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History of Art

Pelican History of Art

Arts of China After 1620

Watson William, Ho Chuimei

ISBN: HB: 9780300107357, Yale University Press, March 2007
320 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 200 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.

"The Arts of China after 1620" concludes a major three-volume survey that examines China's huge wealth of art, architecture and artefacts from prehistoric times to the present. Beginning with discussions of 'fine' art and painting and progressing to...

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Photography

Marshes The Disappearing Edens

Burt William

ISBN: HB: 9780300122299, Yale University Press, March 2007
160 pp., 23.5x19.1 cm, 92 colour illus.

Drawn since boyhood to the beauty and allure of marshes, naturalist William Burt has prowled them by day and night, in every season, from one edge of North America to the other. For thirty years, he has hauled his large-format camera with him, seekin...

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History of Art

Unknown Monet Pastels and Drawings

Ganz James A., Kendall Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300118629, Yale University Press, March 2007
320 pp., 30.5x23 cm, 225 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Claude Monet (1840-1926) is one of the best-known and most beloved painters in the history of art, with myriad publications and exhibitions devoted to his oeuvre. And yet, there remains a previously undiscovered aspect of his career: his surprisingly...

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Photography

Dateline Israel New Photography and Video Art

Tumarkin Goodman Susan, Grundberg Andy, Perez Nissan N.

ISBN: HB: 9780300111569, Yale University Press, March 2007
144 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 111 colour illus.

What can art tell us about Israel today? Is there an artistic consensus among those living inside and outside the country? How does an artist come to terms with the disturbing realities in Israel – violence, political instability, insecurity, and soc...

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Contemporary Art

Pop Art Contemporary Perspectives

Wilmerding John, Foster Hal, Burton Johanna, Hatch Kevin, Hudson Suzanne, Kitnik Alex, Robinson Julia, Tuite Diana

ISBN: HB: 9780300122121, Yale University Press, March 2007
160 pp., 26.7x19.1 cm, 93 colour images, 42 black&white illus.

Princeton University Art Museum Monographs is a new series of in-depth explorations of the museum's rich collections. Beautifully designed and produced, these books by leading and emerging scholars offer new insights and perspectives on a single work...

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History of Art

Locating Renaissance Art

Richardson Carol M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300121889, Yale University Press, March 2007
352 pp., 28.5x21.5 cm, 200 colour illus.

Renaissance art history is traditionally identified with Italian centres of production, and Florence in particular. Instead, this book explores the dynamic interchange between European artistic centres and artists and the trade in works of art. It al...

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Fashion

Ralph Rucci The Art of Weightlessness

Steele Valerie, Mears Patricia, Sauro Clare

ISBN: HB: 9780300122787, Yale University Press, February 2007
128 pp., 32.5x22.8 cm, 80 colour illus.

Working quietly and without much public attention for more than 20 years, American fashion designer Ralph Rucci suddenly became a headline topic in 2002, when he was invited to show his collection at the haute couture in Paris – the first American to...

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Philosophy

Kant and Idealism

Rockmore Tom

ISBN: HB: 9780300120080, Yale University Press, February 2007
294 pp., 21x14 cm

Distinguished scholar and philosopher Tom Rockmore examines one of the great lacunae of contemporary philosophical discussion – idealism. Addressing the widespread confusion about the meaning and use of the term, he surveys and classifies some of its...

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Architecture

Inigo Jones and the European Classicist Tradition

Worsley Giles

ISBN: HB: 9780300117295, Yale University Press, February 2007
240 pp., 28x22 cm, 60 colour, 140 black&white illus.

In this ground-breaking volume, the first book-length study for forty years on one of England's greatest and most influential classical architects, conventional assumptions about Inigo Jones are turned on their head. Traditionally, Jones has been loo...

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Contemporary Art

Mar Magdalena Campos-Pons Everything is Separated by Water

Freiman Lisa D., Enwezor Okwui

ISBN: HB: 9780300123456, Yale University Press, February 2007
160 pp., 29.8x24 cm, 80 colour illus.

With a diverse oeuvre ranging from painting to mixed-media installations to performance, video, and photography, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons is one of the most significant artists to emerge from post-Revolutionary Cuba. Her evocative works probe ques...

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