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Architecture

David Adjaye Form, Heft, Material

Ryan Zoe, Enwezor Okwui, Allison Peter, Adjaye David, Phillips Andrea, Wilson Mabel O.

ISBN: PB: 9780300207750, Yale University Press, A+D Series, February 2015
296 pp., 25.1x18.1 cm, 181 colour illus., 58 black&white illus.

Born in Tanzania, David Adjaye (b. 1966) is rapidly emerging as a major international figure in architecture and design-and this stunning catalogue serves only to cement his role as one of the most important architects of our time. His expanding port...

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Performing Arts

Like a Bomb Going Off Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia

Ross Janice, Garafola Lynn

ISBN: HB: 9780300207637, Yale University Press, December 2014
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 61 black&white illus.

Everyone has heard of George Balanchine. Few outside the USSR know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine's contemporary, who remained in Lenin's Russia and survived censorship during the darkest days of Stalin. Like Shostakovich, Yakobson suffered for his a...

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History of Art

Make a Joyful Noise Renaissance Art and Music at Florence Cathedral

Radke Gary M., Giacomelli Gabriele, Macey Patrick, Tacconi Marica, Verdon Timothy

ISBN: HB: 9780300209181, Yale University Press, November 2014
104 pp., 30.5x18.7 cm, 80 colour illus.

Florence Cathedral, familiarly called Il Duomo, is an architectural masterpiece and home to celebrated works of art. The interrelationship between the brilliant art and architecture and the Cathedral's musical programme is explored in depth in this b...

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History of Art

Paintings by Peder Balke

Riopelle Christopher, Ljogodt Knut, Lange Marit Ingeborg

ISBN: HB: 9781857095821, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2014
128 pp., 26x24.1 cm, 93 colour illus.

In 1832, the Norwegian painter Peder Balke (1804-1887) traveled to the far north of Norway to the dramatic coastline of the North Cape. The experience was so profound that he built his career painting isolated Arctic Circle seascapes. His pictures we...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Cubism The Leonard A. Lauder Collection

Rabinow Rebecca, Braun Emily F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208078, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2014
448 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.

This groundbreaking new history of Cubism, based on works from the most significant private collection in the world today, is written by many of the field's premier art historians and scholars. The collection, recently donated to The Metropolitan Mus...

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Political Science

Failed Statebuilding Intervention, the State, and the Dynamics of Peace Formation

Richmond Oliver

ISBN: HB: 9780300175318, Yale University Press, October 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Western struggles – and failures – to create functioning states in countries such as Iraq or Afghanistan have inspired questions about whether statebuilding projects are at all viable, or whether they make the lives of their intended beneficiaries be...

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Decorative Arts

Design

Unique by Design Contemporary Jewelry from the Donna Schneier Collection

Ramljak Suzanne

ISBN: PB: 9780300208764, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2014
136 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 101 colour illus.

Studio jewellery dissolves the modern distinction between decorative and fine arts. The 60 pieces in this lively volume, collected by Donna Schneier and donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, were crested primarily from the early 1960s to the pre...

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Photography

Lines

Ranney Edward, Lippard Lucy R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300207231, Yale University Press, August 2014
88 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 44 tritone illus.

Edward Ranney (b. 1942) is one of the most distinguished photographers of the Peruvian landscape. In 1985 Ranney began photographing the Nazca lines, a series of monumental geoglyphs that stretch across an arid plateau in southern Peru. Created by th...

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Architecture

Architecture of Paul Rudolph

Rohan Timothy M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300149395, Yale University Press, July 2014
304 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 40 colour images, 185 black&white illus.

Equally admired and maligned for his remarkable Brutalist buildings, Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) shaped both late modernist architecture and a generation of architects while chairing Yale's department of architecture from 1958 to 1965. Based on extensiv...

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Contemporary Art

Jeff Koons A Retrospective

Rothkopf Scott, Damasio Antonio, Deitch Jeffrey, Graw Isabelle, Hochdorfer Achim, Kuo Michelle, Kushner Rachel, Lee Pamela M., Nagel Alexander, Surowiecki James

ISBN: HB: 9780300195873, Yale University Press, July 2014
288 pp., 33x27.9 cm, 200 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

Examining the breadth and depth of thirty-five years of work by Jeff Koons (b. 1955), one of the most influential and controversial artists of the 20th century, this highly anticipated volume features all of his most famous pieces. In an engaging ove...

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