Art & Photography Books
Yale University Press Houses
Book SynopsisAn enthusiast's guide to exploring historic houses of England, this informative book, now in paperback,also enables readers to discover more about the history of their own houses. Users can learn to interpret domestic architecture, identify period styles, uncover the origins of a building, and understand why rooms are arranged in particular sequences, why window and chimney designs change through history, or why staircases are presented in a certain fashion. Color photography and informative line drawings illustrate the explanations and provide a rich visual history of domestic architecturefrom the earliest surviving dwellings to the most avant-garde developments.
£14.99
Yale University Press Seen from Behind
Book SynopsisRenaissance bodies, dressed and undressed, have not lacked attention in art historical literature, but scholarship on the male body has generally concentrated on phallic-oriented masculinity and been connected to issues of patriarchy and power. This original book examines the range of meaning that has been attached to the male backside in Renaissance art and culture, the transformation of the base connotation of the image to high art, and the question of homoerotic impulses or implications of admiring male figures from behind. Representations of the male body's behind have often been associated with things obscene, carnivalesque, comical, or villainous. Presenting serious scholarship with a deft hand, Seen from Behind expands our understanding of the motif of the male buttocks in Renaissance art, revealing both continuities and changes in the ways the images convey meaning and have been given meaning. Trade Review“Rubin’s writing is super fruity” — James Hall, The Art Newspaper“Rubin offers many valuable insights on what Lucian Freud called the 'emotional vocabulary' of the naked body and the resonance and recurrence of postures: hands on hips, legs astride or prone with the buttocks raised [. . .] She has opened up a wonderful subject” —Alan Hollinghurst, Literary Review“Although the text is remarkably playful [. . .], its rhetorical lightness is paired with substantial argument” —Sarah Betzer Burlington Magazine
£52.25
Yale University Press The Gauguin Atlas
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A propulsive read.”—Holland Cotter, New York Times Book Review“A series of brief chapters organized by [Gauguin’s] oft-changing places of residence . . . The Gauguin Atlas follows his travels, year by year . . . A propulsive read.”—Holland Cotter, New York Times Book Review
£17.09
Yale University Press Sounds
Book SynopsisTrade Review“I remember buying a copy of Sounds when it was first published in English, and the thrill of discovering this work, page by page. Kandinsky’s synthesis of abstraction and representation, of sound and meaning, remains an exciting challenge for artists and poets today. Sounds is unlike any other book. It belongs on the bookshelf of anyone interested in abstract art, poetry, and the unpredictable cavorting of the two.”—John Yau, author of Bijoux in the Dark“Possibly the most beautiful, innovative, and influential artist’s book of the twentieth century. A landmark that synthesizes Kandinsky’s pioneering abstractions with his radical sound poems and experimental typography.”—Starr Figura, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
£999.99
Yale University Press Sussex Modernism
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£31.50
Yale University Press The Story of Architecture
Book SynopsisAn inviting exploration of architecture across cultures and centuries by one of the field’s eminent authorsTrade Review“Rybczynski’s expansive account traces the influence of social, technological, and economic shifts on architecture across centuries.”—New York Times Book Review“A calm, gentlemanly and intelligent book. . . . This is a book with deep pilings of knowledge supporting a facade of avuncular charm. . . . It has so much humane warmth that even modestly chilly rebukes seem out of place.”—Stephen Bayley, Spectator“[Rybczynski] is a subtle reader of buildings and their meanings, and this is an elegant and thoughtful primer on the built environment.”—Michael Prodger, New Statesman“An intriguing read. . . . Rybczynski is an engaging writer, skilled in making esoteric content accessible to a broad readership.”—Kelvin Browne, Literary Review of Canada“The Story of Architecture is a great treasure. What a rare gift Rybczynski has. Students lucky enough to immerse themselves in these pages will remember the experience forever.”—Ingrid Rowland, author of Vitruvius: Ten Books on Architecture“Ever the pragmatist, Rybczynski shares exactly what he sees and what he wants us to see. Simultaneously celebrating the power of architectural practice over many centuries and the humanness always inherent in the creation of great buildings, this remarkable book is accessible to a broad public yet full of wisdom for the practicing architect.”—William Rawn, founding principal, William Rawn Associates Architects“Rybczynski’s riveting narrative, in a voice both erudite and personal, illuminates an anthology of important buildings. He reveals not only the historical and intellectual roots but above all the beauty of the architecture.”—Peter Pennoyer, architect and author of A House in the Country“Witold Rybczynski is one of architecture’s most genial storytellers. His newest tome, The Story of Architecture—told primarily through the Western canon—is a wonderful and refreshingly readable primer on the development of the art of building.”—Deborah Berke, FAIA, dean, Yale School of Architecture
£23.75
Yale University Press Nottinghamshire
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[In] the greatly revised, extended Nottinghamshire volume of The Buildings of England…starting with the Normans – notably at Southwell Minster and Worksop Priory, but also at about four dozen parish churches – most styles of architecture are represented in the county, with exceptionally fine examples.”—Simon Heffer, The Telegraph“Clare Hartwell is to be congratulated...This volume brings the county into line with its neighbouring counties some of whom have had this new and larger format for many years...But the single most important improvement is the use and the superb quality of the Colour photographs taken by Martine Hamilton Knight.”—Pete Smith, The Thoroton Society Newsletter “One of Clare’s particular rediscoveries is the diminutive but evocative West Stockwith, a centre of shipbuilding in the 17th and 18th centuries but now well past its prime.”—Ancient Monuments Society Newsletter “It is, of course, a notoriously difficult job to walk in Pevsner’s footsteps but Hartwell has been doing so for a long time now.”—Julian Holder, The Victorian“Another sound, well researched and very solid volume in the series it certainly is...If you live or go there [Nottinghamshire] you will want a copy. Despite the virtues of the two previous editions the increased material, fine quality and many illustrations and helpful maps of this volume merit the expenditure of upgrading.”—Graham Kent, Journal of Historic Buildings and Places Shortlisted for the 2021 Colvin Prize by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
£54.00
Yale University Press Building a new New World
Book SynopsisAn essential exploration of how Russian ideas about the United States shaped architecture and urban design from the czarist era to the fall of the U.S.S.R.Trade Review“The book isn’t argumentative or polemical so much as illuminating, a collection of extraordinary anecdotes, objects and ephemera. . . . The illustrations, some of which are assembled into photo-essays between chapters, are stories in themselves.”—Owen Hatherley, London Review of Books“A fascinating history of reflections and distortions that traces the image of Russia and that of modernity itself.”—Arquitectura VivaNamed One of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2020, sponsored by the Swiss Culture Awards Federal Office of CultureWinner of the SAH Exhibition Catalogue Award, sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians
£28.50
Yale University Press Georgian Arcadia
Book SynopsisExplores the origins and evolution of Georgian landscape architecture, a period of innovative and diverse garden structures in which some of the era’s greatest architects experimented with different forms, styles, and new technologyTrade Review“This book thus represents the life’s work of a doyen, and it shows. White convinces utterly in his thesis.”—Iona McLaren, The Telegraph“Scholarly yet approachable—and lavishly illustrated with 290 colour plates and black-and-white illustrations—this is a title for enthusiasts as much as experts.”—INIGO“An architectural historian and authority . . . [White has] produced a synthesis of this most alluring topic. The result is a richly illustrated volume, one that merits our attention.”—Timothy Mowl, Country Life“Wherever you turn in Georgian Arcadia, you’re confronted with ruins, follies and eyecatchers—the richest, most varied collection of beautiful and bizarre structures that you’re ever likely to meet.”—Adrian Tinniswood, The Critic“Yale have brought out [this] current tome, packed with a lifetime’s thought and observation. It’s a milestone.”—Clive Aslet, Oldie“Roger has had a long fascination with this subject and this richly illustrated book is the result. It is highly readable and informative, and also enjoyed encyclopaedic.”—Jeremy Musson, House & Garden“Written by an enthusiastic and knowledgeable expert who successfully manages to transmit his enthusiasm and make his knowledge accessible to the more general reader.”—Sally Jeffery, Garden History“[A] magisterial survey of Georgian landscape buildings. . . . Georgian Arcadia is an important book, but it is also an entertaining one.”—Adrian Tinniswood, The Critic“White is an opinionated, amusing guide to the architectural follies—and aristocratic folly—of 18th-century British garden design.”—Iona McLaren, The Telegraph, Summer reading list“This excellent book has taken many years in its making and explores the origins and evolution of Georgian landscape architecture. It contains 290 glorious colour and black & white illustrations.”—JK, Follies Magazine“This is a beautifully produced book at a reasonable price, which can be highly recommended as a gazetteer to the pleasures to be enjoyed in the exploration of the designed landscapes of Georgian Britain” —Malcolm Airs, Context, Journal of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation
£38.00
Yale University Press The Throne of the Great Mogul in Dresden
Book SynopsisA masterful deciphering of an extraordinary art object, illuminating some of the biggest questions of the eighteenth centuryTrade Review“This book is truly compelling. In its rethinking of a singular object, Wahrman manages to write a startlingly new history of court culture, consumption, representation, the material, the Baroque . . . and Dresden. I loved it.”—Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes “Wahrman takes us on brilliant and enthralling tour of late seventeenth-century European culture. This deftly crafted book takes the artisanal productions of that age as its best portraits, and always to the reader’s delight.”—Timothy Brook, author of Vermeer’s Hat “Wahrman deciphers a truly unique, incredibly puzzling work of art and uses it as a key to the universe of baroque culture. A masterpiece of refined scholarship, elegantly written, full of subtle interpretations and surprising insights.”—Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/Institute for Advanced Study “Departing from a painstaking and elegant study of a single Saxon masterpiece, Dror Wahrman’s book offers us a breakthrough model for writing the history of eighteenth-century material culture in a transnational perspective.”—Suzanne Marchand, author of Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe
£28.50
Yale University Press Myth and Menagerie
Book SynopsisAn innovative examination of encounters between humans and lions and representations of these charismatic animals in the visual culture of postrevolutionary FranceTrade Review“A brilliant but also sobering analysis of the images produced by and around a ‘man-made ecological disaster.’ It is also an intensely personal book.”—Tom Stammers, APOLLO“Extraordinarily well-researched and a deeply engrossing read, Myth and Menagerie moves across textual and visual artifacts with great fluency, bringing readers as close as possible to the once-living lions who inspired the book.”—Natania Meeker, University of Southern California“Hornstein accords lions the dignity, empathy, and respect that they were habitually denied in the period and have rarely received in historical scholarship. Myth and Menagerie is an achievement for its originality and the depth with which it examines lion-human interactions.”—David O’Brien, author of Exiled in Modernity: Delacroix, Civilization, and Barbarism
£57.00
Yale University Press Aleksandr Rodchenko
Book SynopsisThrough the lens of Aleksandr Rodchenko’s photography, a new and provocative understanding emerges of the troubled relationship between technology, modernism, and state power in Stalin’s Soviet UnionTrade Review“Glebova’s book is a valuable addition to the literature on this remarkable and always relevant figure.”—Peter Lowe, Russian Art + Culture“Glebova’s painstaking analysis reveals a more complex side to [Rodchenko’s] work. . . . An unflinching focus on the far more opaque and challenging work Rodchenko undertook in the dark years of the 1930s.”—Rosamund Bartlett, Literary ReviewCo-winner of the MSA 1st Book Prize, sponsored by the Modernist Studies Association“Glebova’s perspicacious and eloquent readings of Rodchenko’s works make new, and make much richer, his body of work.”—Kristin Romberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign“This is the most important book on Rodchenko, and an indispensable book to Russian art history, to the history of photography, and to the story of how modern art intersects with life and how artists practice their politics.”—Andrei Pop, University of Chicago
£47.50
Yale University Press The People Shall Govern Medu Art Ensemble and
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Medu fought for the liberation of South Africa through screen prints and lithographs . . . This book assembles nearly all the surviving specimens, and should offer young artists a model of collective authorship and political engagement.”—Jason Farago, New York Times (“Best Art Books of 2020”)
£28.50
Yale University Press John Craxton
Book SynopsisUplifting and engaging, this story recounts the life and career of a rebellious 20th-century British artistTrade Review“A revelatory biography...reminds us that Craxton and Lucian Freud were once “thick as thieves”, 19-year-olds in wartime London carousing together at the Ritz in baggy blue jeans.”—The Daily Telegraph“This beautifully produced book is a feast for the eyes and senses, full of reproductions of Craxton’s paintings of Greece, the country he loved most on earth.”—Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Daily Mail ‘Book of the Week’“An account meticulous in detail and filled with incident...Craxton maintained a lifelong aversion to the prolix formulations of art critics, and it is easy to see how Collins, who excels at succinct yet suggestive glosses, was his ideal writer.”—James Cahill, Times Literary Supplement"A beautifully written book...Craxton spent most of his life wanting to live in Greece and when he finally got there it was everything he wanted it to be. Even reading it feels like being bathed in sunlight."—Mark Gatiss, The Times“An illuminating account, dotted with wonderful vignettes [and] numerous magnificently vibrant depictions of the artist’s work...This uplifting book about a man who sought every opportunity to live to the full offers readers much to enjoy.”—Martin Bentham, Evening Standard “Running through the highs and lows like a seam of gold is his distinctive body of work, beautifully illustrated, and the indomitable, teasing, sometimes rebarbative voice that charmed so many, always building up to the next joke, never taking itself too seriously, and sweeping all but the most cynical along with it."—Ariane Bankes, Spectator “No one knows more about Craxton than Ian Collins...A rich and sympathetic book.”—Tom Fleming, Apollo Magazine“[A] thoroughly researched, attractive and vivid biography”—Alexander Adams Art“A joyful adventure story of an artist's life...Collins's biography is constantly entertaining and visually rich with filmic moments.”—Gill Hedley, The Burlington Magazine“A full biography of a fascinating man who led a fascinating life”—Dancing Times“I enjoyed immensely reading this informative book...Stories are thrilling and picturesque, opinions contrarian, startling and corrective.”—David Lee, The Jackdaw“Ian Collins’s engagingly partisan biography conveys qualities not easily evoked, the appeal of a character whose default mode was happiness and who, if he had a tendency to ‘put his own interests first’ and to be ‘unreliable in an emergency’, had a care for others too. He made many friends, ‘mostly for life’.”—Rosemary Hill, London Review of BooksWinner of the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2022Longlisted for the William M. B. Berger Prize for British Art History 2022
£28.50
Yale University Press About The Rose
Book SynopsisA remarkable portrait of a web of artistic connections, traced outward from Jay DeFeo's uniquely generative work of artTrade ReviewWinner of the SECAC Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication“An insightful reading of Jay DeFeo’s The Rose and the dynamics of creative community building in postwar America.”—Ken D. Allan, Seattle University“Rich in archival detail and incisive visual analysis, About The Rose makes a highly successful intervention into the field of postwar art by advancing a new approach to the function of community in the Fillmore art scene during the 1950s and 60s.”—Joanna Pawlik, author of Remade in America: Surrealist Art, Activism and Politics, 1940–1978“Ferrell gives us a wholly new understanding of The Rose not just as an important presence in the lives of her protagonists, but as a site for working out the dichotomies between self and other, autonomy and collaboration, and art and the everyday in postwar America.”—Kirsten Swenson, author of Irrational Judgments: Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, and 1960s New York
£47.50
Yale University Press Back to the Drawing Board
Book SynopsisThe first book to consider the importance of commercial art and design for Ed Ruscha’s workTrade Review“Ruscha has captured the zeitgeist of American culture for decades, and Jennifer Quick helps us understand that an essential part of his talent for representing the popular, the spectacular, and the alluring is connected to his lifelong fascination with design.”—David Brody, Parsons School of Design, The New School“Jennifer Quick’s approach is timely and compelling, given the high profile of design in contemporary culture, but it is her close reading of Ruscha’s complex play with materials and form that ultimately make this such a rewarding account of his art.”—Ken D. Allan, Seattle University
£38.00
Yale University Press Yale French Studies Number 139 Photography and
Book SynopsisThe first Yale French Studies issue on photography, examining French photography's place in art, identity, and society through a lens of diversity and interdisciplinary investigation
£52.25
Yale University Press Vincent van Gogh Matters of Identity
Book SynopsisThe revelation of a misidentified face in a photograph—once thought to be Vincent, now known to be Theo van Gogh—leads to a novelesque story of revised art historyTrade Review“Solves the mystery of Van Gogh’s lost harmonium portrait”—Martin Bailey, Art Newspaper
£23.75
Yale University Press Traitor Survivor Icon
Book SynopsisThe first major visual and cultural exploration of the legacy of La Malinche, simultaneously reviled as a traitor to her people and hailed as the mother of MexicoTrade ReviewAlfred H. Barr Jr. Award finalist, sponsored by CAA2023 PROSE Award Finalist in the Art Exhibitions categoryWinner of the 2023 Thoma Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award, sponsored by the The Association for Latin American Art
£38.00
Yale University Press Yorkshire The North Riding
Book SynopsisThe first complete revision of Pevsner’s original volume on the North Riding of Yorkshire, from the fells on the Westmorland border to the edges of YorkTrade Review“The appearance of this magnificent volume not only brings the revision of the Yorkshire coverage to completion, but almost the whole original series of Pevsner’s ‘Buildings of England’ as well.”—John Goodall, Country Life“A magisterial work of reference, a joy to browse and a handsome artefact in itself. Yale University Press deserve a medal for perpetuating the Pevsner project.”—Martin Vander Weyer, Oldie
£54.00
Yale University Press Lothian
Book SynopsisThe first full revision of the first of the volumes for the Buildings of Scotland seriesTrade Review“Superbly catalogued in the newly revised Lothian edition. . . . This guide highlights some stunning ecclesiastical architecture across the Lothians.”—Simon Heffer, The Telegraph“Sixty-five years and numerous authors later, the ‘Buildings of Scotland’ series has now been completed with this magisterial, 2-inch-thick 15th volume. . . . Extensive resurvey and research, and now with illustrations, plans and colour photography.”—Mary Miers, Country Life“Splendid illustrations. . . . McWilliam’s prose and scholarship have been respected, and this very handsome volume is a more than welcome addition.”—James Stevens Curl, The Critic“[A] joyous tome. . . . An unexpectedly indispensable guide.”—Richard Bath, Scottish Field
£40.50
Yale University Press Evelyn William De Morgan
Book SynopsisA lively and multi-faceted account of Evelyn and William De Morgan, exploring a unique artistic partnership that spanned several cultural circles including the Pre-Raphaelites and Arts and Crafts movementTrade Review“The dozen essays in this book detailing the lives and output of William De Morgan (1839-1917) and his wife, Evelyn, provide a fascinating record of the work of these two late-Victorian artists, both, in their different ways, anachronisms born out of time.”—Peyton Skipwith, Literary Review
£33.25
Yale University Press English Furniture 1680 1760 English Needlework
Book SynopsisBrings together a superb collection of over 650 detailed examples English furniture and needlework from 1600 to 1760
£190.00
Art Institute of Chicago Andre Kertesz
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive study of these rare, influential objects, documenting a formative moment in the noted photographer’s early career
£38.00
Yale University Press Social Fabrics
Book SynopsisExploring prize textiles known as tiraz, whose meaning and materiality illuminate the interwoven communities of the medieval Islamic world
£33.25
Yale University Press Always Reaching
Book SynopsisAn expansive collection of texts providing insight into the inner life, creativity, and practice of the innovative American artist Anne TruittTrade Review“Anne Truitt has been my lodestar throughout my life as a writer. To hear her voice once more in this exquisite selection of her personal writings is a gift beyond measure. Truitt’s searching intellect, wise heart, and disciplined attention to her own artistic sensitivities are profoundly instructive. This book will interest Truitt scholars and art historians, to be sure, but it really should be required reading for anyone embarking on a creative life.”—Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance“A precedent without peer and an archival treasure, Always Reaching presents the writing and thinking of someone deeply engaged in the art world of her time.”—Suzanne Hudson, University of Southern California
£28.50
Yale University Press The Elizabethan Image
Book SynopsisThe new paperback edition of Roy Strong's popular introduction to Elizabethan portraiture.Trade Review“Britain’s great Renaissance man – in the sense both that the Renaissance is his period, and that he can turn his hand to anything – appears as spring-chickenish as he is inexhaustible. His 43rd book, The Elizabethan Image, is published this month, and its sequel, The Stuart Image, is already being written – Hannah Betts, Telegraph“There is no better person to introduce this period afresh and to convey its richness and complexity, with the aid of the magnificent illustrations that run through this book” —Frances Spalding, Daily Mail (Book of the Week)“[A] lavish production [. . .] Strong has always had an instinctive feel for, and understanding of, the Elizabethan mindset and aesthetic. This book is no exception — and is particularly good on the ways in which the upwardly mobile used portraiture to signal their social ascent. Learned yet accessible, The Elizabethan Image provides a rich overview of the portraiture of the period which will appeal to fans of Strong's original publications as well as to a new generation of readers” — Elizabeth Goldring, Spectator “Engaging overview, in portraiture, of a rich period of English history.” —The Bookseller “Strong returns to his specialist subject in this sumptuously illustrated book” —Apollo Magazine (Off The Shelf)“An account rich in biographical detail”— Matthew Dennison, World of Interiors“When an academic with such a distinguished track record as Roy Strong's publishes a new work in the field to which he has already contributed so much, it is an important event –particularly when the publisher also has a history of producing sumptuously illustrated books. Indeed, the result is a book delightful both to read and to look at, in which text and image support one another in an ideal manner” —Paul Flux, Albion “Thorough, but never exhausting, this is an authoritative and comprehensive interpretation that provides a wealth of historical insight as well as artistic vision and presentation” — Henry Malt, The Artist “While many of Strong’s previous publications were beautiful artefacts, this one surpasses them all” — Helen Hackett, TLS“[Strong] returns to his first love, revealing that he has kept up with all the developments in modern scholarship. The result is a sumptuous, beautifully illustrated volume [. . .] A book to treasure” —A.N.Wilson, Spectator (Books Of The Year)“This beautiful book opens up to a wide audience a world of emblem and allegory, political manoeuvrings and religious conflict, serpents, sea monsters, and armillary spheres [. . .] In The Elizabethan Image Strong integrates a lifetime’s work with a synthesis of recent research by others, and the book will serve as an essential introduction to Elizabethan portraiture for many years to come”—Juliet Carey, Apollo MagazineCHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles, 2020
£27.08
Yale University Press Wild Visions Wilderness as Image and Idea
Book SynopsisA stunning combination of landscape photography and thematic essays exploring how the concept of wilderness has evolved over timeTrade Review“A thought-provoking and informative exploration of the idea of wilderness in the U.S. It is a pleasure to see so much smart photography, across multiple generations of production, gathered in one volume.”—Rebecca A. Senf, author of Making a Photographer: The Early Works of Ansel Adams“Wild Visions provides a sweeping yet succinct visual depiction of ‘the wild,’ and lays out a critical context for understanding the evolution of cultural meanings in that imagery.”—Curt Meine, author of Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work“Wild Visions is not simply a compilation of landscape photographs, but an argument for the power of imagery to enhance our evolving understanding of wilderness and its preservation, something peculiar to the identity and values of Americans.”—Laura McPhee, author and photographer, River of No Return“A welcome and thought-provoking reappraisal of the meaning of protecting ‘wilderness’ in American history and culture, pleasingly illustrated with nearly two centuries of photographs and writings.”—John Leshy, author of Our Common Ground“In essays, dialogues, and photographs, this eloquent book circles through historically shifting definitions of the word ‘wilderness.’ The authors draw on their lives in the American West and decades of analysis to challenge our perceptions.”—Anne Wilkes Tucker, author of The Woman’s Eye
£28.50
Yale University Press Nancy Elizabeth Prophet
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£33.25
Yale University Press Lucian Freud
Book SynopsisBrings together, for the first time, Lucian Freud's oil on copper paintings, including his lost portrait of Francis Bacon and two works that have never been reproduced before.
£28.50
Yale University Press Edward Ruscha
Book SynopsisThis third volume of the catalogue raisonné of Ed Ruscha’s works on paper documents more than 1,000 works created between 1998 and 2018
£142.50
Yale University Press Sonia Boyce
Book SynopsisThe first major publication to explore the work of Sonia Boyce, one of Britain’s most exciting contemporary artists, including her newest and most ambitious work to dateTrade Review"As a companion piece to this complex work, this book is invaluable... For those unable to see the work in Venice, it comes to the Turner Contemporary in Margate next year. This book is essential reading for anyone thinking of visiting."—Ben Murray, Art Quarterly
£23.75
Yale University Press A Dark A Light A Bright
Book SynopsisThe first major publication devoted to weaver and designer Dorothy Liebes, reinstating her as one of the most influential American designers of the twentieth centuryTrade Review“[Dorothy Liebes] has all the elements of a 20th-century design legend, but she isn’t a household name yet. This exhibition, and its handsome accompanying monograph, will surely change that.”—Sarah Archer, T List (newsletter, New York Times T Magazine)“Textile designer Dorothy Liebes emphasized tactility, luminousness, and contrast by combining natural and synthetic fibers in neon shades. . . . [This] book, with essays by seven experts and a comprehensive biographical timeline, accompanies a Liebes retrospective. . . . Ms. Liebes, although underappreciated now, practically blanketed the world with products while battling corporate misogyny. Factories adapted her handwoven samples for mass-market clothing and furnishings, and she lined mansions and offices with sumptuous one-offs.”—Eve M. Kahn, New York Times“Enclosed in a dark green, cloth-covered case binding with an electric lime-colored serif font and aqua-teal end papers (a nod to Liebes’s penchant for analogous colors), a generous selection of lush, full-page close-ups display her weavings in tremendous detail. . . . With thorough and caring scholarship and curation, A Dark, A Light, A Bright feels like a love letter to the path-forging designer.”—Julie Schneider, Hyperallergic
£38.00
Yale University Press Bamigboye
Book SynopsisThe first publication on the Yorùbá master sculptor Moshood Olúṣọmọ Bámigbóyè
£38.00
Yale University Press Tales of the City
Book SynopsisAn innovative examination of sixteenth-century Netherlandish drawing against the backdrop of the urban economic boom, the Protestant Reformation, and the Eighty Years’ War
£47.50
Yale University Press Murillo
Book SynopsisA revealing exploration of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s genre paintings and the cultural significance of his depictions of ordinary people
£42.75
Yale University Press No existe un mundo poshuracan
Book SynopsisA penetrating survey of contemporary art from Puerto Rico and the diaspora created since Hurricane Maria
£33.25
Yale University Press The Art of Walking
Book SynopsisA lively and thought-provoking tour of the intertwined histories of art and walkingTrade Review“Readers embark on a promenade – arranged chronologically, it’s a walk, rather than a waltz, through time. It is perfectly suited to flicking – literary flâneurism, if you will.” —Grace McCloud, World of Interiors“Deftly organized and superbly illustrated, The Art of Walking communicates its ideas and enthusiasms with infectious passion and in elegant prose.”—Matthew Beaumont, author of The Walker: On Finding and Losing Oneself in the Modern City“Daring, erudite, and thoughtful, The Art of Walking is an important book for anyone who loves not only to walk but to think about the role that walking plays across wildly different times and places in history.”—Lauren Elkin, author of Flâneuse: Women Walk the City
£23.75
Yale University Press Beauty Born of Struggle
Book SynopsisA collection of illustrated essays highlights the works of influential Black artists from Washington, DC, from the 1920s to the present
£52.25
Yale University Press St Jamess Palace
Book SynopsisThe first modern history of St James’s Palace, shedding light on a remarkable building at the heart of the history of the British monarchy that remains by far the least known of the royal residences Trade Review“Thurley and co chart this rollercoaster history with scholarship and flair, while Yale’s collaboration with the Royal Collections Trust means the inclusion of some delightful and unfamiliar illustrations. St James’s Palace, warns Thurley in his introduction, “is a mysterious and confusing place”. Not any more. With this book, the accidental palace takes its place with the best of them.”—Adrian Tinniswood, The Sunday Telegraph
£57.00
Yale University Press The Environment and Ecology in Islamic Art and
Book SynopsisA timely examination, through the dual lenses of culture and climate change, of the profound ecological awareness that has characterized Islamic visual traditions
£47.50
Yale University Press The Trees of the Cross
Book SynopsisA revelatory study exploring wood's many material, ecological, and symbolic meanings in the religious art of medieval GermanyTrade Review“In late medieval Germany, religious art was full of trees, vines, and other plants, symbolizing the strong ties between agrarian and spiritual life. Art historian Gregory C. Bryda surveys these botanically influenced masterpieces in his new book The Trees of the Cross, including works by some of the era’s great masters.”—Peter Saenger, Wall Street Journal“A rewarding study that is full of new insights.”—Jeremy Warren, Art Newspaper“Going deeper into history and daily life than scholarship on materiality and ecology ordinarily ventures, Bryda’s argument persuasively demonstrates that late medieval German art is invested with a rhythm of seasons, harvest, and bloom. Elegantly written and packed with new discoveries, this is a book to be imbibed, ingested, and oft consulted.”—Shira Brisman, University of Pennsylvania“The Trees of the Cross is a truly interdisciplinary study that will resonate beyond art history in the fields of ecology, ethnography, folklore studies, and both economic and agrarian history. Engagingly written, the book provides an important corrective to our broader understanding of the role of nature in late medieval German art.”—Achim Timmermann, University of Michigan
£57.00
Yale University Press William Burgess Great Bookcase and The Victorian
Book SynopsisInterweaving art, literature and chemistry, Charlotte Ribeyrol draws on rare archival material to explore the fascinating story of an extraordinary piece of furniture in the context of the Victorian “color revolution”
£38.00
Yale University Press Vanessa Bell
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£27.00
Yale University Press Experience Design
Book SynopsisAn engaging introduction to the cutting-edge discipline of experience design for students and practitioners in creative fields, including architecture, product design, gaming, exhibition design, and performance
£23.75
Yale University Press Sargent Claude Johnson
Book SynopsisA rich reappraisal of a key Black American modernist through a lens of cross-cultural engagement
£28.50
Yale University Press In Our Hands
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking exhibition catalogue of Native, First Nations, Metis, and Inuit photography from the nineteenth century to the present day
£28.50
Yale University Press Mickalene Thomas Portrait of an Unlikely Space
Book SynopsisA close look at a new installation by renowned contemporary artist Mickalene Thomas that marks the first time she has engaged with early American history
£33.25
