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Johan Zoffany 1733-1810

Webster Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780300162783, Yale University Press, May 2011
416 pp., 29.8x25.8 cm, 175 black&white illus., 180 colour illus.

Universally recognised as a brilliant and gifted eighteenth-century artist, Zoffany was regarded by Horace Walpole as one of the three greatest painters in England, along with his friends Reynolds and Gainsborough. He has remained without a detailed...

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Judaism

Jewish Studies

Judaism A Way of Being

Gelernter David

ISBN: PB: 9780300168150, Yale University Press, April 2011
248 pp., 20.6x14 cm, 4 colour illus.

Written for observant and non-observant Jews and anyone interested in religion, this remarkable book by the distinguished scholar David Gelernter seeks to answer the deceptively simple question: What is Judaism really about? Gelernter views Judaism a...

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Contemporary Art

Judith Neisser Collection

Rondeau James

ISBN: HB: 9780300170245, Yale University Press, April 2011
160 pp., 24.9x24.9 cm, 120 colour illus.

One of Chicago's premier art patrons and an architecture and interior design critic, Judith Neisser has amassed a remarkable collection of international contemporary art. More than 100 works are presented in this captivating, inside look at the Neiss...

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Biography & Memoires

Christianity

John Henry Newman The Challenge to Evangelical Religion

Turner Frank M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300173093, ISBN: HB: 9780300092516, Yale University Press, February 2011
752 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 14 black&white illus.

One of the most controversial religious figures of the nineteenth century, John Henry Newman (1801-1890) began his career as a priest in the Church of England but converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1845. He became a cardinal in 1879. Between 1...

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Contemporary Art

Juan Munoz at the Clark

Gimenez Carmen

ISBN: PB: 9780300169836, Yale University Press, January 2011
48 pp., 23.1x22.4 cm, 32 colour illus.

"The celebrated Spanish sculptor Juan Munoz (1953-2001) died at the height of his powers, when he was considered 'one of the most complex and individual artists working today'". ("Guardian"). "His challenging, enigmatic works almost inexorably draw i...

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History of Art

John La Farge's Second Paradise Voyages in the South Seas, 1890-1891

Hodermarsky Elisabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300141351, Yale University Press, October 2010
240 pp., 27.5x21 cm, 170 colour illus.

In 1890, John La Farge (1835-1910) and his close friend, historian Henry Adams, embarked on a journey to the islands of the South Pacific, where the artist experienced a period of great creative output. This book showcases many of the most important...

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Architecture

James Frazer Stirling: Notes from the Archive

Vidler Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780300167238, Yale University Press, October 2010
300 pp., 27x20.5 cm, 330 colour illus.

The British architect James Frazer Stirling (1924-1992) stimulated impassioned responses among both supporters and detractors, and he continues to be the subject of fierce debate. He earned international renown through such innovative and frequently...

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Fashion

Japan Fashion Now

Steele Valerie

ISBN: PB: 9780300167276, Yale University Press, September 2010
240 pp., 30x23.5 cm, 120 colour illus.

Scholars have long acknowledged the significance of the Japanese 'fashion revolution' of the 1980s, when avant-garde designers Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons introduced a radically new conception of fashion. But w...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

John Brett, Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painter

Payne Christiana

ISBN: HB: 9780300165753, Yale University Press, June 2010
256 pp., 28x22 cm, 150 black&white illus., 120 colour illus.

Drawing on a wealth of unpublished sketchbooks, journals and writings, this essential guide to John Brett (1831-1902) investigates the painter who was seen as the leader of the Pre-Raphaelite landscape school. As well as the familiar early works, inc...

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Poetry

Juvenilia

Chen Ken

ISBN: PB: 9780300160086, Yale University Press, May 2010
96 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Ken Chen is the 2009 winner of the annual Yale Younger Poets competition. These poems of maturation chronicle the poet's relationship with his immigrant family and his unknowing attempt to recapture the unity of youth through comically doomed love af...

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