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History of Art

Surrealism, Art and Modern Science Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Epistemology

Parkinson Gavin

ISBN: HB: 9780300098877, Yale University Press, May 2008
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 60 black&white illus., 20 colour illus.

During the same period that Surrealism originated and flourished between the wars, great advances were being made in the field of physics. This book offers the first full history, analysis and interpretation of Surrealism's engagement with the Theory...

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Architecture

Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840

Colvin Howard

ISBN: HB: 9780300125085, Yale University Press, May 2008
1264 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The authoritative and now classic work of reference on the history of British architecture contains biographical information on some 2,000 architects who practised in England, Scotland and Wales from the time of Inigo Jones (1573-1652) to that of Wil...

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History of Art

Railway Art in the Age of Steam

Kennedy Ian, Treuherz Julian, Beaumont Matthew, Freeman Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300138788, Yale University Press, April 2008
288 pp., 25.4x27.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

Steam locomotives gripped the imagination when they first appeared in nineteenth-century Europe and America. Aboard these great machines, passengers travelled at faster speeds than ever before while watching the scenery transform itself and take on n...

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Chinese

Lady in the Painting Simplified Characters

Ross Claudia, Ross Jocelyn, Fang-Yu Wang Fred

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780300125160, Yale University Press, April 2008
250 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 25 black&white illus.

Written in the style of a Chinese folktale, this book presents the story of "The Lady in the Painting" with vocabulary and structures familiar to students who have completed a basic course in Chinese. It uses an inventory of 300 Chinese characters, s...

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Chinese

Lady in the Painting A Basic Chinese Reader

Ross Claudia, Ross Jocelyn, Fang-Yu Wang Fred

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780300115499, Yale University Press, April 2008
250 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 25 black&white illus.

This book is an expanded edition of the story "The Lady in the Painting", written in the style of a Chinese folktale by Fred Fang-Yu Wang. The story is told with vocabulary and structures familiar to students who have completed a basic course in Chin...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Carroll Dunham Prints

Kemmerer Alison N., DeRose Elizabeth C., Dunham Carroll

ISBN: HB: 9780300121650, Yale University Press, April 2008
320 pp., 28.6x22.9 cm, 300 colour illus.

Widely known for his vibrant paintings that employ a variety of styles – including abstraction, figuration, pop, and cartoon – Carroll Dunham (b. 1949) is also one of the most prolific printmakers of his generation. An integral part of the artistic p...

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Polonica

Soviet-Polish Peace of 1921 and the Creation of Interwar Europe

Borzecki Jerzy

ISBN: HB: 9780300121216, Yale University Press, April 2008
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus., 6 maps

The Soviet-Polish peace treaty of 1921, also known as the "Riga peace", ended the war of 1919-1920 and may be considered the most important Eastern European treaty of the interwar period. This deeply researched book offers the first post-Soviet accou...

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Photography

Meaning of Photography

Kelsey Robin, Stimson Blake, Batchen Geoffrey, Brunet Francois, Harper Sharon, LoCurto Lilla, Outcault William, Tan Fiona

ISBN: PB: 9780300121506, Yale University Press, April 2008
208 pp., 24.1x17.8 cm, 75 black&white illus.

How can we write the histories of photography? How should art history and visual studies integrate the special technical and aesthetic challenges posed by the medium and respond to the intense interest it has provoked in the art world in recent years...

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History of Art

One Hundred Details from the National Gallery

Clark Kenneth

ISBN: HB: 9781857094268, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, April 2008
160 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

Originally published in 1938 when Kenneth Clark was director of the National Gallery, London, this book presents Clark's favorite details from paintings in the museum's collection. Newly updated and handsomely illustrated, this landmark book juxtapos...

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Contemporary Art

Lightning Field

Baker Kenneth, Cooke Lynne

ISBN: HB: 9780300138948, Yale University Press, April 2008
192 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm

Walter De Maria's Lightning Field (1977) is one of the twentieth century's most significant works of art. Situated in a remote area of desert in southwestern New Mexico, it comprises 400 polished, stainless-steel poles (spaced 220 feet apart) install...

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