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Raphael's Tapestries The Grotesques of Leo X
ISBN: HB: 9780300181999, Yale University Press, January 2017
200 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 100 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.
Around 1515, Raphael (1483-1520) designed a set of tapestries for Leo X, the first Medici pope. Each was sumptuously woven in gold, silver, and silk, and depicted scenes from classical mythology with inventive grotesques. Now lost, these spectacular,...
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£45,00
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Real Life Rock The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014
ISBN: PB: 9780300223606, Yale University Press, January 2017
600 pp., 22.1x14.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
<p>From the author of "The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs" comes his "Basement Tapes": the complete "Real Life Rock Top 10" columns For nearly thirty years, Greil Marcus has written a remarkable column cal...
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£14,99
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Roman Portraits Stone and Bronze Sculptures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: HB: 9781588395993, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2016
296 pp., 29.2x25.2 cm, 395 colour illus.
Portraits are among the most compelling artistic records of Greek and Roman culture. In this richly illustrated book featuring all new photography, the 60 portrait heads from the Metropolitan Museum's renowned collection are fully described, and plac...
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Richard Diebenkorn The Catalogue Raisonne
ISBN: HB: 9780300184501, Yale University Press, October 2016
2176 pp., 31.1x25.1 cm, vol. 1: 299 colour illus.; vol. 2: 1645 colour illus.; vol. 3: 2344 colour illus.
A four-volume definitive resource on the career and unique works of the postwar American artist Richard Diebenkorn The celebrated American artist Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) was a singular figure in postwar American art. Early in his career, he cr...
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£305,00
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Real Lives of Roman Britain
ISBN: PB: 9780300223491, Yale University Press, September 2016
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 41 black&white illus.
<p>The Britain of the Roman Occupation is, in a way, an age that is dark to us. While the main events from 55 BC to AD 410 are little disputed, and the archaeological remains of villas, forts, walls, and cities explain a great deal, we lack a clear s...
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£12,99
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Rise of Thomas Cromwell Power and Politics in the Reign of Henry VIII, 1485-1534
ISBN: PB: 9780300223514, ISBN: HB: 9780300207422, Yale University Press, September 2016
376 pp., 22.9x14.4 cm, 16 black&white illus.
How much does the Thomas Cromwell of popular novels and television series resemble the real Cromwell? This meticulous study of Cromwell's early political career expands and revises what has been understood concerning the life and talents of Henry VII...
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Revolutionary Horizons Art and Polemics in 1950s Cuba
ISBN: HB: 9780300216813, Yale University Press, August 2016
272 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 68 colour illus., 61 black&white illus.
Modernism in Havana reached its climax during the turbulent years of the 1950s as a generation of artists took up abstraction as a means to advance artistic and political goals in the name of Cuba Libre. During a decade of insurrection and, ultimatel...
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£50,00
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Revolutions Without Borders The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World
ISBN: PB: 9780300219845, ISBN: HB: 9780300208948, Yale University Press, July 2016
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.
Nation-based histories cannot do justice to the rowdy, radical interchange of ideas around the Atlantic world during the tumultuous years from 1776 to 1804. National borders were powerless to restrict the flow of enticing new visions of human rights...
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Robert Irwin A Conditional Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300173833, Yale University Press, July 2016
320 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.
Frequently associated with California Light and Space Art, Robert Irwin (b. 1928) began as an abstract painter in the 1950s. Since that time, he has worked in architectural and outdoor interventions, developing and expanding what he terms a "conditio...
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£50,00
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Russia's Path Toward Enlightenment Faith, Politics, and Reason, 1500-1801
ISBN: HB: 9780300113136, Yale University Press, July 2016
864 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
This book, focusing on the history of religious and political thinking in early modern Russia, demonstrates that Russia's path toward enlightenment began long before Peter the Great's opening to the West. Examining a broad range of writings, G. M. Ha...
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