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History of Art

American Pre-Raphaelites Radical Realists

Ferber Linda S., Anderson Nancy K., Barringer Tim, Dayer Gallati Barbara, Lynford Sophie, Mitchell Mark, Simon Janice, Waggoner Diane

ISBN: HB: 9780300242522, Yale University Press, April 2019
312 pp., 26x23.5 cm, 210 colour illus.

Bringing together insights from a distinguished group of scholars, this beautiful book analyzes the history and historiography of the American Pre-Raphaelites, and how the movement made its way from England to America. Led by Thomas Charles Farrer –...

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History of Art

Ancient World

Art of the Hellenistic Kingdoms From Pergamon to Rome

Hemingway Sean, Karoglou Kiki

ISBN: PB: 9781588396587, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2019
256 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

Authored by internationally renowned scholars, the 20 essays written for this volume explore topics ranging from the influence of Hellenistic art in the ancient Roman world to the ongoing excavations at Pergamon. All aspects of Hellenistic art are di...

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Decorative Arts

American Silver in the Philadelphia Museum of Art Volume 1: Makers A-F

Garvan Beatrice B., Barquist David L., Agro Elisabeth R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300229400, Yale University Press, January 2019
520 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 650 colour illus.

Beginning with Cesar Ghiselin in 1681, Philadelphia has a long and storied history of silversmithing that includes notable artists such as Joseph Richardson Sr. and Jr., Philip Syng Jr., and Olaf Skoogfors. Celebrating this legacy and showcasing the...

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Architecture

Art Deco Chicago Designing Modern America

Bruegmann Robert, Mekinda Jonathan, Edelstein Teri J., Schrenk Lisa D., Harris Neil

ISBN: HB: 9780300229936, Yale University Press, November 2018
412 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 207 colour illus., 118 black&white illus.

Frank Lloyd Wright's lost Midway Gardens, the iconic Sunbeam Mixmaster, and Marshall Field's famed window displays: despite the differences in scale and medium, each belongs to the broad current of an Art Deco style that developed in Chicago in the f...

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History of Art

Art of China Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Kinoshita Hiromi, Huang Xiaofeng, Li Diandian, Vollmer John E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300237108, Yale University Press, November 2018
256 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 250 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

This sumptuous presentation of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's wide-ranging collection of Chinese art features one hundred works in various media spanning antiquity to the present day – including Ming gold vessels, a 15th-century Buddhist temple cei...

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Design

Art of Graphic Design 30th Anniversary Edition

Thompson Bradbury, Helfand Jessica

ISBN: PB: 9780300238570, Yale University Press, November 2018
248 pp., 34x24.3 cm, 272 colour illus., 38 black&white illus.

Bradbury Thompson (1911-1995) remains one of the most admired and influential graphic designers of the twentieth century, having trained a generation of design students while on the faculty of the Yale School of Art for more than thirty years. The ar...

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History of Art

Art of Native America The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection

Torrence Gaylord, Blackhawk Ned, Yount Sylvia

ISBN: HB: 9781588396624, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2018
272 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

This landmark publication presents Native American art within the broader context of American art history, through an examination of notable works from a major private collection. The insightful texts provide a new evaluation of the art, culture, and...

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Political Science

America

All Measures Short of War The Contest for the Twenty-First Century and the Future of American Power

Wright Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300240276, ISBN: HB: 9780300223286, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A groundbreaking look at the future of great power competition in an age of globalization and what the United States can do in response. The two decades after the Cold War saw unprecedented cooperation between the major powers as the world converged...

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Decorative Arts

American Art Pottery The Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection

Frelinghuysen Alice Cooney, Eidelberg Martin, Spinozzi Adrienne

ISBN: HB: 9781588395962, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2018
384 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 420 colour illus.

During the height of the Arts and Crafts era in Europe and the United States, from the late 1800s until World War I, American ceramics were transformed from industrially produced ornamental and table wares to aesthetically and technologically innovat...

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Performing Arts

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Rosas 2007-2017

Dumais-Lvowski Christian, Keersmaekers Floor, Van Aerschot Anne

ISBN: HB: 9780300236873, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2018
256 pp., 33.5x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (b. 1960) is a renowned Belgian choreographer who over nearly four decades has created a legendary and internationally lauded oeuvre, a continuous exploration of the relationship between dance and music that borrows formal...

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