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History of Art

J. Lockwood Kipling Bombay, the Punjab, South Kensington

Bryant Julius, Weber Susan, Swallow Deborah, Bryant Barbara, Marsden Christopher, Arburthnott Catherine, Khan Nadhra Shahbaz, Kemp Sandra, Hoffenberg Peter H., James Brother

ISBN: HB: 9780300221596, Yale University Press, January 2017
602 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 700 colour illus., 37 black&white illus.

John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911) started his career as an architectural sculptor at the South Kensington Museum (today the Victoria and Albert Museum). Much of his life, however, was spent in British India, where his son Rudyard was born. He taught...

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Contemporary Art

Matthew Barney Otto Trilogy

Barney Matthew, Spector Nancy, Nelson Maggie

ISBN: HB: 9780300223699, Yale University Press, November 2016
200 pp., 20.3x28 cm, 250 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

A generously illustrated look at the intricate narrative threads of three of the artist's earliest works, and their continued resonance today Celebrated for works blending performance, video, and sculpture, Matthew Barney has created complex narrativ...

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Photography

Detroit After Dark Photographs from the Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts

Barr Nancy W., Blair Sara, Tysh Chris

ISBN: HB: 9780300218428, Yale University Press, November 2016
112 pp., 28.6x24.8 cm, 80 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

An exploration of the tradition of night photography in the city of Detroit by well-known artists from the 1950s until today This book is the first to explore photographic representations of Detroit during the hours from dusk until dawn, featuring wo...

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History of Art

Neapolitan Creche at the Art Institute of Chicago

Bellenger Sylvain, Romano Carmine, Rosenberg Jesse, Muti Riccardo

ISBN: HB: 9780300222357, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2016
176 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 250 colour illus.

The 18th-century Neapolitan creche at the Art Institute of Chicago, which contains over 200 figures arranged in a panorama of street life, represents the pinnacle of a rich artistic heritage. This luxurious catalogue is the first to study the creche...

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Political Science

Bigot Why Prejudice Persists

Bronner Stephen Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780300223842, Yale University Press, November 2016
248 pp., 20.2x12.8 cm

<p>Stephen Eric Bronner is a prolific author, activist, and one of America's leading political thinkers. His new book presents bigotry as a systematic, all-encompassing mindset that has a special affinity for right-wing movements. In what will su...

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Medieval

Feast for the Senses Art and Experience in Medieval Europe

Bagnoli Martina, Normore Christina, Newman Barbara, Casagrande Carla, Dillon Emma, Brilliant Virginia

ISBN: HB: 9780300222951, Yale University Press, October 2016
280 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 241 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.

The late medieval world was marked by a culture of refinement and sophistication. The period's media of choice – paintings, manuscripts, prints, tapestries, embroideries, ivory sculpture, metalwork, and enamels – speak volumes about the pleasures of...

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History of Art

Jerusalem, 1000-1400 Every People Under Heaven

Boehm Barbara Drake, Holcomb Melanie

ISBN: HB: 9781588395986, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2016
352 pp., 30.8x24.3 cm, 354 colour illus.

A comprehensive and timely exploration of the key role Jerusalem played in shaping the art and culture of the Middle Ages Medieval Jerusalem was a vibrant international center and home to multiple cultures, faiths, and languages. Harmonious and disso...

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Europe

Real Lives of Roman Britain

Bedoyere Guy de la

ISBN: PB: 9780300223491, Yale University Press, September 2016
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 41 black&white illus.

<p>The Britain of the Roman Occupation is, in a way, an age that is dark to us. While the main events from 55 BC to AD 410 are little disputed, and the archaeological remains of villas, forts, walls, and cities explain a great deal, we lack a clear s...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

History of Art

Baule Monkeys

Bruno Claessens, Jean-Louis Danis, Vogel Susan M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300222449, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, August 2016
192 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 113 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.

The Baule people of the Ivory Coast are renowned for their refined sculptural work of masks and figures. This book is the first to focus exclusively on an antithetic aspect of Baule culture-rough zoomorphic sculptures representing monkeys. These awe-...

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American Impressionist Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals

Barron Bailly Austen, Burnside Kathleen, Weeks Hal, Coffey John W., De Steiguer Alexandra

ISBN: HB: 9780300217315, Yale University Press, June 2016
124 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 100 colour illus.

Childe Hassam (1859-1935) was the foremost American impressionist of his generation. Prolific in oil paintings and watercolors, he found his native New England to be a touchstone for his art. Hassam had a fascination with Appledore, the largest islan...

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