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Dallas Museum of Art A Guide to the Collection

Pitman Bonnie

ISBN: PB: 9780300179637, Yale University Press, February 2012
368 pp., 26x19.1 cm, 420 colour images, 5 black&white illus.

Explore the world renowned collection of the Dallas Museum of Art in this lavishly illustrated, informative catalogue. "Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection" showcases the full range and exceptional quality of the rich holdings of one of A...

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Design

Decorative Arts

Duncan Phyfe Master Cabinetmaker in New York

Kenny Peter M., Brown Michael K., Bretter Frances F., Thurlow Matthew A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300155112, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2011
400 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 250 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Duncan Phyfe (1768-1854), known during his lifetime as the "United States Rage", to this day remains America's best-known cabinetmaker. Establishing his reputation as a purveyor of luxury by designing high-quality furniture for New York's moneyed eli...

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Literary Criticism

Dead from the Waist Down Scholars and Scholarship in Literature and the Popular Imagination

Nuttall A. D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300185263, Yale University Press, November 2011
242 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm, black&white illus.

At the end of the sixteenth century, scholars and intellectuals were seen as Faustian magicians, dangerous and sexy. By the nineteenth century, they were perceived as dusty and dried up, "dead from the waist down", as Browning so wickedly put it. In...

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Fashion

Daphne Guinness

Steele Valerie, Guinness Daphne

ISBN: HB: 9780300176636, Yale University Press, September 2011
192 pp., 28x23 cm, 100 colour illus.

"She is one of the – if not the – most stylish women living", says designer and film director Tom Ford, speaking of Daphne Guinness, the subject and co-author of this extraordinary book. From her platinum-and-black striped hair to her towering 10-inc...

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Evolution

Dazzled and Deceived Mimicry and Camouflage

Forbes Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300178968, Yale University Press, September 2011
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 illus.

Nature has perfected the art of deception. Thousands of creatures all over the world – including butterflies, moths, fish, birds, insects and snakes – have honed and practised camouflage over hundreds of millions of years. Imitating other animals or...

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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

Drawings by Rembrandt, His Students, and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection

Sutton Peter C., Robinson William W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300176063, Yale University Press, August 2011
208 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 175 colour illus.

Over the course of several decades, George and Maida Abrams amassed perhaps the finest private collection of Dutch Old Master drawings in the world. This catalogue presents a selection of these superb works, and explores the role of drawing in the cr...

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Design

Design and Truth

Robert Grudin

ISBN: PB: 9780300171310, Yale University Press, June 2011
224 pp., 20.3x14 cm, 5 black&white illus., 8 colour illus.

"If good design tells the truth", writes Robert Grudin in this path-breaking book on aesthetics and authority, "poor design tells a lie, a lie usually related... to the getting or abusing of power". From the ornate cathedrals of Renaissance Europe to...

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History of Art

Devotion by Design Italian Altarpieces Before 1500

Nethersole Scott

ISBN: HB: 9781857095258, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2011
128 pp., 25x15 cm, 50 colour illus.

Museum visitors today usually see pre-16th-century Italian painted altarpieces exhibited alone, as single paintings. Yet this beautiful catalogue shows that these works were once part of decorative, integrated schemes, and the original experience for...

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History of Art

David Smith Invents

Frank Susan Behrends

ISBN: HB: 9780300169652, Yale University Press, April 2011
112 pp., 27.9x19.8 cm, 25 black&white illus., 60 colour illus.

Abstract Expressionist artist David Smith (1906-1965) was one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century, and yet few publications dedicated to his creative output currently exist. "David Smith Invents" is the first book to focus on...

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