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Contemporary Art

Albert Oehlen Woods Near Oehle

Thuring Reto, Oehlen Albert, Wertmuller Michael, Williams Christopher

ISBN: SET: 9780300218404, Yale University Press, January 2017
104 pp., 30.5x23.8 cm, 70 colour illus.

This multimedia boxed set presents a sweeping look at work by pioneering German painter Albert Oehlen (b. 1954), one of the most energetic and significant artists working today. Deeply influenced by literature, music, film, and graphic design, Oehlen...

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History of Art

Biography & Memoires

Albrecht Durer A Documentary Biography

Ashcroft Jeffrey

ISBN: HB: 9780300210842, Yale University Press, January 2017
1216 pp., 24x17 cm, 70 black&white illus.

Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was hailed in his lifetime as a founder of the Northern Renaissance, and his work revolutionized the art of printmaking. Durer was also the first artist outside Italy to leave behind a large body of writing. Contemporaries...

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Military

International Civil War Greece, 1943-1949

Gerolymatos Andre

ISBN: PB: 9780300180602, Yale University Press, January 2017
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

An authoritative history of the Greek Civil War and its profound influence on American foreign policy and the post-Second World War period In his comprehensive history Andre Gerolymatos demonstrates how the Greek Civil War played a pivotal role in th...

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Contemporary Art

Aleksandr Zhitomirsky Photomontage as a Weapon of World War II and the Cold War

Wolf Erika

ISBN: HB: 9780300219180, Yale University Press, A+D Series, January 2017
368 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 300 colour illus.

The first comprehensive study in English of the Soviet propaganda artist Aleksandr Zhitomirsky, who conceived and deployed his striking photomontages as a political weapon The leading Russian propaganda artist Aleksandr Zhitomirsky (1907-1993) made p...

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Contemporary Art

Carmen Herrera Lines of Sight

Miller Dana, Lemoine Serge, Mosquera Gerardo, Sullivan Edward J., Espinel Monica

ISBN: HB: 9780300221862, Yale University Press, January 2017
232 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 180 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.

An overdue evaluation of the life and work of a prolific and significant contemporary artist Cuban-born artist Carmen Herrera (b. 1915) has painted for more than seven decades, though it is only in recent years that acclaim for her work has catapulte...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 2 (1915-1927)

Camfield William A., Pierre Arnauld, Clements Candace, Calte Beverley, Verdier Aurelie, Calte Pierre

ISBN: HB: 9780300222463, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, January 2017
550 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 600 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

The second of an important multi-volume catalogue project, this publication features work by Francis Picabia (1879-1953) that dates from 1915 into mid-1927. Beginning with Picabia's elaboration of a personal machinist aesthetic, the book continues by...

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America

Asia

Asian America A Primary Source Reader

Schlund-Vials Cathy J., Wong K. Scott, Chang Jason Oliver

ISBN: PB: 9780300195446, Yale University Press, January 2017
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.

An essential collection that brings together the core primary texts of the Asian American experience in one volume An essential volume for the growing academic discipline of Asian American studies, this collection of core primary texts draws from a w...

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Architecture

New Space Movement and Experience in Viennese Modern Architecture

Long Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300218282, Yale University Press, January 2017
264 pp., 26.7x23.5 cm, 130 colour illus., 114 black&white illus.

Scholars have long stressed the problem of ornament and expression when considering Viennese modernism. By the first decade of the 20th century, however, the avant-garde had shifted its focus from the surface to the interior. Adolf Loos (1870-1933),...

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Fiction

At Twilight They Return A Novel in Ten Tales

Zateli Zyranna, Connolly David

ISBN: HB: 9780300200713, Yale University Press, January 2017
528 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The powerful and stylistically brilliant saga of a family by one of contemporary Greece's most acclaimed literary masters Zyranna Zateli's ambitious, multigenerational saga is the story of Christoforos, who first weds Petroula, and then Eftha, follow...

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Europe

Spanish Resurgence, 1713-1748

Storrs Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300216899, Yale University Press, January 2017
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A major reassessment of Philip V's leadership and what it meant for the modern Spanish state Often dismissed as ineffective, indolent, and dominated by his second wife, Philip V of Spain (1700-1746), the first Bourbon king, was in fact the greatest t...

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