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Performing Arts

Feral Josette, Mounsef Donia

ISBN: PB: 9780300118193, Yale University Press, January 2008
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Content: Editors' Preface: The Transparency of the Text. Part I: "Avant and Apres Garde" contains: "Whatever Happened to the Avant-Garde?" by Tom Bishop "Paroles en lambeaux et ecritures d'entreparleurs" by Jean-Pierre Ryngaert "Beyond Drama: Total...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Colossians

Beck Astrid B., Barth Markus, Blanke Helmut

ISBN: PB: 9780300139877, Yale University Press, December 2007
580 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, maps

The Apostle Paul's "Letter to the Colossians" offers a valuable and intimate glimpse into the life of a fledgling Christian community as it struggled to define Christian doctrine and theology. Paul was prompted to write to the Colossian assembly when...

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History of Art

Chinese Calligraphy

Wang Youfen, Ouyang Zhongshi, Fong Wen C., Cao Baolin, Cong Wenjun, Huang Dun, Wang Jingxian, Wang Shizheng, Wang Yuchi, Ye Peigui

ISBN: HB: 9780300121070, Yale University Press, October 2007
520 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 550 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

Chinese calligraphy, with its artistic as well as utilitarian values, has been treasured for its formal beauty for more than three millennia. This lavishly illustrated book brings to English language readers for the first time a full account of calli...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion Buildings of Wales

Lloyd Thomas, Orbach Julian, Scourfield Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300101799, Yale University Press, November 2006
550 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

This sixth volume of the "Buildings of Wales" series covers two counties, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (formerly Cardiganshire) in the South-west of Wales. Like the same authors' Pembrokeshire, the volume covers an architecture still little known,...

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Photography

Collectible Moment Photographs in the Norton Simon Museum

Sander Gloria Williams, Mulligan Therese, Baltz Lewis, Barrow Thomas, Bunnell Peter C., Rice Leland, Sobieszek Robert A., Traub Charles, Wilson William

ISBN: HB: 9780300121001, Yale University Press, September 2006
384 pp., 30x25.8 cm, 600 colour illus.

Before the late 1960s, few museums or collectors acquired photographs or considered the medium as an art form. The moment arrived, however, when photography's profile ascended and the medium began to gain widespread acceptance in the art world as an...

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History of Art

Coming of Age American Art, 1850s to 1950s

Agee William C., Faxon Susan C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300115239, Yale University Press, August 2006
136 pp., 29.9x24.9 cm, 78 colour images, 7 black&white illus.

From the 1850s to the 1950s, American art and culture progressed from provincial status to international prominence, and American art developed from figurative depictions of the particular to abstract interpretations of universal ideals. This beautif...

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History of Art

Clark Brothers Collect Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings from the Collections of Sterling and Stephen Clark

Conforti Michael, Ganz James A., Harris Neil, Vincent Gilbert T., Cohen-McFall Daniel, Lees Sarah, Maurer Susannah, Rand Richard, Simpson Marc

ISBN: HB: 9780300116199, Yale University Press, August 2006
368 pp., 25x28.1 cm, 100 colour images, 150 black&white illus.

Brothers Sterling and Stephen Clark, heirs to the Singer sewing machine fortune, were among the twentieth century's most influential art collectors. This volume examines their magnificent collections, their personal lives and public profiles, and the...

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History of Art

Candidates for Fame The Society of Artists for Great Britain, 1760-1791

Hargraves Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300110043, Yale University Press, February 2006
280 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 80 black&white illus.

In 1760, an innovation transformed the character of artistic life in Great Britain: the first public exhibition of art. The successful London exhibition was repeated in 1761, but a dispute in the wake of the first show split exhibitors into rival gro...

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History of Art

Chinese Sculpture

Howard Angel, Song Li, Hung Wu, Hong Yang

ISBN: HB: 9780300100655, Yale University Press, February 2006
536 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 468 colour images, 51 black&white illus.

This up-to-date and detailed exploration of China's magnificent sculptural heritage is presented in this book that is both accessible to the general reader and revelatory for the scholar. Sculpture is becoming known as one of China's great arts. Neol...

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Architecture

Circa 1700 Architecture in Europe and the Americas

Millon Henry A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300114751, Yale University Press, January 2006
248 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 6 colour images, 195 black&white illus.

The years around 1700 were marked by transformations in European and colonial capital cities. This era saw the creation not only of palatial complexes and urban spaces appropriate to autocratic power, but also of essential infrastructure such as road...

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