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Contemporary Art

One Way or Another Asian American Art Now

Chiu Melissa, Higa Karin M., Min Susette S., Machida Margo, Zia Helen

ISBN: PB: 9780300120592, Yale University Press, October 2006
124 pp., 23.1x22.6 cm, 50 colour images, 15 black&white illus.

Contemporary Asian American artists, with a strong sense of being American and an acute critical consciousness of world matters, grapple with issues of identity in a way that sets them apart from their predecessors. Whereas many Asian American artist...

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History of Art

Olmec Art and Archaeology in Mesoamerica

Clark John E., Pye Mary E., Arnold Philip J., De La Fuente Beatriz, Diehl Richard A., Gillespie Susan D., Grove David C., Lesure Richard G., Niederberger Christine, Ortiz Ponciano

ISBN: PB: 9780300114461, Yale University Press, March 2006
344 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 11 colour images, 270 black&white illus.

This handsome volume presents the creations of Mesoamerica's most ancient societies in their archaeological contexts. The Olmec, who are best known for a unique style of monumental stone head and jade were-jaguar, were based along the Gulf of Mexico,...

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Fiction

Othello

Shakespeare William

ISBN: PB: 9780300108071, Yale University Press, November 2005
320 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

One of the most powerful dramas ever written for the stage, Othello is a story of revenge, illusion, passion, mistrust, jealousy, and murder. If in Iago Shakespeare created the most compelling villain in Western literature, in Othello and Desdemona h...

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History of Art

Origins of European Printmaking Fifteenth-century Woodcuts and Their Public

Parshall Peter, Schoch Rainer, Field Richard S., Schmidt Peter, Areford David

ISBN: HB: 9780300113396, Yale University Press, September 2005
372 pp., 30.4x24.1 cm, 150 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

This highly anticipated and beautifully illustrated book examines the evolution of early printmaking in late medieval Europe. Through their means of production and the evidence of their utility, prints are explored in a broad social and economic cont...

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Music

Musical Instrument

Oboe

Burgess Geoffrey, Haynes Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780300100532, Yale University Press, January 2004
352 pp., 23.4x19 cm, discography, 45 black&white illus., 20 colour illus.

The oboe, including its earlier forms the shawm and the hautboy, is an instrument with a long and rich history. In this book two distinguished oboist-musicologists trace that history from its beginnings to the 21st century, discussing how and why the...

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Film Studies

Opera on Screen

Citron Marcia J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300191417, Yale University Press, March 2000
306 pp., 15.2x22.9 cm, black&white illus.

What happens to opera when it's presented on the screen? How does an opera change when it becomes a movie, a television presentation, or a video? This book is the first to explore opera and its treatment on the screen from a musicologist's perspectiv...

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