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Sabiduras and Other Texts Writings by Gego

Huizi Maria Elena, Manrique Josefina, Ramirez Mari Carmen

ISBN: HB: 9780300111637, Yale University Press, September 2005
256 pp., 25x25 cm, 47 colour illus.

The German-born Venezuelan artist Gego (1912-1994) was renowned for her abstract drawings, prints, three-dimensional works, hanging net pieces and wire constructions. In 1999, a folder was found in a storage trunk that had belonged to Gego, with the...

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Architecture

Symbolic Essence and Other Writings on Modern Architecture and American Culture

Jordy William H., Bacon Mardges

ISBN: PB: 9780300094497, Yale University Press, April 2005
344 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 106 black&white illus.

Historian and architectural critic William H. Jordy (1917-1997) significantly shaped the way we understand the character and meaning of modern architecture and American culture. This collection of his thought-provoking essays encompasses Jordy's enti...

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Architecture

Sebastiano Serlio on Architecture, Volume One, Books I-V of "Tutte L'opere D'architecttura Et Prospetiva"

Serlio Sebastiano, Hart Vaughan, Hicks Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300113051, Yale University Press, April 2005
528 pp., 28x21 cm

Sebastiano Serlio introduced the principles of classical design to northern Europe and was the most important architectural writer and theorist of the sixteenth century. However, his writings have been inaccessible to English language readers until n...

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Japanese

Sura Sura A Text for Intermediate Japanese

Chao C. I.

ISBN: PB: 9780887101861, Yale University Press, January 2005
198 pp., 26.7x19.1 cm, black&white illus.

This intermediate level text presents short stories and essays in modern Japanese, alongside exercises and other helpful aids. Sura-Sura is written with the two-fold purpose of increasing proficiency in the language and affording an opportunity to ga...

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History of Art

Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings Volume I

Penny Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9781857099089, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2004
448 pp., 28.6x21.6 cm, 225 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

This highly anticipated catalogue of sixteenth-century paintings from the distinguished collection of the National Gallery in London encompasses artists who were active in Bergamo, Brescia, and Cremona, cities characterized as much by the artistic in...

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Decorative Arts

Silver in London The Parker and Wakelin Partnership 1760-1776

Clifford Helen

ISBN: HB: 9780300103892, Yale University Press, October 2004
320 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 60 colour images, 120 black&white illus.

The firm of Parker and Wakelin was the foremost silversmith in London for much of the eighteenth century, supplying royalty, aristocracy, and gentry with both domestic and ceremonial plate. This fascinating book draws on the firm's records for this p...

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Architecture

Small House in Eighteenth-Century London A Social and Architectural History

Guillery Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300102383, Yale University Press, May 2004
288 pp., 29.1x23.1 cm, 200 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.

London's modest eighteenth-century houses – those inhabited by artisans and labourers in the unseen parts of Georgian London – can tell us much about the culture of that period. This fascinating book examines largely forgotten small houses that survi...

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History of Art

Surrealism and Modernism from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Zafran Eric M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300102031, Yale University Press, September 2003
160 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 30 black&white illus., 85 colour illus.

The Wadsworth Atheneum's remarkable collection of 20th-century art is due to a succession of adventurous directors and curators. This volume showcases the museum's holdings and provides details about their acquisition. The famed Chick Austin, directo...

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Jewish Studies

Secret City The Hidden Jews of Warsaw, 1940-1945

Paulsson Gunnar S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300204773, Yale University Press, January 2003
330 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

When the Nazis forced most of Warsaw's Jews into the city's infamous ghetto during the Second World War, some 28,000 Jews either hid and never entered the Warsaw Ghetto, or escaped from it later in what Gunnar S. Paulsson calls "the greatest prison-b...

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History of Art

Seeing Through Paintings Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies

Kirsh Andrea, Levenson Rustin S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300094084, Yale University Press, May 2002
312 pp., 25.9x19.9 cm, 217 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.

This prize-winning book offers the only comprehensive discussion available on materials, techniques, and condition issues in Western easel paintings from medieval times to the present.

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