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Medicine and Magnificence British Hospital and Asylum Architecture, 1660-1815
ISBN: HB: 9780300085365, Yale University Press, November 2000
312 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 96 illus.
The late-17th and 18th centuries represent a golden age in terms of the design and construction of hospitals in Britain and its US colonies. This account of this period of planning and construction considers both the architecture and function of the...
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£30,00
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Modern Life and Modern Subject British Art in the Early Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300083507, Yale University Press, June 2000
344 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 120 black&white illus., 30 colour illus.
In May 1914 the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London opened its exhibition of "Twentieth-Century Art". The catalogue identified four main strands in modern painting but included a fifth group of Jewish artists, hung in the "Small Gallery". In this illum...
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£40,00
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Mark Rothko The Works on Canvas
ISBN: HB: 9780300074895, Yale University Press, August 1998
708 pp., 29.2x29.2 cm, 875 colour illus., 75 black&white illus.
This extraordinary book is the first volume of the definitive catalogue raisonne of the work of Mark Rothko, one of the greatest abstract artists of the twentieth century. It documents Rothko's entire output of paintings on canvas and panel, reproduc...
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£190,00
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Manhood in the Making Cultural Concepts of Masculinity
ISBN: PB: 9780300050769, Yale University Press, July 1991
272 pp., 20.8x13.6 cm
In this cross-cultural study of manhood as an achieved status, the author finds that a culturally sanctioned stress on manliness – on toughness and aggressiveness, stoicism and sexuality – is almost universal, and deeply ingrained in the consciousnes...
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£20,00
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Myth of the State
ISBN: PB: 9780300000368, Yale University Press, September 1961
237 pp., 21x13.3 cm
A great contemporary German philosopher attacks the explosive problem of political myth in our day, and reveals how the myth of the state evolved from primitive times to prepare the way for the rise of the modern totalitarian state. A brilliant surve...
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£16,00
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