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Decorative Arts

Brilliant Effects A Cultural History of Gem Stones and Jewellery

Pointon Marcia R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300142785, Yale University Press, January 2010
368 pp., 29x24.5 cm, 150 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Diamonds are not for ever – nor necessarily are they a girl's best friend. Ranging from precious stones as raw wealth to the symbolic properties of gems whether in Antiquity and the Bible or in Victorian art and literature, this book examines how sma...

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History of Art

British Paintings in Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875

Baetjer Katharine

ISBN: HB: 9780300155099, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2010
512 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 215 black&white illus., 140 colour illus.

This is the first comprehensive publication on English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish paintings and pastels by artists born before 1841 in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ranging in date from the late 16th through the third quarter of...

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History of Art

Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851

Roscoe Ingrid

ISBN: HB: 9780300149654, Yale University Press, September 2009
1616 pp., 23.6x16 cm

A dictionary that provides information on the work of over 3,000 sculptors working in Britain between 1660 and 1851.

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Cultural Studies

Bagel The Surprising History of a Modest Bread

Balinska Maria

ISBN: PB: 9780300158205, Yale University Press, July 2009
242 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Maria Balinska's captivating cultural history of the bagel and its journey through the centuries.

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Architecture

Brick and Clay Building in Britain

Brunskill R. W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300116878, Yale University Press, June 2009
262 pp., 24.6x19.6 cm

"Brick and Clay Building in Britain" has been widely praised both for its clear and well-balanced text and for the quality of the illustrations. This new edition includes a fascinating account of how bricks, brick files and terracotta have been made...

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Design

Buriki Japanese Tin Toys from the Golden Age of the American Automobile: The Yoku Tanaka Collection

Earle Joe

ISBN: PB: 9780300151572, Yale University Press, June 2009
96 pp., 23.2x20.3 cm, 70 colour illus.

Tin toys have been made in Japan for more than 100 years, but during World War II their production – and international sales – ended. Almost as soon as the war was over, ingenious manufacturers began to make model Jeeps out of recycled food cans. Wit...

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Performing Arts

Ballet's Magic Kingdom Selected Writings on Dance in Russia (1911-1925)

Volynsky Akim, Rabinowitz Stanley J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300164497, ISBN: HB: 9780300124620, Yale University Press, May 2009
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburg's liveliest and most prolific ballet critic in the early part of the twentieth century. This book, the first English edition of his provocative and...

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Contemporary Art

Blinky Palermo Abstraction of an Era

Mehring Christine

ISBN: HB: 9780300122381, Yale University Press, December 2008
320 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 62 colour images, 99 black&white illus.

Twenty-one-year-old Peter Heisterkamp began signing his colourful and playful abstract artworks "Palermo" in 1964, when peers noted his resemblance to the American gangster Frank "Blinky" Palermo. This handsome book, a historical and critical study o...

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Photography

Brought to Light Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900

Keller Corey, Tucker Jennifer, Gunning Tom, Groning Maren

ISBN: HB: 9780300142105, Yale University Press, September 2008
208 pp., 25.7x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

"Brought to Light" invites readers to step back to a time when photography, X-rays, and movies were new, when forays into the world beneath the skin or the realm beyond our everyday vision captivated scientists and the public alike. In this book, acc...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Brighton and Hove City Guides

Antram Nicholas, Morrice Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300126617, Yale University Press, July 2008
256 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

This book is the first comprehensive guide to the historic heart of Brighton and Hove, the greatest of England's seaside resorts. A series of walks trace its development from late medieval fishing settlement to the "Queen of the Watering Places", wit...

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