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Neo-Impressionism and the Dream of Realities Painting, Poetry, Music
ISBN: HB: 9780300190830, Yale University Press, December 2014
208 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 130 colour illus.
This stunning catalogue explores the creative exchange between Neo-Impressionist painters and Symbolist writers and composers in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Symbolism, with its emphasis on subjectivity, dream worlds, and spirituality, has often b...
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£40,00
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Nam June Paik Becoming Robot
ISBN: PB: 9780300209211, Yale University Press, October 2014
224 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 140 colour illus.
This new, fully illustrated catalogue on the celebrated progenitor of video art, "Nam June Paik (1932-2006)", brings together a host of scholars, artists and Paik's own collaborators to illuminate the work of this innovative artist. An essay by curat...
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£55,00
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Navigating the West George Caleb Bingham and the River
ISBN: HB: 9780300206708, Yale University Press, October 2014
200 pp., 26.7x27.9 cm, 174 colour images and 10 black&white illus.
George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) moved to Missouri as a child and began painting the scenes of Missouri life, for which he is now famous, in the 1840s. "Navigating the West" explores how Bingham's iconic river paintings reveal the cultural and econom...
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£30,00
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Nostalgia Factory Memory, Time and Ageing
ISBN: PB: 9780300205398, Yale University Press, August 2014
192 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
You cannot call to mind the name of a man you have known for 30 years. You walk into a room and forget what you came for. What is the name of that famous film you've watched so many times? These are common experiences, and as we grow older we tend to...
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£10,99
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Neo-Impressionist Portrait, 1886-1904
ISBN: HB: 9780300190847, Yale University Press, April 2014
260 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 105 colour images, 3 black&white illus.
Neo-Impressionism, the style pioneered by Georges Seurat (1859-1891), has long been associated with exquisite landscapes and intriguing scenes of urban leisure. Yet the movement's use of dotted brushwork and colour theory also produced arresting port...
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£55,00
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Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
ISBN: HB: 9780300140903, Yale University Press, February 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 31 black&white illus.
During the 1930s and 1940s, a unique and lasting political alliance was forged among Third Reich leaders, Arab nationalists and Muslim religious authorities. From this relationship sprang a series of dramatic events that, despite their profound impac...
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£30,00
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Nation of Devils Democracy and the Problem of Obedience
ISBN: HB: 9780300193190, Yale University Press, October 2013
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Oxford University political theorist Stein Ringen offers a thought-provoking meditation on the art of democratic rule: how does a government persuade the people to accept its authority? Every government must make unpopular demands of its citizens, fr...
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£46,00
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New Industrial Revolution Consumers, Globalization and the End of Mass Production
ISBN: PB: 9780300197235, ISBN: HB: 9780300117776, Yale University Press, September 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 tables&charts
The rapid emergence of China and India as prime locations for low-cost manufacturing has led some analysts to conclude that manufacturers in the "old economies" – the U. S. , U. K. , Germany, and Japan – are being edged out of a profitable future. Bu...
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New Jersey as Non-Site
ISBN: HB: 9780300174373, Yale University Press, September 2013
176 pp., 27.9x20.4 cm, 150 colour illus.
Between 1950 and 1975, some of the postwar era's most innovative artists flocked to a very unexpected place: New Jersey. Appreciating what others tended to ignore or mock, they gravitated to the state's most desolate peripheries: its industrial waste...
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£30,00
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Northamptonshire Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300185072, Yale University Press, September 2013
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.
Some of England's grandest country houses are to be found in this prosperous rural county. The Elizabethan Renaissance Kirby Hall, the Jacobean mansion at Apethorpe, the late seventeenth-century French-inspired Boughton, Hawksmoor's stately Baroque E...
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£60,00
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