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History of Art

Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)

Chung Anita, Andrews Julia F., Maeda Tamaki, Shen Kuiyi, Yuen Wong Aida

ISBN: PB: 9780300169744, Yale University Press, October 2011
256 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 115 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

One of the preeminent figures in twentieth-century Chinese art, Fu Baoshi (1904-1965) revolutionized the tradition of Chinese ink painting, opening the door to innovations by subsequent generations. As both an art historian and a painter, he directed...

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America

Defiance of the Patriots The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America

Carp Benjamin L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300178128, ISBN: HB: 9780300117059, Yale University Press, September 2011
328 pp., 23.4x15.4 cm, 33 black&white illus.

On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of disguised Bostonians boarded three merchant ships and dumped more than forty-six tons of tea into Boston Harbour. The Boston Tea Party, as it later came to be known, was an audacious and revolutionary a...

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History of Art

Decorative Arts

Capturing the Essence Techniques for Bird Artists

Cooper William T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300176261, Yale University Press, June 2011
128 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 139 colour illus.

In this stunningly beautiful book, bird artist William T. Cooper explores and demonstrates all aspects of drawing and painting birds. Renowned for his gorgeous and accurate wildlife renderings, Cooper here explains in detail how to create a true impr...

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Europe

Strawberry Hill Press and its Printing House

Clarke Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300170405, Yale University Press, May 2011
152 pp., 25x15 cm, 30 colour illus.

Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press, founded in 1757, is the most celebrated of the early English private presses, unique for the importance of the books, pamphlets and ephemera it produced. This illustrated study of the Press draws on a remarkabl...

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Landscape Architecture

Vauxhall Gardens A History

Coke David E., Borg Alan

ISBN: HB: 9780300173826, Yale University Press, May 2011
400 pp., 25x15 cm, 200 black&white illus., 80 colour illus.

From their early beginnings in the Restoration until the final closure in Queen Victoria's reign, Vauxhall Gardens developed from a rural tavern and place of assignation into a dream-world filled with visual arts and music, and finally into a commerc...

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Music

Windfall of Musicians Hitler's Emigres and Exiles in Southern California

Crawford Dorothy Lamb

ISBN: PB: 9780300171235, Yale University Press, May 2011
336 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 27 black&white illus.

This book is the first to examine the brilliant gathering of composers, conductors, and other musicians who fled Nazi Germany and arrived in the Los Angeles area. Musicologist Dorothy Lamb Crawford looks closely at the lives, creative work, and influ...

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History of Art

Imperial Landscapes Britain's Global Visual Culture, 1745-1820

Crowley John E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300170504, Yale University Press, May 2011
320 pp., 29x25 cm, 100 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.

In response to conquests in mid-18th-century wars, Britons developed a keen interest in how their colonies actually looked. Artistic representations of these faraway places, claiming topographic accuracy from being "drawn on the spot", became increas...

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Architecture

Architecture in Uniform Designing and Building for the Second World War

Cohen Jean-Louis

ISBN: HB: 9782754105309, Yale University Press, April 2011
448 pp., 24.6x17.8 cm, 300 illus.

This fascinating book offers a new perspective on the architectural history of the Second World War, which in previous accounts has most often been viewed as a hiatus between peaceful periods of production. Jean-Louis Cohen contends instead that duri...

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Psychology

Boyhoods Rethinking Masculinities

Corbett Ken

ISBN: PB: 9780300171211, Yale University Press, April 2011
288 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm

Familiar and expected gender patterns help us to understand boys but often constrict our understanding of any given boy. Writing in a wonderfully robust and engaging voice, Ken Corbett argues for a new psychology of masculinity, one that is not stric...

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Europe

Culture Studies

Social Life of Coffee The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse

Cowan Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780300171228, ISBN: HB: 9780300106664, Yale University Press, March 2011
378 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 43 black&white illus.

What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan...

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