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Monet | Kelly

Bois Yve-Alain, Lees Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780300207873, Yale University Press, April 2015
96 pp., 24.1x21 cm, 45 colour illus.

Early in his career, Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923) spent six formative years (1948-1954) in France, where he discovered the late work of the Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926). Visits to the remote island of Belle-Ile off the coast of Brittan...

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Philosophy

Moral Culture of the Scottish Enlightenment 1690-1805

Ahnert Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780300153804, Yale University Press, March 2015
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In the Enlightenments it was often argued that moral conduct, rather than adherence to theological doctrine, was the true measure of religious belief. Thomas Ahnert argues that this "enlightened" emphasis on conduct in religion relied less on argumen...

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History of Art

Machine Age Modernism Prints from the Daniel Cowin Collection

Clarke Jay A., Black Jonathan, Kosinski Megan

ISBN: PB: 9780300211665, Yale University Press, March 2015
80 pp., 23.5x22.9 cm, 50 colour illus.

This group of 40 prints from the exceptional Daniel Cowin Collection captures the tumultuous aesthetic and political climate of the years surrounding World Wars I and II. An essay by Jonathan Black addresses the impact of World War I on two notable B...

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Architecture

Modern Architecture Symposia, 1962-1966 A Critical Edition

Bletter Rosemarie Haag, Ockman Joan, Eklund Nancy

ISBN: HB: 9780300209952, Yale University Press, February 2015
340 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 123 black&white illus.

In a series of three symposia at Columbia University in the 1960s, leading scholars and critics gathered to re-examine the architecture of the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s and assess its scope and significance anew. Chaired by Henry-Russell Hitchcock with...

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Ecology

Mountains and Plains The Ecology of Wyoming Landscapes

Knight Dennis H., Jones George P., Reiners William A., Romme William H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300185928, Yale University Press, December 2014
416 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 168 colour images, 77 black&white illus.

Many changes – some discouraging, others hopeful – have occurred in the Rocky Mountain region since the first edition of this widely acclaimed book was published. Wildlife habitat has become more fragmented, once-abundant sage grouse are now scarce,...

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History of Art

Marble Index Roubiliac and Sculptural Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Baker Malcolm

ISBN: HB: 9780300204346, Yale University Press, December 2014
400 pp., 28x23 cm, 100 colour images, 300 black&white illus.

The first wide-ranging study of sculptural portraiture in eighteenth-century Britain, this book examines the significance of the bust and the statue as modes of representation within that culture. Adding a missing dimension to accounts of eighteenth-...

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History of Art

Make a Joyful Noise Renaissance Art and Music at Florence Cathedral

Radke Gary M., Giacomelli Gabriele, Macey Patrick, Tacconi Marica, Verdon Timothy

ISBN: HB: 9780300209181, Yale University Press, November 2014
104 pp., 30.5x18.7 cm, 80 colour illus.

Florence Cathedral, familiarly called Il Duomo, is an architectural masterpiece and home to celebrated works of art. The interrelationship between the brilliant art and architecture and the Cathedral's musical programme is explored in depth in this b...

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Contemporary Art

Make it New Abstract Painting from the National Gallery of Art, 1950-1975

Cooper Harry, Breslin David, Jolly Matt

ISBN: PB: 9780300207903, Yale University Press, October 2014
140 pp., 33x22.2 cm, 60 colour illus.

Featuring thirty-five outstanding abstract paintings made between 1950 and 1975 from the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, this fascinating book casts a new glance at a renowned period in the history of art, including works by Ly...

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History of Art

Matisse's Sculpture The Pinup and the Primitive

McBreen Ellen

ISBN: HB: 9780300171037, Yale University Press, September 2014
288 pp., 28x23 cm, 50 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Long perceived as a side pursuit to his celebrated painting career, Henri Matisse's sculpture receives an overdue critical examination in this book. Beginning in 1906, soon after the artist acquired his first African sculpture, Matisse found inspirat...

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Europe

Men from the Ministry How Britain Saved Its Heritage

Thurley Simon

ISBN: PB: 9780300205244, ISBN: HB: 9780300195729, Yale University Press, September 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 50 black&white illus.

Between 1900 and 1950 the British state amassed a huge collection of over 800 historic buildings, monuments and historic sites and opened them to the public. Nothing like it had ever been seen before. Of course, collections of paintings, sculptures,...

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