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Performing Arts

Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1890-1950 A Critical Anthology

Knopf Robert, Listengarten Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780300206739, Yale University Press, September 2015
546 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

An essential volume for theatre artists and students alike, this anthology includes the full texts of sixteen important examples of avant-garde drama from the most daring and influential artistic movements of the first half of the twentieth century,...

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Architecture

Rafael Moneo Building, Teaching, Writing

de Canales Francisco Gonzalez, Ray Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780300139129, Yale University Press, September 2015
308 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 50 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

The Spanish architect Rafael Moneo (b. 1937) has won numerous awards (including the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize), yet this publication is the first to offer a critical study of his career as a whole-not only his many built works and proje...

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Law

Imperial from the Beginning The Constitution of the Original Executive

Saikrishna Prakash

ISBN: HB: 9780300194562, Yale University Press, September 2015
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Eminent scholar Saikrishna Prakash offers the first truly comprehensive study of the original American presidency. Drawing from a vast range of sources both well known and obscure, this volume reconstructs the powers and duties of the nation's chief...

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History of Art

Biography & Memoires

Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky Friends in Exile: A Decade of Correspondence, 1929-1940

Boissel Jessica, Weber Nicholas Fox

ISBN: PB: 9780300212570, Yale University Press, September 2015
172 pp., 26x19 cm, 40 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

Josef Albers (1888-1976) and Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), artists and teachers at the Bauhaus, were exiled from Germany when the school was forced to close in the early 1930s. The 46 letters in this volume document the intimate exchange between the...

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Contemporary Art

Art for Every Home Associated American Artists, 1934-2000

Seaton Elizabeth G., Myers Jane, Windisch Gail

ISBN: HB: 9780300215793, Yale University Press, September 2015
288 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 205 colour illus.

The Associated American Artists was a commercial enterprise best known for publishing prints by Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, and Grant Wood. Founded in 1934, AAA began as a crucial income opportunity for artists during the Great Depression...

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Contemporary Art

Corita Kent and the Language of Pop

Dackerman Susan, Roberts Jennifer L., Meyer Richard, Bryan-Wilson Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780300214710, Yale University Press, September 2015
338 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 270 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.

Known widely as a Catholic nun with an avant-garde flair, Corita Kent (1918-1986) has a personal legacy that has tended to overshadow her extensive career as an artist. This handsomely illustrated catalogue places Kent in her rightful position among...

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Europe

Age of Catastrophe A History of the West 1914-1945

Winkler Heinrich August

ISBN: HB: 9780300204896, Yale University Press, September 2015
1016 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Characterized by global war, political revolution and national crises, the period between 1914 and 1945 was one of the most horrifying eras in the history of the West. A noted scholar of modern German history, Heinrich August Winkler examines how and...

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Contemporary Art

Whitney Museum of American Art Handbook

Miller Dana, Weinberg Adam D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300211832, Yale University Press, September 2015
425 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, 500 colour illus.

This all-new handbook, a fresh look at the "Whitney Museum of American Art's" collection, highlights the museum's extraordinary holdings and its fascinating history. Featuring iconic pieces by artists such as Calder, Hopper, Johns, O'Keeffe, and Warh...

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Asia

Islam

Age of Transition Byzantine Culture in the Islamic World

Evans Helen C., Humphrey Lyle, Brody Lisa, Snow Carol, Bleiberg Edward, Fine Stephen, Labatt Annie, Sinai Hieromonk Justin, Nees Lawrence, Schick Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300211115, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
160 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 150 colour illus.

In 2012 the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented "Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition", a groundbreaking exhibition that explored the transformations and continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the 7th to the 9th century. During this time of his...

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History of Art

Kongo Power and Majesty

LaGamma Alisa

ISBN: HB: 9781588395757, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
308 pp., 28x23.4 cm, 261 colour illus.

Artists from the kingdom of Kongo – a vast swath of Central Africa that today encompasses the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola-were responsible for outstanding creative achievements. With the influx of Portuguese, Dutch...

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