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Fiction

Antony and Cleopatra

Shakespeare William

ISBN: PB: 9780300124736, Yale University Press, November 2007
240 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

"The Annotated Shakespeare" series enables today's readers to understand and enjoy the plays of the world's greatest dramatist. Comprehensive on-page annotations assist with vocabulary, pronunciation, prosody, and alternative readings of phrases and...

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Design

Drawn to Enchant Original Children's Book Art in the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection

Young Timothy

ISBN: HB: 9780300126730, Yale University Press, October 2007
196 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 250 colour illus.

Betsy Beinecke Shirley, one of the great collectors of American children's literature, gathered a peerless collection of books, original illustrations, manuscripts, and ephemera. This gorgeously illustrated book presents over 200 selected original ar...

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History of Art

Art for Art's Sake Aestheticism in Victorian Painting

Prettejohn Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300135497, Yale University Press, October 2007
320 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 40 colour, 85 black&white illus.

This book is the first to explore the distinctive role of painting in the debates surrounding the notion of 'art for art's sake' and Aestheticism in Victorian England. In the London circles of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Frederic Leighton, this artist...

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Polonica

Sketches from a Secret War A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine

Snyder Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780300125993, Yale University Press, October 2007
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus., 6 maps

The forgotten protagonist of this true account aspired to be a cubist painter in his native Kyiv. In a Europe remade by the First World War, his talents led him to different roles – intelligence operative, powerful statesman, underground activist, li...

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Cartoon Art

Art of William Steig

Nahson Claudia J., Cottingham Robert, Sorel Edward, Steig Jeanne, Steig Maggie, Sendak Maurice

ISBN: HB: 9780300124781, Yale University Press, October 2007
208 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 165 black&white illus., 131 colour illus.

Known for his brilliant cartoons and award-winning children's books, William Steig (1907-2003) leaves a legacy that spans much of the 20th century. This lavishly illustrated book features over 250 of Steig's drawings, many of them previously unpublis...

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History of Art

Inspiring Impressionism The Impressionists and the Art of the Past

Bray Xavier, Clarke Michael, Collins John, Dumas Ann, House John, Suzman Jowell Frances, Rand Richard, Stevenson Lesley

ISBN: HB: 9780300131321, Yale University Press, October 2007
304 pp., 30.5x25.1 cm, 175 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Inspiring Impressionism explores links between Impressionists and the major European art-historical movements that came before them, demonstrating how often beneath the Impressionists' commitment to capturing contemporary life there lay a deep explor...

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Decorative Arts

Henry VIII and the Art of Majesty Tapestries at the Tudor Court

Campbell Thomas P.

ISBN: HB: 9780300122343, Yale University Press, October 2007
440 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 206 colour images, 114 black&white illus.

Luxurious, beautiful, and portable, tapestry was the pre-eminent art form of the Tudor court. Henry VIII amassed an unrivaled collection over the course of his reign, and the author weaves the history of this magnificent collection into the life of i...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Political Economy of Socialist Realism

Dobrenko Evgeny

ISBN: HB: 9780300122800, Yale University Press, October 2007
410 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

For decades Stalinist literature, film, and art was almost exclusively deemed political propaganda imposed from on high, devoid of any aesthetic significance. In this book, Evgeny Dobrenko suggests an entirely new view: socialism did not produce Soci...

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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

Holy Place Architecture, Ideology, and History in Russia

Akinsha Konstantin, Kozlov Grigorij, Hochfield Sylvia

ISBN: HB: 9780300110272, Yale University Press, October 2007
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 60 colour illus.

This book surveys two centuries of Russian history through a succession of ambitious architectural projects designed for a single construction site in central Moscow. Czars, Bolshevik rulers, and contemporary Russian leaders alike have dreamed of glo...

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