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Mother Stone The Vitality of Modern British Sculpture
ISBN: HB: 9780300106855, Yale University Press, September 2005
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 60 colour images, 110 black&white illus.
In "Mother Stone" Anne Middleton Wagner looks anew at the carvings of the first generation of British modernists, a group centered around Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and Jacob Epstein. Wagner probes the work of these sculptors, discusses their sha...
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£30,00
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Modernism in American Silver 20th-century Design
ISBN: HB: 9780300109276, Yale University Press, September 2005
384 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 300 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.
From teaspoons to cocktail shakers and unique objects made for New York World's Fairs, this stunning book examines the influence of modernism upon industrially produced silverware made in the United States from 1925 to 2000. Featuring the Dallas Muse...
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£60,00
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Memory of Judgment Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust
ISBN: PB: 9780300109849, Yale University Press, May 2005
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
This powerful book offers the first detailed examination of the law's response to the crimes of the Holocaust. In vivid prose it offers a fascinating study of five exemplary proceedings-the Nuremberg trial of the major Nazi war criminals, the Israeli...
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£22,00
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Midsummer Night's Dream
ISBN: PB: 9780300106534, Yale University Press, April 2005
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
From the hilarious mischief of the elf Puck to the rough humor of the self-centered Bottom and his fellow players, from the palace of Theseus in Athens to the magic wood where fairies play, Shakespeare's marvelous A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play...
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£4,50
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Modern Persian, Volume 1 Spoken and Written
ISBN: HB: 9780300100518, Yale University Press, April 2005
480 pp., 24x15.6 cm, 1 map
Although Persian is one of the world's oldest languages, in its modern form it is still spoken by more than forty million people in Iran and by more than twenty million people elsewhere. These volumes provide students from beginning to intermediate l...
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£69,00
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Modern Persian, Volume 2 Spoken and Written
ISBN: HB: 9780300100525, Yale University Press, April 2005
480 pp., 24x15.6 cm, 1 map
Although Persian is one of the world's oldest languages, in its modern form it is still spoken by more than forty million people in Iran and by more than twenty million people elsewhere. These volumes provide students from beginning to intermediate l...
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£69,00
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Macbeth
ISBN: PB: 9780300106541, Yale University Press, March 2005
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Perhaps no other Shakespearean drama so engulfs its readers in the ruinous journey of surrender to evil as does Macbeth. A timeless tragedy about the nature of ambition, conscience, and the human heart, the play holds a profound grip on the Western i...
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£4,50
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Men at Work Art and Labour in Mid-Victorian Britain
ISBN: HB: 9780300103809, Yale University Press, January 2005
392 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 33 colour images, 113 black&white illus.
For artists of the increasingly mechanized Victorian age, questions about the meaning and value of labour presented a series of urgent problems: Is work a moral obligation or a religious duty? Must labour be the preserve of men alone? Does the amount...
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£40,00
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Mask of Enlightenment Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780300104516, Yale University Press, December 2004
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
This landmark study is a detailed textual and thematic analysis of one of Nietzsche's most important but least understood works. Stanley Rosen argues that in "Zarathustra" Nietzsche lays the groundwork for philosophical and political revolution, prop...
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£20,00
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Minimalism Art and Polemics in the Sixties
ISBN: PB: 9780300105902, Yale University Press, August 2004
340 pp., 25.8x19.8 cm, 30 colour images, 130 black&white illus.
The simple question "What is minimalism?" has defied simple answers. Artists known as minimalists have distinctively different methods and points of view. This highly readable history of minimalist art shows how artists as diverse as Carl Andre, Dona...
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£30,00
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