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Contemporary Art

Blinky Palermo Abstraction of an Era

Mehring Christine

ISBN: HB: 9780300122381, Yale University Press, December 2008
320 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 62 colour images, 99 black&white illus.

Twenty-one-year-old Peter Heisterkamp began signing his colourful and playful abstract artworks "Palermo" in 1964, when peers noted his resemblance to the American gangster Frank "Blinky" Palermo. This handsome book, a historical and critical study o...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Richard Parkes Bonington The Complete Paintings

Noon Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9780300134216, Yale University Press, December 2008
360 pp., 28x24 cm, 450 illus.

Only twenty-five at the time of his death in 1828, young Richard Parkes Bonington nevertheless was a seminal figure in the development of modernism in nineteenth-century French painting. By birth he was Anglo-French, and he epitomized the new spirit...

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History of Art

Unseemly Pictures Graphic Satire and Politics in Early Modern England

Pierce Helen

ISBN: HB: 9780300142549, Yale University Press, December 2008
224 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 100 black&white illus.

This engaging book is the first full study of the satirical print in seventeenth-century England from the rule of James I to the Regicide. It considers graphic satire both as a particular pictorial category within the wider medium of print and as a v...

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History of Art

Merchants, Princes and Painters Silk Fabrics in Italian and Northern Paintings 1300-1550

Monnas Lisa

ISBN: HB: 9780300111170, Yale University Press, December 2008
352 pp., 29x24.8 cm, 150 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Covering a period that witnessed the flowering of the Renaissance and the major expansion of the Italian silk industry, this volume examines the Italian silk fabrics depicted in paintings from Italy, England and the Netherlands over the course of 250...

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Philosophy

Provisional Politics Kantian Arguments in Policy Context

Ellis Elisabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300125221, Yale University Press, December 2008
208 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

If we are to vindicate moral reasoning in politics, Elisabeth Ellis argues in this original and provocative work, we must focus on the conditions of political discourse rather than the contents of any particular ethical system. Written in an engaging...

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Architecture

White Tower

Impey Edward

ISBN: HB: 9780300112931, Yale University Press, November 2008
256 pp., 31.1x24.8 cm, 40 colour images, 120 black&white illus.

The White Tower, the gigantic structure at the heart of the building complex known as the Tower of London, gave that famed landmark its name. One of the most celebrated buildings of the London cityscape for nearly 1000 years, it is also the most comp...

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Europe

Haunted City Nuremberg and the Nazi Past

Neil Gregor

ISBN: HB: 9780300101072, Yale University Press, November 2008
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Nuremberg – a city associated with Nazi excesses, party rallies, and the extreme anti-Semitic propaganda published by Hitler ally Julius Streicher – has struggled since the Second World War to come to terms with the material and moral legacies of Naz...

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Contemporary Art

Art and China's Revolution

Chiu Melissa, Shengtian Zheng

ISBN: HB: 9780300140644, Yale University Press, October 2008
280 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 150 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Although numerous books on the Cultural Revolution have been published, they do not analyze the profound shift in aesthetic values that occurred in China after the Communists took power. This fascinating book is the first to focus on artwork produced...

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History of Art

Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

Bayer Andrea, Brown Beverly, Edwards Nancy, Fahy Everett, Krohn Deborah L., Musacchio Jacqueline Marie, Thornton Dora, Grantham Turner James, Syson Luke

ISBN: HB: 9780300124118, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2008
352 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Many famous Italian Renaissance artworks were made to celebrate love and marriage. They were the pinnacles of a tradition, dating from the early Renaissance, of commemorating betrothal, marriage, and the birth of a child by commissioning extraordinar...

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Decorative Arts

Art of Japanese Craft 1875 to the Present

Fischer Felice

ISBN: PB: 9780300142129, Yale University Press, October 2008
60 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 74 colour images, 70 black&white illus.

From Japan's first forays onto the international stage of world's fairs in the late nineteenth century to the dynamic creativity of the 1920 and 1930s, from the heady post-World War II period to the present day, Japanese crafts have exhibited a rich...

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