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John Singer Sargent Volume 7: Figures and Landscapes, 1900-1907 (The Complete Paintings)

Ormond Richard, Kilmurray Elaine

ISBN: HB: 9780300177350, Yale University Press, October 2012
400 pp., 31x24.8 cm, 392 colour images, 73 black&white illus.

From 1900 to 1907, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) travelled considerably, visiting the Alps, Italy, Spain, Norway, and Palestine. In Palestine in 1905, he painted a significant group of oils and watercolours as well as a group of studies of the Bedo...

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Asia

Europe

From the Abode of Islam to the Turkish Vatan The Making of National Homeland in Turkey

Ozkan Behlul

ISBN: PB: 9780300172010, Yale University Press, July 2012
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.

How do people move from tribal and religiously based understandings of society to a concept of the modern nation-state? This book examines the complex and pivotal case of Turkey. Tracing the shifting valences of vatan (Arabic for "birthplace" or "hom...

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Literary Criticism

Exorcism A Play in One Act

O'Neill Eugene, Albee Edward, Bernard Louise

ISBN: HB: 9780300181319, Yale University Press, March 2012
112 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

Shortly after the debut of "Exorcism" in 1920, Eugene O'Neill suddenly canceled production and ordered all extant copies of the drama destroyed. For over ninety years, it was believed that the play was irrevocably lost, until it was recently discover...

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History of Art

Edwardian Sense Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, 1901-1910

O'Neill Morna, Hatt Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300163353, Yale University Press, July 2010
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 90 black&white illus.

Although numerous studies have explored the Edwardian period (1901-1910) as one of political and social change, this innovative book is the first to explore how art, design, and performance not only registered those changes but helped to precipitate...

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Christianity

Madonna of 115th Street Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950

Orsi Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300157529, Yale University Press, July 2010
360 pp., 12.7x19.7 cm, 19 black&white illus.

This is a twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Robert A. Orsi's classic study of popular religion in Italian Harlem. In a new preface, Orsi discusses significant shifts in the field of religious history and calls for new ways of empirically studying d...

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Ancient World

Empty Bottles of Gentilism Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (to 1050)

Oakley Francis

ISBN: HB: 9780300155389, Yale University Press, April 2010
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this book – the first volume in his groundbreaking trilogy on the emergence of western political thought – Francis Oakley explores the roots of secular political thinking by examining the political ideology and institutions of Hellenistic and late...

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History of Art

Reference

Art of Natural History Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400-1850

O'Malley Therese, Meyers Amy R.W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300160246, Yale University Press, March 2010
280 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 164 black&white illus., 63 colour illus.

"Making knowledge visible" is how one sixteenth-century naturalist described the work of the illustrator of botanical treatises. His words reflected the growing role played by illustrators at a time when the study of nature, as a product of the Renai...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

John Singer Sargent Volume 6: Venetian Figures and Landscapes, 1898-1913 (The Complete Paintings)

Ormond Richard, Kilmurray Elaine

ISBN: HB: 9780300141405, Yale University Press, March 2009
272 pp., 31x24.8 cm, 256 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.

Throughout his career – and particularly in the period from 1898 to 1913 – John Singer Sargent painted the spectacular architecture and scenes of everyday life in Venice, as he sat alongside the Grand Canal or in a gondola in the sleepy side canals....

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History of Art

Keywords in American Landscape Design

O'Malley Therese, Kryder-Reid Elizabeth, Helmreich Anne L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300101744, Yale University Press, April 2007
752 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 106 colour images, 881 black&white illus.

This beautifully illustrated historical dictionary of landscape design vocabulary used in North America from the 17th to the mid-19th centuries defines a selection of one hundred terms and concepts used in garden planning and landscape architecture....

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Versions and Inversions Perspectives (vs. Essays) on Avant-garde Art in Latin America

Olea Hector, Ramirez Mari Carmen, Marzio Peter C., Peluffo Linari Gabriel, Giunta Andrea, Camnitzer Luis, Lippard Lucy R., Salzstein Sonia, Smith Terry, Storr Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300116526, Yale University Press, January 2007
272 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 50 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

In the twentieth century, avant-garde artists from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean created extraordinary and highly innovative paintings, sculptures, assemblages, mixed-media works, and installations. This innovative book present...

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