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History of Art

Dada's Women

Hemus Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780300141481, Yale University Press, March 2009
256 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 20 colour images, 60 black&white illus.

The European Dada movement of the early twentieth century has long been regarded as a male preserve, one in which women have been relegated to footnotes or mentioned only as the wives, girlfriends, or sisters of Dada men. This fascinating book challe...

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Architecture

Defining Urban Design CIAM Architects and the Formation of a Discipline, 1937-69

Mumford Eric

ISBN: HB: 9780300138887, Yale University Press, March 2009
272 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 14 colour images, 86 black&white illus.

In this meticulously researched book, Eric Mumford traces how members of the International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM), such as Walter Gropius, Josep Lluis Sert, and their American associates, developed the discipline of urban design from...

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Architecture

Modernist Museum in Perspective The East Building, National Gallery of Art

Alofsin Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780300121599, Yale University Press, March 2009
248 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 58 colour images, 207 black&white illus.

This fascinating book is the first critical examination of the East Building, I. M. Pei's celebrated addition to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Distinguished contributors consider this iconic building from various historical vantage...

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History of Art

If the Paintings Could Talk

Wilson Michael, Marr Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9781857094251, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2009
176 pp., 21x14 cm, 168 colour illus.

"If the Paintings Could Talk" reveals the hidden histories of paintings in the National Gallery, London. With a treasury of fascinating facts, discoveries, and tales, this book describes the flight a work took down a mountainside and the portrait tha...

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History of Art

John Talman An Early Eighteenth-Century Connoisseur

Sicca Cinzia Maria, Baker Christopher, Borgioli Cristina, Connor Bulman Louisa M., Capitanio Antonella, Collareta Marco, Davidson Peter, Freddolini Francisco, Giometti Cristiano, Harris John

ISBN: HB: 9780300123357, Yale University Press, February 2009
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 108 colour illus.

This handsome book is the only full-length study of John Talman (1677-1726), the first director of the Society of Antiquaries and one of the most influential collectors of drawings in early 18th-century Britain. Prominent scholars discuss the history...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

William Merritt Chase Volume 3: Landscapes in Oil

Pisano Ronald G., Lane Carolyn K., Baker D. Frederick

ISBN: HB: 9780300110203, Yale University Press, February 2009
248 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 209 colour illus., 49 black&white illus.

Admired for finding beauty in everyday surroundings, William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) brought an autobiographical element to his work, earning him a unique place in late-19th-century American art history. This book, the third of four volumes to docu...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Lancashire: North Buildings of England

Hartwell Clare, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300126679, Yale University Press, February 2009
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

The landscapes of this beautiful and rewarding area range from the shores of Morecambe Bay and the wild Forest of Bowland in the north to the coastal flatlands and Pennine mill towns in the south. Lancaster, the historic county town, boasts some of t...

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History of Art

Endless Forms Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts

Donald Diana, Munro Jane

ISBN: HB: 9780300148268, Yale University Press, February 2009
288 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 150 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Charles Darwin has had a profound influence on the fields of biology and natural history. But his ideas also imbued the work of many nineteenth-century artists. The slow process of evolution by "natural selection", the dynamic interplay of life forms...

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Contemporary Art

Disappearance of Objects New York Art and the Rise of the Postmodern City

Shannon Joshua

ISBN: HB: 9780300137064, Yale University Press, February 2009
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 48 colour images, 141 black&white illus.

In the years around 1960, a rapid process of deindustrialization profoundly changed New York City. At the same time, massive highway construction, urban housing renewal, and the growth of the financial sector altered the city's landscape. As the new...

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Europe

Terror by Quota State Security from Lenin to Stalin (an Archival Study)

Gregory Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300134254, Yale University Press, January 2009
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

This original analysis of the workings of Soviet state security organs under Lenin and Stalin addresses a series of questions that have long resisted satisfactory answers. Why did political repression affect so many people, most of them ordinary citi...

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