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On Kawara 10 Tableaux and 20, 834 Pages
ISBN: HB: 9780300137347, Yale University Press, June 2008
192 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 160 colour illus.
Since the mid-1960s, On Kawara (b. 1933) has objectively recorded his existence through everyday numbers, words, and found images. This handsomely designed and illustrated book presents works selected by the artist from throughout his illustrious car...
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£30,00
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Thomas Hope Designer and Patron in Regency London
ISBN: HB: 9780300124163, Yale University Press, March 2008
448 pp., 31x25 cm, 500 illus.
The son of one of the wealthiest merchant bankers in Europe, Thomas Hope (1769-1831) was a major catalyst in the arts of Regency England. At the age of 18, he embarked on a Grand Tour to the Continent that lasted nearly ten years. While travelling, h...
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£60,00
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Alison Watt Phantom
ISBN: HB: 9781857094121, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, March 2008
72 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 38 colour illus.
British artist Alison Watt (b. 1965) creates monumental paintings depicting richly draped fabric. These canvases show closely cropped folds, gathers, tucks, and creases––all sensuously developed from a selective palette of white, grey, burnt sienna,...
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£14,99
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Deuteronomy 1-11
ISBN: PB: 9780300139433, Yale University Press, December 2007
484 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
"Deuteronomy 1-11" is here presented in a groundbreaking new translation, with a comprehensive introduction and thorough commentary by world-renowned Israeli biblical scholar Moshe Weinfeld. The "second law", Deuteronomy portrays Moses as the founder...
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£30,00
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Wisdom of Solomon
ISBN: HB: 9780300139990, Yale University Press, December 2007
360 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
"The Anchor Bible" offers new, book-by-book translations of the Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha, with commentary. This volume on "The Wisdom of Solomon" as been prepared by David Winston, Professor of Hellenistic and Judaic Studies and Director...
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£45,00
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Chinese Calligraphy
ISBN: HB: 9780300121070, Yale University Press, October 2007
520 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 550 colour images, 75 black&white illus.
Chinese calligraphy, with its artistic as well as utilitarian values, has been treasured for its formal beauty for more than three millennia. This lavishly illustrated book brings to English language readers for the first time a full account of calli...
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£65,00
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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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Arts of China After 1620
ISBN: HB: 9780300107357, Yale University Press, March 2007
320 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 200 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.
"The Arts of China after 1620" concludes a major three-volume survey that examines China's huge wealth of art, architecture and artefacts from prehistoric times to the present. Beginning with discussions of 'fine' art and painting and progressing to...
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£50,00
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Pop Art Contemporary Perspectives
ISBN: HB: 9780300122121, Yale University Press, March 2007
160 pp., 26.7x19.1 cm, 93 colour images, 42 black&white illus.
Princeton University Art Museum Monographs is a new series of in-depth explorations of the museum's rich collections. Beautifully designed and produced, these books by leading and emerging scholars offer new insights and perspectives on a single work...
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£16,99
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Inigo Jones and the European Classicist Tradition
ISBN: HB: 9780300117295, Yale University Press, February 2007
240 pp., 28x22 cm, 60 colour, 140 black&white illus.
In this ground-breaking volume, the first book-length study for forty years on one of England's greatest and most influential classical architects, conventional assumptions about Inigo Jones are turned on their head. Traditionally, Jones has been loo...
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£40,00
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