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Vija Celmins Television and Disaster, 1964-1966
ISBN: HB: 9780300166125, Yale University Press, January 2011
64 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, 36 colour illus.
American artist Vija Celmins (b. 1938) is widely admired and respected for her sublime images of night skies and ocean waves. "Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1966" looks closely at Celmins' early work, which is deeply engaged with the Po...
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£15,99
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Voci dal Sud A Journey to Southern Italy with Carlo Levi and His "Christ Stopped at Eboli"
ISBN: PB: 9780300137446, Yale University Press, October 2010
432 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 47 black&white illus., 12 colour illus.
This textbook for intermediate to advanced level Italian courses employs an interdisciplinary approach to explore the culture of the southern Italian region from 1935 to the present. It is structured around Carlo Levi, a 20th-century writer, painter...
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£47,00
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Virgin Warrior The Life and Death of Joan of Arc
ISBN: PB: 9780300168952, Yale University Press, August 2010
320 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.
France's great heroine and England's great scourge: whether a lunatic, a witch, a religious icon, or a skilled soldier and leader, Joan of Arc's contemporaries found her as extraordinary and fascinating as the legends that abound about her today. But...
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£11,99
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Virgin of Chartres Making History through Liturgy and the Arts
ISBN: HB: 9780300110883, Yale University Press, July 2010
624 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 126 black&white illus., 16 colour illus.
Medieval Christians knew the past primarily through what they saw and heard. History was reenacted every year in ritual observances particular to each place and region and rooted in the legends of local saints. This richly illustrated book explores t...
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£57,00
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Visual World of French Theory Figuration
ISBN: HB: 9780300162813, Yale University Press, July 2010
240 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 80 black&white illus., 30 colour illus.
This book focuses on the remarkable series of encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970s – Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Althusser, Pierre Bourdieu, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Felix Guattari, Jean-Francois Lyotar...
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£50,00
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Venice An Architectural Guide
ISBN: PB: 9780300148824, Yale University Press, June 2010
320 pp., 21.6x11.8 cm, 100 black&white illus., 100 colour illus.
Each year, millions of visitors travel to Venice to admire the architectural marvels of this famed city. In this brief yet comprehensive volume, distinguished architect and critic Richard Goy offers a convenient and accessible guide to the city's pia...
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£19,99
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Vampires, Burial, and Death Folklore and Reality
ISBN: PB: 9780300164817, Yale University Press, April 2010
244 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
In this engrossing book, Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers the first scientific explanation for the origins of the vampire legends. From the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized e...
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£18,00
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Varieties of Romantic Experience British, Danish, Dutch, French, and German Drawings from the Collection of Charles Ryskamp
ISBN: HB: 9780300152920, Yale University Press, February 2010
368 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 200 black&white illus.
This lavishly illustrated book considers Romanticism as a truly international phenomenon by bringing together for the first time nearly two hundred British, French, German, Danish, and Dutch drawings from the outstanding collection of Charles Ryskamp...
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£50,00
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Vatican Secret Diplomacy
ISBN: HB: 9780300121346, Yale University Press, June 2008
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 15 black&white illus.
In the corridors of the Vatican on the eve of World War II, American Catholic priest Joseph Patrick Hurley found himself in the midst of secret diplomatic dealings and intense debate. Hurley's deeply felt American patriotism and fixed ideas about con...
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£46,00
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Viewing Renaissance Art
ISBN: PB: 9780300123432, Yale University Press, May 2007
352 pp., 28.6x21.6 cm, 200 colour illus.
This book forms the third of a series of three volumes produced by The Open University and together entitled 'Renaissance Art Reconsidered'. The other two volumes are "Making Renaissance Art" and "Locating Renaissance Art". While the first two volume...
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£25,00
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