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History of Art

Michel Sittow Estonian Painter at the Courts of Renaissance Europe

Hand John Oliver, Koppel Greta, Borchert Till-Holger, Mand Anu, van Suchtelen Ariane, Weniger Matthias

ISBN: HB: 9780300232868, Yale University Press, February 2018
144 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 90 colour and black&white illus.

This handsome volume is the first in English devoted to Michel Sittow (c. 1469-1525), an artist from Estonia who trained in the tradition of early Netherlandish painting. Sittow worked for many high-profile patrons, including Isabella of Castile in S...

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Architecture

Minoru Yamasaki Humanist Architecture for a Modernist World

Gyure Dale Allen

ISBN: HB: 9780300217094, Yale University Press, February 2018
296 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, 70 colour illus., 119 black&white illus.

Born to Japanese immigrant parents in Seattle, Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986) became one of the towering figures of midcentury architecture, even appearing on the cover of Time magazine in 1963. His self-proclaimed humanist designs merged the modern mat...

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Contemporary Art

Mona Hatoum Terra Infirma

White Michelle, Chave Anna C., Shibli Adania, Solnit Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780300233148, Yale University Press, February 2018
192 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 289 colour and black&white illus.

The work of London-based artist Mona Hatoum (b. 1952) addresses the growing unease of an ever-expanding world that is as technologically networked as it is fractured by war and exile. Best known for sculptures that transform domestic objects such as...

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History of Art

Monet the Collector

Mathieu Marianne, Lobstein Dominique

ISBN: HB: 9780300232622, Yale University Press, January 2018
312 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 150 colour illus.

Claude Monet (1840-1926) was the founder of French Impressionism and remains one of the world's best-known and most beloved painters. His works are on view in many of the finest museums, and details of his storied life are well documented. Less well...

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History of Art

Murillo The Self-Portraits

Salomon Xavier F., Treves Letizia, Alvarez-Garcillan Maria, Centeno Silvia, Garcia-Maiquez Jaime, Keith Larry, Mahon Dorothy, Ryder Nicole

ISBN: HB: 9780300225686, Yale University Press, November 2017
144 pp., 30.2x24.1 cm, 65 colour illus.

This beautiful publication accompanies an exhibition that brings together the only two known self-portraits by Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), one of the finest painters of the Spanish Golden Age. Painted almost twenty years apart, these two r...

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Michelangelo Divine Draftsman and Designer

Bambach Carmen C., Barry Claire, Caglioti Francesco, Cuperi Walter, Elam Caroline, McDonald Mark, Marongiu Marcella, Mussolin Mauro, Rinaldi Furio, Zanchettin Vitale

ISBN: HB: 9781588396372, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2017
400 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 300 colour illus.

The Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was especially celebrated for his disegno, a term that embraces both drawing and conceptual design. Featuring more than 200 drawings as well as paintings, sculpture, and architectural...

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History of Art

Monet Framing Life

Shaw Jill

ISBN: PB: 9780300229172, Yale University Press, November 2017
64 pp., 19.1x15 cm, 30 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

This beautiful publication highlights a treasured painting in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts – "Rounded Flower Bed" ("Corbeille de fleurs") by Claude Monet (1840-1926). The canvas was painted while Monet lived in the Paris suburb of...

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History of Art

Monochrome Painting in Black and White

Packer Lelia, Sliwka Jennifer

ISBN: HB: 9781857096149, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, October 2017
272 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 160 colour illus.

Painting "without color" has long held a fascination for artists. In this striking and original book, the authors explore how and why artists from the 15th century to the present have chosen to paint in black, white, and shades of gray. Sometimes art...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Moral Economy Why Good Incentives are No Substitute for Good Citizens

Bowles Samuel

ISBN: PB: 9780300230512, Yale University Press, October 2017
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 18 black&white illus.

Should the idea of economic man-the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus-determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding "no". Policies that follow from t...

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Contemporary Art

Mark Dion Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist

Erickson Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780300224078, Yale University Press, October 2017
216 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 225 colour illus.

The first book in two decades to consider the entire oeuvre of Mark Dion (b. 1961), this volume examines thirty years of the American artist's pioneering inquiries into how we collect, interpret, and display nature. Part of a generation of artists ex...

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