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Contemporary Art

Picasso and American Art

Fitzgerald Michael, Boddewyn Julia May

ISBN: HB: 9780300114522, Yale University Press, September 2006
368 pp., 31x24.7 cm, 150 colour images, 150 black&white illus.

Many American artists throughout the 20th century designated Pablo Picasso as the central figure of the modern movement and defined their own artistic achievements through their absorption, critique, or rejection of his example. "Picasso and American...

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History of Art

Painting Summer in New England

Fairbrother Trevor J., Monroe Daniel L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300116922, Yale University Press, March 2006
136 pp., 27.9x25 cm, 81 colour images, 10 black&white illus.

With its stunning coastlines, mountains, lakes, forests, and scenic villages, New England has been an inspiration for American artists since the 19th century. This lively book considers the ways in which painters have responded to the region's summer...

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Italian

Pronti... Via! Beginning Italian (Student Textbook)

Melis Daniela

ISBN: HB: 9780300108422, Yale University Press, March 2006
416 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 50 black&white illus., 154 colour illus.

"Pronti... Via!" is a complete beginning Italian language course that focuses on communication skills without excluding grammar. This timely programme is based on solid language acquisition theory and reflects an eclectic approach that includes using...

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History of Art

Perfect Likeness Portrait Miniatures from the Cincinnati Museum of Art

Aronson Julie, Wieseman Marjorie E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300115802, Yale University Press, February 2006
344 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm

Diminutive marvels of artistry and fine craftsmanship, portrait miniatures reveal a wealth of information within their small frames. They can tell tales of cultural history and biography, of people and their passions, of evolving tastes in jewellery,...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Picasso Architecture and Vertigo

Green Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300104127, Yale University Press, February 2006
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 60 colour images, 60 black&white illus.

The starting point of this exciting new exploration of Picasso is not his life but his work, which is revealed as a series of interventions in the troubled history of early twentieth-century Europe. Christopher Green shows how these interventions are...

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Photography

Portraits of the Hazleton Public Schools

Ross Judith Joy, Reynolds Jock

ISBN: HB: 9780300115840, Yale University Press, February 2006
88 pp., 30.1x27.3 cm, 67 tritone illus.

Acclaimed for the emotional acuity of her portraits, Judith Joy Ross is an accomplished photographer whose work is found in the collections of America's major museums. This exquisitely produced book focuses on one of Ross's most personal series to da...

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Europe

Ponary Diary, July 1941 - November 1943 A Bystander's Account of a Mass Murder

Sakowicz Kazimierz, Arad Yitzhak, Weinbaum Laurance

ISBN: HB: 9780300108538, Yale University Press, January 2006
192 pp., 21x14 cm

About sixty thousand Jews from Wilno (Vilnius), present-day Lithuania, and surrounding townships were murdered by the Nazis and their Lithuanian collaborators in huge pits on the outskirts of Ponary. Over a period of several years, Kazimierz Sakowicz...

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Performing Arts

Playwriting The Structure of Action

Smiley Sam, Bert Norman A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300107241, Yale University Press, October 2005
336 pp., 21x14 cm

This practical guide provides the principles of dramatic writing. Playwrights and screenwriters will discover these essential principles and acquire the tools to put them to use. Sam Smiley incorporates extensive new material in "Playwriting: The Str...

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Photography

Perfect Medium Photography and the Occult

Cheroux Clement, Fischer Andreas, Apraxine Pierre, Canguilhem Denis, Schmit Sophie

ISBN: HB: 9780300111361, Yale University Press, September 2005
288 pp., 28x22.8 cm, 280 colour illus.

In the early days of photography, many believed and hoped that the camera would prove more efficient than the human eye in capturing the unseen. Spiritualists and animists of the nineteenth century seized on the new technology as a method of substant...

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History of Art

Paintings and Drawings in the Wrightsman Collection

Fahy Everett, Rosenberg Pierre, Barker Elizabeth E., Goldner George, Ives Colta, Rewald Sabine, Stein Perrin, Tinterow Gary

ISBN: HB: 9780300107197, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2005
320 pp., 28x22.8 cm, 180 colour illus.

This lavish catalogue presents 150 European paintings, pastels, and drawings from the late fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century that have been given to the Metropolitan Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman or are still held in Mrs. Wrightsman...

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