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Stirling and Central Scotland Buildings of Scotland
ISBN: HB: 9780300095944, Yale University Press, January 2002
736 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 128 illus.
"The Buildings of Scotland", founded by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983) and Colin McWilliam (1928-1989), will, when complete, guide the reader to all buildings of significance in Scotland. In each volume, a gazetteer describes and interprets buildin...
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£60,00
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Small Bronzes in the Renaissance
ISBN: HB: 9780300090420, Yale University Press, August 2001
282 pp., 28x22.8 cm, 305 illus.
This far-ranging book presents the most recent research on small-scale bronze production of the Renaissance. The contributors to the volume – an international group of curators, art historians, and conservators – analyse the production and collecting...
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£40,00
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Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family Volume 5: Autobiography of Charles Willson Peale
ISBN: HB: 9780300075472, Yale University Press, March 2000
552 pp., 24.5x16.5 cm, 83 black&white illus., 13 colour illus.
This autobiography, written by Peale when he was in his eighties, spans American history from the 1740s to the 1820s, an era in which Peale was a primary actor in many of the young nation's significant cultural and political events. Peale begins by d...
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£88,00
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Sculptures of the Parthenon Aesthetics and Interpretation
ISBN: HB: 9780300073911, Yale University Press, January 2000
212 pp., 21x15 cm, 51 black&white illus., 6 colour illus.
This generously illustrated book provides a complete overview of current knowledge about the sculptures of the Parthenon and suggests new interpretations of the ancient temple's sculptural creations. Margaretha Lagerlof steps back from viewing the fr...
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£50,00
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Secular Furniture of E. W. Godwin With Catalogue Raisonnae
ISBN: HB: 9780300081596, Yale University Press, December 1999
298 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 240 colour plates, 120 black&white illus.
A study of the furniture designs of E. W. Godwin. Taking the form of a catalogue raisonne, it documents and reproduces all known examples of his secular furniture and related furniture designs. It traces the development of his style, examines its sou...
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£65,00
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Sin and Censorship The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry
ISBN: HB: 9780300063738, Yale University Press, March 1996
424 pp., 15.6x23.4 cm
During World War I, the Catholic church blocked the distribution of government-sponsored V. D. prevention films, initiating an era of attempts by the church to censor the movie industry. This book is an entertaining and engrossing account of those ef...
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£45,00
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Still Alive An Autobiographical Essay
ISBN: PB: 9780300105612, Yale University Press, May 1994
308 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
In the first English translation of Still Alive, the renowned Polish essayist and theater critic Jan Kott recounts his perilous odyssey through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-twentieth-century, illuminating not only the fat...
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£24,00
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Sculpture in Britain, 1530-1830
ISBN: PB: 9780300053180, ISBN: HB: 9780300053173, Yale University Press, May 1992
522 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 318 colour and black&white illus.
This comprehensive survey of sculpture in Britain from the Reformation to the accession of Queen Victoria aims to shed light on English taste in the period. It examines the family tomb and the portrait bust, the forms of sculpture most favoured in Br...
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Spirit in Ashes Hegel, Heidegger, and Man-Made Mass Death
ISBN: PB: 9780300046229, Yale University Press, September 1990
263 pp., 21x14 cm
Contemporary phenomena of mass death – such as Hiroshima and Auschwitz – have brought with them the threat of annihilation of human life. In this provocative and disturbing book, Edith Wyschogrod shows that the various manifestations of man-made mass...
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£17,00
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Symbol, Myth, and Culture Essays and Lectures of Ernst Cassirer, 1935-1945
ISBN: PB: 9780300026665, Yale University Press, March 1981
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
The papers in this volume of Ernst Cassirer's unpublished works give insight into the major issues that engaged Cassirer's interest between 1935 and 1945. The book begins with his inaugural address at the University of Goteborg, Sweden, in the first...
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£16,90
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