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Decorative Arts

Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection

Clark Garth, Strauss Cindi, Adamson Glenn, Vecchio Mark, Shales Ezra, Veiteberg Jorunn, Burrows Keelin, Elliot Rebecca, Houston Laura, Zooey Martin Elliott

ISBN: HB: 9780300169973, Yale University Press, April 2012
576 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 702 colour illus.

As gallerists and collectors, Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio have helped shape the field of ceramics by expanding notions of the medium's possibilities. This comprehensive catalogue features, for the first time in its entirety, their esteemed colle...

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History of Art

Search for Immortality Tomb Treasures of Han China

Lin James C. S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300184341, Yale University Press, March 2012
384 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 350 colour images, 120 black&white illus.

During the last two centuries BC, the Western Han dynasty of China forged the first stable empire covering all of China and presided over a golden age that shaped much of subsequent Chinese art and culture. From family values to the structure of the...

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History of Art

Shapeshifting Transformations in Native American Art

Kramer Russell Karen, Berlo Janet Catherine, Bernstein Bruce, Horse Capture Joseph D., Horton Jessica L., Chaat Smith, Ash-Millby Kathleen E., English Karah, Jonaitis Aldona

ISBN: HB: 9780300177329, Yale University Press, February 2012
248 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 144 colour images, 16 black&white illus.

Public perception of Native American art and culture has often been derived from misunderstandings and misinterpretations, and from images promulgated by popular culture. Typically, Native Americans are grouped as a whole and their art and culture co...

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Fashion

Performing Arts

Staging Fashion, 1880-1920 Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burke

Majer Michele

ISBN: PB: 9780300181135, Yale University Press, February 2012
176 pp., 22.2x17.8 cm, 220 colour illus.

Although Jane Hading (1859-1940), Lily Elsie (1886-1962), and Billie Burke (1884-1970) gained fame as stage actresses, their popular appeal also rested on their ability to cultivate a glamorous appearance. Their careers illustrate the early transform...

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Photography

Sea Stories

Adams Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300180046, Yale University Press, February 2012
124 pp., 24.1x21 cm, 106 tritone illus.

One of the preeminent chroniclers of the American West, over the past decade Robert Adams has turned his attention to the woods and shores near his home on the Oregon coast. "Sea Stories" is a sequence of three narratives that follow Adams and his wi...

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Photography

Some Aesthetic Decisions The Photographs of Judy Fiskin

Heckert Virginia

ISBN: HB: 9781606060810, Getty Publications, December 2011
376 pp., 27x21.3 cm, 294 black&white illus.

This is a gloriously illustrated volume that represents the entire photographic oeuvre of American artist Judy Fiskin. This first major monograph of Los Angeles-based artist Judy Fiskin includes reproductions of nearly 300 images taken from 1973 to 1...

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Nature

Photography

Science on Ice Four Polar Expeditions

Linder Chris

ISBN: HB: 9780226482477, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
288 pp., 28x20 cm, 157 colour illus.

"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised", wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard of his time with the 1910 Scott expedition to the South Pole. And that's how most of us still imagine polar exp...

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Contemporary Art

Sol Lewitt Structures, 1965-2005

Freedman Susan K., Baume Nicholas, Haidu Rachel, Lovatt Anna, Madura Joe, Swenson Kirsten

ISBN: HB: 9780300178616, Yale University Press, November 2011
226 pp., 30.4x25.7 cm, 150 colour illus.

Sol LeWitt (1928-2007), renowned for his role in establishing Conceptualism and Minimalism as dominant art movements in the postwar era, is perhaps best known for his masterful and brilliantly coloured wall drawings. Throughout his career, however, L...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Salvador Dali The Reality of Dreams

Schiebler Ralf

ISBN: PB: 9783791346120, Prestel Publishing, October 2011
128 pp., 27x18.5 cm, 62 colour illus., 38 black&white illus.

Now available again, this fascinating look at Dali explores the forces that shaped the life and works of one of the modern art world's most inscrutable and misunderstood figures. Concise yet comprehensive, this elegant volume follows Dali's artistic...

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Cartoon Art

Painting and Drawing Manuals

Stan Lee's How to Write Comics From the Legendary Co-Creator of Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, Fantastic Four, X-Men, and Iron Man

Lee Stan

ISBN: PB: 9780823000845, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, October 2011
224 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, colour illus., black&white illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! From comics icon Stan Lee, creator of the Mighty Marvel Universe and characters such as Spider-Man, Incredible Hulk and the X-Men, comes the ultimate how-to book for aspiring comic book writers. In these pages, a...

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