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Ignite the Power of Art Advancing Visitor Engagement in Museum Experiences
ISBN: PB: 9780300167542, Yale University Press, December 2010
104 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 tables, 60 colour illus.
How do visitors like to experience art? What makes for an enriching museum visit? The Dallas Museum of Art undertook a groundbreaking seven-year research initiative to answer these questions, examining how people connect with art and identifying pref...
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£10,99
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Bridget Riley Arcadia
ISBN: PB: 9781857094978, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, December 2010
56 pp., 26.8x22.6 cm, 50 colour illus.
For 50 years Bridget Riley has been regarded as Britain's most important abstract painter, renowned for her large abstract paintings, with their complex, repetitive geometric shapes and undulating linear patterns. Given the graphic nature of these wo...
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Neo-avant-garde and Postmodern Postwar Architecture in Britain and Beyond
ISBN: HB: 9780300166187, Yale University Press, December 2010
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 97 colour illus.
The neo-avant-garde and postmodernism have long been understood in terms of their re-working of modernism and a narrative emphasizing rupture and new beginnings. Compelling continuities between the two, especially in postwar Britain, suggest that a n...
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From Land to Mouth The Agricultural "Economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea Highlands
ISBN: HB: 9780300142266, Yale University Press, December 2010
512 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 172 black&white illus.
Offers a comparison of the apparently incomparable: our capitalist economy to the subsistence-cum-exchange order of the Wola people in the Was Valley.
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£75,00
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Question of Command Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq
ISBN: PB: 9780300168075, Yale University Press, November 2010
368 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 maps, 20 black&white illus.
According to the prevailing view of counterinsurgency, the key to defeating insurgents is selecting methods that will win the people's hearts and minds. The hearts-and-minds theory permeates not only most counterinsurgency books of the twenty-first c...
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£29,00
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Collector without Walls Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best
ISBN: HB: 9780300166729, Yale University Press, November 2010
480 pp., 30x25.2 cm, 2500 colour illus.
The American art collector Norton Simon assembled his astonishing collection of more than 8,000 artworks in just thirty-five years. In 1966, with no permanent home for the growing collection, Simon created his 'museum without walls' programme – lendi...
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Globalization at Risk Challenges to Finance and Trade
ISBN: HB: 9780300154092, Yale University Press, November 2010
288 pp., 28.8x23.4 cm, 18 black&white illus.
History has declared globalization the winner of the twentieth century. Globalization connected the world and created wealth unimaginable in the wake of the Second World War. But the financial crisis of 2008-09 has now placed at risk the liberal econ...
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Gloria F. Ross and Modern Tapestry
ISBN: HB: 9780300166354, Yale University Press, November 2010
400 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 45 black&white illus., 110 colour illus.
Gloria Ross (1923-1998) described her work as the translation of paint into wool. She was deeply committed to reinventing the centuries-old art of tapestry, particularly championing the handmade in contemporary art. This remarkable book, written by t...
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£45,00
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1912 Yale Peruvian Scientific Expedition Collections from Machu Picchu Human and Animal Remains
ISBN: PB: 9780913516218, Yale University Press, November 2010
198 pp., 24.5x17.2 cm, 12 charts, 60 black&white illus.
This second book in the Yale University Publications in Anthropology series dedicated to the Machu Picchu collections recovered early in the twentieth century from Machu Picchu by Hiram Bingham and the Yale Peruvian Scientific Expeditions analyzes th...
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Mozart and the Nazis How the Third Reich Abused a Cultural Icon
ISBN: HB: 9780300123067, Yale University Press, November 2010
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Despite the apparent incompatibility between Mozart's humanitarian and cosmopolitan outlook and Nazi ideology, the Third Reich tenaciously promoted the great composer's music to further the goals of the fascist regime. In this revelatory book, Erik L...
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