University Press, December 2006
352 pp., 28.5x21.5 cm, 200 colour illus.

This book explores key themes in the making of Renaissance painting, sculpture, architecture and prints: the use of specific techniques and materials, theory and practice, change and continuity in artistic procedures, conventions and values. It also...

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History of Art

Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery

Boorsch Suzanne, Marciari John, Bensoussan Nicole, Clark Alvin L., Greenberg Susan, Hadley Margaret E., Hodermarsky Lisa, Hoisington Rena, Leja Jan, Munhall Edgar

ISBN: HB: 9780300114331, Yale University Press, October 2006
320 pp., 31.1x23.7 cm, 114 colour images, 116 black&white illus.

This beautiful and important book highlights the collection of European drawings at the Yale University Art Gallery, one of America's premier university museums. From intimate studies to exquisite finished compositions, this selection of works docume...

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Fiction

Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare William

ISBN: PB: 9780300115642, Yale University Press, October 2006
208 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the wealthy heiress Portia but lacks the necessary funds. He turns to his merchant friend, Antonio, who is forced to borrow from Shylock, a Jewish moneylen...

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History of Art

Modern West American Landscapes, 1890-1950

Neff Emily Ballew, Lopez Barry

ISBN: HB: 9780300114485, Yale University Press, October 2006
352 pp., 31.2x25.7 cm, 200 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

Drawing extensively from various disciplines including ethnology, geography, geology, and environmental studies, this groundbreaking book addresses shifting concepts of time, history, and landscape in relation to the work of pioneering American artis...

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