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Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 3 (1927-1939)
ISBN: HB: 9780300243727, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2019
464 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 525 colour illus.
This third volume in a planned four-volume catalogue raisonne of works by the French avant-garde artist Francis Picabia (1879-1953) includes paintings and selected drawings dating from mid-1927 through 1939. Innovative collage-paintings and flamboyan...
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£135,00
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Friendship in the Hebrew Bible
ISBN: HB: 9780300182682, Yale University Press, March 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
The first comprehensive study of friendship in the Hebrew Bible Friendship, though a topic of considerable humanistic and cross disciplinary interest in contemporary scholarship, has been largely ignored by scholars of the Hebrew Bible, possibly beca...
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£40,00
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Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 2 (1915-1927)
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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Franz Kafka The Poet of Shame and Guilt
ISBN: PB: 9780300219722, ISBN: HB: 9780300136616, Yale University Press, May 2016
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Franz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his life he struggled with a pervasive sense of shame and guilt that left traces in his daily existence – in his many letters, extensive diaries, and especially in his fiction. This stimulating...
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Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 1 (1898-1914)
ISBN: HB: 9780300208283, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2014
504 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 425 colour images, 50 black&white illus.
This publication is the first of four volumes in the catalogue raisonne of Francis Picabia, one of the most significant, challenging artists of the 20th century. The works in Volume I range from Picabia's early pieces as an Impressionist in 1898 to h...
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£135,00
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Formation of the Jewish Canon
ISBN: HB: 9780300164343, Yale University Press, November 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls provides unprecedented insight into the nature of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament before its fixation. Timothy Lim here presents a complete account of the formation of the canon in Ancient Judaism from the emer...
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£34,00
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Ford Madox Brown A Catalogue Raisonne (vol. 1 and 2)
ISBN: HB: 9780300165913, Yale University Press, June 2010
686 pp., 28x24.8 cm, 522 black&white illus., 458 colour illus.
Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893) is known predominantly for his close association, from 1848, with the "Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood" and for his masterpiece, "The Last of England" (1852-1855), with its poignant imagery of a young emigrant couple aboard sh...
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£125,00
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First and Second Letters to Timothy
ISBN: HB: 9780300139884, Yale University Press, December 2007
512 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
The letters of Paul to Timothy, one of his favorite delegates, often make for difficult reading in today's world. They contain much that make modern readers uncomfortable, and much that is controversial, including pronouncements on the place of women...
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£55,00
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Five Centuries of Hanukkah Lamps from the Jewish Museum A Catalogue Raisonne
ISBN: HB: 9780300106237, Yale University Press, March 2005
424 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 129 colour images, 497 duotones and 163 halftones illus.
The observance of Hanukkah as a time of freedom and miracles resonates strongly with Jews today as in centuries past, and the Hanukkah lamp is central to the celebratory ritual. The importance of the Hanukkah lamp is reflected in the collection of Th...
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£75,00
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Flemish Art and Architecture 1585-1700
ISBN: PB: 9780300104691, Yale University Press, December 2004
288 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 100 colour images, 200 black&white illus.
This beautifully illustrated book provides a complete overview of the art of the Southern Netherlands from 1585 to 1700. The author examines the development of Flemish and specifically Antwerp painting, the work of Rubens and other leading masters, a...
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£45,00
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