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Posters
Design
Windows on the War Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945
Kort Zegers Peter, Druick Douglas W., Akinsha Konstantin, Bird Robert, Bugajski Jill, Jolles Adam
ISBN: HB: 9780300170238, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2011
400 pp., 32.4x24.8 cm, 300 colour images, 140 black&white illus.
"Windows on the War" is a groundbreaking publication – the first in English to focus on posters designed by the Soviet Union's "TASS" news agency to bolster support for the Soviet war effort. "TASS" posters were created by a large collective of Sovie...
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Design
Fashion
Knoll Textiles, 1945-2010
Martin Earl
ISBN: HB: 9780300170696, Yale University Press, July 2011
400 pp., 26.5x21.6 cm, 300 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.
In 1940, Hans Knoll founded a company in New York that soon earned a reputation for its progressive line of furniture. Florence Schust joined the firm and helped establish its interior design division, the Knoll Planning Unit. In 1947, the year after...
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Contemporary Art
Design
Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life Early Twentieth-Century European Modernism
Witkovsky Matthew S.
ISBN: HB: 9780300166095, Yale University Press, A+D Series, July 2011
160 pp., 25x15 cm, 160 colour illus.
Beginning around 1910, vanguard artists demanded that true art go beyond the intellectual and transform daily life. This volume highlights the work of six influential European artists who took this idea into the wider world, where it merged enthusias...
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Design
Interior Design
Wall Art
ISBN: HB: 9789881892331, Bookport, SendPoints, June 2011
256 pp., 26x19 cm, 300 colour illus.
For sale in Balkans only! "Wall Art" brings together an eclectic mix of the extensive designs and patterns to have graced walls across the globe. Transmitting the tastes, interests and character of its owners- the outside visitor is treated to a vi...
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Design
Design and Truth
Robert Grudin
ISBN: PB: 9780300171310, Yale University Press, June 2011
224 pp., 20.3x14 cm, 5 black&white illus., 8 colour illus.
"If good design tells the truth", writes Robert Grudin in this path-breaking book on aesthetics and authority, "poor design tells a lie, a lie usually related... to the getting or abusing of power". From the ornate cathedrals of Renaissance Europe to...
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History of Art
Contemporary Art
Collecting Modern Design at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Since 1876
Hiesinger Kathryn Bloom
ISBN: HB: 9780300122190, Yale University Press, May 2011
272 pp., 30.7x27.2 cm, 48 black&white illus., 251 colour illus.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art was founded in 1876, after its home city hosted the Centennial, with the primary goal of acquiring important examples of contemporary design and decorative arts. "Collecting Modern" explores for the first time the devel...
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Design
Posters
Health for Sale Posters from the H. Helfand Collection
Helfand William H., Ittmann John, Howe Shoemaker Innis
ISBN: PB: 9780300171174, Yale University Press, April 2011
60 pp., 27.2x20.3 cm, 5 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.
Since the late 1960s, William H. Helfand has donated more than 1,000 posters, prints, and ephemera to the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Ars Medica Collection, the world's only collection of medical prints housed in an art museum. This fascinating volu...
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Literary Criticism
Design
Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Blake William, Phillips Michael
ISBN: HB: 9781851243419, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2011
184 pp., 23.5x15 cm, 52 colour illus.
No work has challenged its readers like Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell". His "Proverbs of Hell" have been culled for the slogans of student protest and become axioms of modern thought. Iconoclastic, bizarre, unprecedented, it is all of thes...
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Literary Criticism
Design
Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Blake William, Phillips Michael
ISBN: PB: 9781851243662, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2011
184 pp., 23.5x15 cm, 52 colour illus.
No work has challenged its readers like Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell". His "Proverbs of Hell" have been culled for the slogans of student protest and become axioms of modern thought. Iconoclastic, bizarre, unprecedented, it is all of thes...
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Architecture
Design
Structure of Light Richard Kelly and the Illumination of Modern Architecture
Neumann Dietrich
ISBN: HB: 9780300163704, Yale University Press, November 2010
256 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 131 black&white illus., 114 colour illus.
The potential of electric light as a new building "material" was recognized in the 1920s and became a useful design tool by the mid-century. Skilful lighting allowed for theatricality, narrative, and a new emphasis on structure and space. "The Struct...
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