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John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 2: 1975-1986

Pardo Patrick, Dean Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300198102, Yale University Press, March 2014
496 pp., 29.2x25.1 cm, 500 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

Compiling four-hundred-plus unique works of art, this volume traces the shifts and developments in conceptual artist John Baldessari's work from 1975-1986. It covers his photo-based works such as the "Strobe", "Word Chain" and "Pathetic Fallacy" seri...

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Jewish Studies

Jews and Words

Oz Amos, Oz-Salzberger Fania

ISBN: PB: 9780300205848, Yale University Press, February 2014
160 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Why are words so important to Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger roam the gamut of Jewish history to explain the integral relationship of Jews and words. Through a blend of storytelling and scholarship, conversation and argument...

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Decorative Arts

Jewels by JAR

Sassoon Adrian

ISBN: HB: 9780300198683, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2013
120 pp., 22.9x20.3 cm, 65 colour illus.

Called "the Faberge of our time" by Diane von Furstenberg, Joel A. Rosenthal, who works in Paris under the name JAR, is one of the most acclaimed jewellery designers of the past thirty years. JAR is known for his use of precious and semi-precious sto...

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Photography

JFK A Photographic Memoir

Friedlander Lee

ISBN: HB: 9780300191080, Yale University Press, September 2013
60 pp., 21.6x23.5 cm, 49 tritone illus.

The public outpouring of support for newly elected President John F. Kennedy in 1960 was exceeded in scope and magnitude by the manifestations of grief and mourning after his assassination in 1963. These responses had an unusually strong visual compo...

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Biography & Memoires

Christianity

Julian of Norwichologian, Theologian

Turner Denys

ISBN: PB: 9780300192551, ISBN: HB: 9780300163919, Yale University Press, July 2013
288 pp., 21x14 cm

For centuries readers have comfortably adopted Julian of Norwich as simply a mystic. In this astute book, Denys Turner remedies this misapprehension, offering a sensitive new interpretation of Julian and the significance of her work. Turner argues th...

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Biography & Memoires

Poetry

John Keats

Roe Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9780300197273, Yale University Press, June 2013
480 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm

This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly sensitive, tragic figure. Instead, Nicholas Roe reveals the real flesh-and-blood poet: a passionate man driven by ambition but...

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Contemporary Art

Jennifer Bartlett: History of the Universe Works 1970-2011

Ottmann Klaus, Sultan Terrie, Bartlett Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780300197358, Yale University Press, June 2013
104 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 50 colour images, 110 black&white illus.

A critical and commercial success since the 1970s, Jennifer Bartlett (b. 1941) has become one of the most visionary and influential artists of our time. In the words of New York Times critic John Russell, Bartlett's art "enlarges our notion of time,...

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Contemporary Art

Jackson Pollock

Toynton Evelyn

ISBN: PB: 9780300192506, Yale University Press, May 2013
160 pp., 21x14 cm, 6 black&white illus.

Jackson Pollock's revolutionary 'drip paintings' put American art on the map, representing the first real break with the formal structures of European art. But it was not only his vibrant canvases that made him a celebrity during his life and a legen...

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Media Studies

Just Words Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Future of Public Conversation in America

Ackerman Alan L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300191967, ISBN: HB: 9780300167122, Yale University Press, April 2013
361 pp., 21x14 cm

In an appearance on "The Dick Cavett Show" in 1980, the critic Mary McCarthy glibly remarked that every word author Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, 'including 'and' and 'the'. Hellman immediately filed a libel suit, charging that McCarthy's comment...

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History of Art

Journeys to New Worlds Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Art in the Roberta and Richard Huber Collection

Stratton-Pruitt Suzanne L., Castro Mark A., Alcala Luisa Elena, Barquist David L., Marcos Margarita M. Estella, Quispe Cueva Enrique, Rishel Joseph J., Rivas Jorge F. P.

ISBN: HB: 9780300191769, Yale University Press, March 2013
198 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 198 colour images, 7 black&white illus.

This beautifully illustrated catalogue showcases 126 Spanish and Portuguese artworks from the 17th and 18th centuries, all highlights from the dazzling collection of Roberta and Richard Huber. Featuring works in a variety of media and from far-flung...

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