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History of Art

Wrath of the Gods Masterpieces by Rubens, Michelangelo, and Titian

Atkins Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300215243, Yale University Press, September 2015
112 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 75 colour illus.

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) proudly described his monumental painting Prometheus Bound as first among "the flower of my stock". This singular work demonstrates how Rubens engaged with and responded to his predecessors Michelangelo and Titian, with...

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Photography

Portraits The Human Clay

Friedlander Lee

ISBN: HB: 9780300215205, Yale University Press, September 2015
224 pp., 24.5x28 cm, 234 duotone illus.

American photographer Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) has had an expansive career, photographing his subjects-from family and friends to political figures and celebrities-in their everyday environments, while simultaneously changing the very landscape of h...

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Philosophy

Before Religion A History of a Modern Concept

Nongbri Brent

ISBN: PB: 9780300216783, Yale University Press, September 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm

Examining a wide array of ancient writings, Brent Nongbri dispels the commonly held idea that there is such a thing as "ancient religion". Nongbri shows how misleading it is to speak as though religion was a concept native to pre-modern cultures; at...

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Ancient World

Ancient Egypt Transformed The Middle Kingdom

Oppenheim Adela, Arnold Dorothea, Arnold Dieter, Yamamoto Kei

ISBN: HB: 9781588395641, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
400 pp., 31.1x24.9 cm, 365 colour illus., 42 black&white illus., 6 maps

The Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030-1700 B.C.), the second great era of ancient Egyptian culture, was a transformational period during which the artistic conventions, cultural principles, religious beliefs, and political systems formed during earlier dynast...

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Europe

Polonica

Salvaged Pages Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust

Zapruder Alexandra

ISBN: PB: 9780300205992, Yale University Press, September 2015
536 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

This stirring collection of diaries written by young people, aged twelve to twenty-two years, during the Holocaust has been fully revised and updated. Some of the writers were refugees, others were in hiding or passing as non-Jews, some were imprison...

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History of Art

Sultans of Deccan India, 1500-1700 Opulence and Fantasy

Haidar Navina Najat, Sardar Marika

ISBN: HB: 9780300211108, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
384 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 350 colour illus.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Deccan plateau of south-central India was home to a series of important, highly cultured Muslim kingdoms and was a nexus of international trade. Invigorated by cultural connections to Iran, Turkey, East Africa, and...

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History of Art

Decorative Arts

How to Read Chinese Ceramics

Leidy Denise Patry

ISBN: PB: 9781588395719, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
144 pp., 26.7x20.7 cm, 180 colour illus.

Chinese ceramics are among the most significant and widely collected decorative arts produced anywhere in the world, with a history that spans millennia. Despite the saturation of Chinese ceramics in global culture – in English, the word "china" has...

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Fiction

Anna Karenina

Tolstoy Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780300216820, Yale University Press, September 2015
800 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Tolstoy produced many drafts of "Anna Karenina". Crafting and recrafting each sentence with careful intent, his use of language was anything but casual. His project, translator Marian Schwartz observes, "was to bend language to his will, as an instru...

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Literary Criticism

Oscar Wilde's Chatterton Literary History, Romanticism, and the Art of Forgery

Bristow Joseph, Mitchell Rebecca N.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208306, Yale University Press, September 2015
488 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This book explores Oscar Wilde's fascination with the eighteenth-century forger Thomas Chatterton, who tragically took his life at the age of seventeen. This innovative study combines a scholarly monograph with a textual edition of the extensive note...

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Design

Symbols of Power Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-20th Century

Mackie Louise W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300206098, Yale University Press, September 2015
500 pp., 31.8x26 cm, 450 colour illus.

For centuries, luxury textiles were symbols of status, wealth, and power at Islamic imperial courts from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, setting standards for beauty and fueling prosperous, urban economies. This book offers an unparalleled examinat...

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