History of art Books
Yale University Press Bruegels Winter Scenes
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Yale University Press Frank Stella Unbound Literature and Printmaking
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£24.00
Yale University Press Art of China
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£42.75
Yale University Press Man Ray
Book SynopsisA biography of the elusive but celebrated Dada and Surrealist artist and photographer connecting his Jewish background to his life and artTrade Review“[Lubow] ingeniously captures one of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic artists.”—New Yorker“Graceful and compact...Lubow’s evocation of Man Ray is full of insights, often dramatic, and is heartfelt on the artist’s friendship with Duchamp.”—David D’Arcy, Art Newspaper“An exceptional gem is hereby added to the Jewish Lives crown. With charm and élan—and heroic erudition—Arthur Lubow captures the elusive, protean Man Ray.”—Benjamin Taylor, author of Proust: The Search
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Yale University Press The Art of Graphic Design
Book SynopsisA revered classic of American design delights anew with the freshness and ingenuity of its approach Bradbury Thompson (19111995) remains one of the most admired and influential graphic designers of the twentieth century, having trained a generation of design students while on the faculty of the Yale School of Art for more than thirty years. The art director of Mademoiselle and design director of Art News and Art News Annual in the decades after World War II, Thompson was also a distinguished designer of limited-edition books, postage stamps, rationalized alphabets, corporate identification programs, trademarks, and sacred works (most notably the Washburn College Bible). Thompson also designed more than sixty issues of Westvaco Inspirations, a magazine that was published by the Westvaco Corporation and distributed to thousands of printers, designers, and teachers to show the range and versatility of printing papers. Thompson was especially revered for his ability to adapt classic typography for the modern world. Bradbury Thompson: The Art of Graphic Design is a landmark in the history of fine bookmaking. First published by Yale University Press in 1988 and designed by Thompson himself, it was praised by the New York Times as a book in which art and design are gloriously and daringly mixed. Original texts by the author and other notable designers, critics, and art historians, including J. Carter Brown, Alvin Eisenman, and Steven Heller, explore Thompson's methods and design philosophy, and a newly commissioned afterword by Jessica Helfand attests to the enduring importance of his work. Both a retrospective and a manifesto, the book surveys Thompson's timeless contributions to American graphic design, including his experimental work and his work in magazines, typography, books, simplified alphabets, and contemporary postage stamps. Published for the first time in paperback, this classic text is now available for a new generation of designers and students.
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Yale University Press Lola 193lvarez Bravo Picturing Mexico
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Yale University Press Wright and New York The Making of Americas
Book SynopsisA dazzling dual portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright and early twentieth-century New York, revealing the city's role in establishing the career of America's most famous architectTraces the transitive relationship of the architect and the city, as well as the genesis of the bohemian culture of the East Village.Patti Smith, New York Times Frank Lloyd Wright (18671959) took his first major trip to New York in 1909, fleeing a failed marriage and artistic stagnation. He returned a decade later, his personal life and architectural career again in crisis. Booming 1920s New York served as a refuge, but it also challenged him and resurrected his career. The city connected Wright with important clients and commissions that would harness his creative energy and define his role in modern architecture, even as the stock market crash took its toll on his benefactors. Wright denounced New York as an unlivable prison even as he reveled in its culture. The city became an urban foil for Wright's work in tTrade Review“Anthony Alofsin’s Wright and New York traces the transitive relationship of the architect and the city, as well as the genesis of the bohemian culture of the East Village."—Patti Smith, New York Times“Revelatory.”—Norman Weinstein, Architectural Record“A painstaking research”—Luis Fernández-Galiano, Arquitectura VivaFinalist in the PROSE Awards Architecture and Urban Planning category, sponsored by the Association of American Publishers“Anthony Alofsin engagingly examines Frank Lloyd Wright’s previously unexplored relationship with New York City and the influence one had over the other. Illuminating an atmosphere of turbulent change and a burgeoning bohemian culture, this is the perfect book to read when navigating a city that seems, more than ever, a victim of heartless reconstruction.”—Patti Smith“A watershed investigation of Wright’s life in the 1920s, when he landed, adrift, in New York. The city proved antagonistic, irresistibly so, and transformed him. Alofsin’s erudition, compelling prose, and first-rate detective work will alter how you perceive both Wright and Manhattan.”—Judith Dupré, New York Times bestselling author of Skyscrapers"Alofsin chronicles the relationship between America’s greatest architect and its greatest city with the precision of a detective, the perspective of a historian, and the flair of a novelist."—Thomas Mellins, author of New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars
£26.12
Yale University Press With Pleasure
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[O]utstanding, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of art and its possibilities.”—Carter Ratcliff, Hyperallergic
£49.50
Yale University Press Savage Tales
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Taken together, the writings [in Savage Tales] form an episodic account of a complex persona under construction.”—Holland Cotter, New York Times Book Review“Goddard conveys Gauguin’s collage aesthetic and the brilliant symbiosis of word and image through beautiful reproductions of carefully selected album pages, and she demonstrates how this bricolage of motifs, and the process of appropriation, reiteration, fragmentation and repetition are aesthetic strategies shared by the artist’s visual and literary oeuvre.”—Mary Morton, The Art NewspaperCHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2020
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Yale University Press The Photographs of Ralston Crawford
Book SynopsisBest known for his modernist paintings and prints, the multitalented artist Ralston Crawford (19061978) maintained a deep and intensive interest in photography throughout his career, using the camera as a tool of both documentary and artistic expression. This exquisitely produced publication provides a fresh, comprehensive look at Crawford's photographs from 1938 through the mid-1970s, including both well-known works and previously unpublished images. Some of his photographic images served as the basis for paintings and prints, but many more were made for their own sake as photographs, capturing a wide variety of subjects, from pristine industrial forms to the vibrant street life and musical culture of New Orleans. This volume locates Crawford's photographic production in the context of his overall artistic career and within the creative currents of his time, enhancing our understanding of Crawford as an artist and serving as the best and most up-to-date study of his photographs. Distributed for The Hall Family Foundation in association with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of ArtExhibition Schedule:The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (10/26/1804/07/19)
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Yale University Press Nicholas Hilliard
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Elizabeth Goldring’s illustrated biography Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist, published to coincide with a major centenary exhibition, tells his story with all the flair of her last book, an examination of the flamboyant and (for his day) selfie-loving Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester” —Suzi Feay, Financial Times“Goldring’s engaging account of his life, character and artistic methods, supported by gorgeous illustrations and illuminating new archival discoveries, makes for a wonderful book, at once authoritative and full of pleasures.” —Helen Hackett, Literary Review“Before you book your tickets [to the National Portrait Gallery’s Hilliard retrospective], read Elizabeth Goldring’s sumptuous survey Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist. Goldring, whose previous book Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and the World of Elizabethan Art, considered portraiture and patronage, has a fine, incisive eye. This is a scholarly book … but full of insight and courtly intrigue. [. . .] Goldring gives the bones of Hilliard’s biography [. . .] and his turbulent times [. . .] but more than that she encourages you to really look. [. . .]The close-up photographs of jewels and lace are a revelation.” – Laura Freeman, The Times“Richly detailed and illuminating [. . .] If Hans Holbein fixed the appearance of Henry VIII’s court for the ages, it is Nicholas Hilliard who performed that service for Henry’s daughter, Elizabeth. His exquisite portrait miniatures captured not just her transition from youthful monarch to Virgin Queen to Gloriana but the constellation of her court. [. . .] for those sittings he would stare at the royal visage for hours from mere feet away. Perhaps no one else ever looked at her so intently. Goldring’s fascinating and beautifully produced book allows us to do something similar with the limner himself.” – Michael Prodger, The Sunday Times"Elizabeth Goldring's engrossing, thickly illustrated biography shows that it was a rags-to-riches-and-back-again story. [. . .] This superb book vividly conjures a costly dresser and spendthrift, terrible with money, litigious, and sometimes slippery with creditors [. . .] Patrons bailed him out more than once, and his penultimate year was spent in Ludgate jail for debt. What humiliation for one who painted everyone who counted."—Philippa Stockley, Evening Standard“A brilliant and definitive biography”—Jerry Brotton, Financial Times Weekend Magazine“Scholarly”—Laura Gascoigne, The Spectator“Superb”—Simon Wilson, RA Magazine“A fascinating and beautifully produced life of the Elizabethan miniaturist”—The Sunday Times (‘Best Recent Books’)An Apollo 'Off the Shelf' Selection (February 2019)An Arts Society 'Good Reads' Selection (Spring 2019)“A landmark scholarly biography . . . Goldring excavates the connections that let an Exeter goldsmith become an artist renowned at the courts of Europe. She has rescued a Renaissance in miniature”—Jonathan Jones, The Guardian“Nicholas Hilliard not only allows us to study the artist and his gifts. It pulses too with the vivid conviction we find in JH Plumb's study of Walpole or Claire Tomalin's of Pepys. [. . .] Everyday lives in the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages are vividly rendered here. Goldring sharpens our ability to look beyond the glossy-magazine analogs of court painting and decipher, as with TS Eliot's vignette of the poet Webster, the skull beneath the skin. She is good, too, at placing Protestant Hilliard and his family in the context of the religious wars that threatened Britain for nearly a century and ravaged Europe for more than two. [. . .] At times Goldring's book reads like an Elizabethan version of a John le Carre novel [. . .] In spite of informed and scrupulous scholarship, with the author ever distinguishing what is known from what may reasonably be inferred, the narrative is unputdownable” —Grey Gowrie, The Financial Times“Meticulous [. . .] lavishly illustrated [. . .] absorbing [. . .] a milestone in Hilliard studies” —James Hall, TLS“Elizabeth Goldring’s absorbing and well-researched historical biography of Hilliard surveys the personal and professional life of the artist, and examines the personalities behind his portraits.” —Olenka Horbatsch, British Museum Magazine“A fascinating and beautifully produced life of the Elizabethan miniaturist” —The Times (Best Books of the Year)“An outstanding archivally-based biography [. . .] this essential hardback study of Protestant England's first native-born artist, with a brilliant European reputation across the Catholic Renaissance courts (magnificently and fully illustrated in colour), acts as a profound reminder of the diplomatic power of great art” —Stephen Lloyd, Art Quarterly“The National Portrait Gallery's superb exhibition of Elizabethan miniatures closed last month but for those who missed it, Elizabeth Goldring's Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist is worth the cover price for its beautiful close-up photographs alone.” —William Moore, Evening Standard (Best summer holiday reads)“[A] rich and compelling new biography”—Mathew Lyons, History Today"Goldring has unearthed each and every fact known about Hilliard (surprisingly many) and woven them into a contextualised, informative and well paced text [. . .] a superior publication [. . .] timely and scholarly" —Mike von Joel, State“This is set to be the definitive study of Nicholas Hilliard. It includes a full biography and includes a wealth of illustrations, many of the images appearing in colour for the first time. New archival research adds to the authoritative nature of the text and the quality of production is everything you could wish for – a book like this can easily be let down in that department, but this shines”—Artbookreview.net“Crisp, elegant and engaging prose [. . .] A lavish abundance of full-colour illustrations [. . .] at last, the biography that the outstanding miniaturist truly deserves” —William Aslet, Country Life“Sumptuous [. . .] the first ever full investigation of [Hilliard's] life and art, illustrated with 250 beautiful colour images. [. . .] Elizabeth Goldring has tracked down a wealth of documentation and her eye for detail, deftness of touch and elegance of style perfectly matches the exquisite works of her fascinating subject.” —Roderick Conway Morris, The Lady“This gorgeous book is a beautifully written and thoroughly researched account of Hilliard’s life and work and illustrated throughout with many images appearing in colour for the first time” —Henry Malt, The Artist “[A] rich and compelling new biography”—Mathew Lyons, History Today Winner of the 2019 Apollo Book of the Year Award, sponsored by Apollo: The International Art MagazineShortlisted for the Richard Schlagman Art Book Award, sponsored by the Whitechapel GalleryShortlisted for the 2019 Best First Biography Prize, sponsored by Slightly Foxed MagazineShortlisted for the William M. B. Berger Prize for British Art History"This is a book I have long been waiting for, the first fully documented biography of Nicholas Hilliard setting him within the political, social and cultural worlds of his age. It will long remain the definitive work."—Roy Strong
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Yale University Press Whistler in Watercolor
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Including endnotes and a select bibliography, this beautifully illustrated catalogue provides a rare, comprehensive examination of these seldom seen works."—D. E. Gliem, Eckerd College
£28.50
Yale University Press For America Paintings from the National Academy
Book SynopsisTrade Review“For America hints at another kind of art history, one written by artists themselves in a dynamic, complex process of creative self-fashioning”— John P. Murphy, Burlington Magazine
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Yale University Press Cy Twombly Treatise on the Veil 1970
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Yale University Press Awaken A Tibetan Buddhist Journey Toward
Book SynopsisAn innovative and compelling presentation of world-class Tibetan Buddhist art, elucidating its esoteric themes through visual storytelling Encouraging personal engagement with Tibetan Buddhism, this dynamic book presents spectacular Himalayan art and explores the philosophical tenets encoded in its imagery. Taking as its theme the universally accessible experience of Awakening, the book's main text leads readers along an immersive journey of self-discovery, aided by a virtual guide, or lama, and traditional art meant to support meditative practice. Complementary essays examine Tibetan Buddhism's ritual tools, paintings, symbolic imagery, and artistic traditions. Beautiful color images of all artworks, including three by contemporary Nepalese-American artist Tsherin Sherpa, and selected important details enhance our understanding of their complex iconography. Distributed for the Virginia Museum of Fine ArtsExhibition Schedule:Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (04/27/1908/18/19)As
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Yale University Press The City Beneath
Book SynopsisTrade Review“The City Beneath . . . tells a rich story of another L.A., left behind in the sometimes hidden and coded “I was here” of hoboes, surfers, soldiers, gay outcasts and striking students -- graffiti that, like many of the people who made them, have often gone unseen by the rest of us.”—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times “The alternative history of L.A. you didn’t know you needed.”—PureWow“An important addition to graffiti studies and. . . a resource for those interested in graffiti for years to come. . . . The City Beneath is a beautiful book.”—John F. Lennon, Visual Inquiry2021 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award winner, sponsored by the Urban Communication Foundation“An astonishing book and a revelation, from first to last. I learned from every single page and from the sheer exuberance of Phillips’s long journey into these places, spaces, histories, and inscriptions.”—William Deverell, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West“Susan Phillips insightfully shows how the study of graffiti can provide evidence for the changing nature of the city itself.”—Rafael Schacter, author of The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti“Crack open the canon and make room at the top for The City Beneath. Deeply researched and consistently breathtaking, this book will change the way you see and understand Los Angeles.”—Josh Kun, author of The Autograph Book of L.A.“A fascinating investigation into graffiti as visual history, highlighting the inherent desire we have to leave our mark or message on a place.”—Roger Gastman, graffiti historian“Susan A. Phillips’s wonderfully researched book is truly unique in the study of graffiti. Not only has she examined the cultural origins of mark-making, but she also re-defines the geographical narrative, stealing the crown from New York and placing it on the head of the West Coast as the cultural epicenter of the birth of American graffiti.”—Aaron Rose, Beautiful Losers
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Yale University Press The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion
Book SynopsisThis dazzling volume records the artist's travels through the Lone Star State, a grand expedition for our time Renowned artist Mark Dion (b. 1961) has a deep passion for history and the natural world. His installations mine the materials of the past to level an institutional critique in the present. Evoking the grand expeditionary journals of the 19th century, this singular volume records Dion's latest work, produced through his crisscrossing of Texas and exploration of the Lone Star State. Dion retraces the travels of four artists and naturalistsJohn James Audubon, Sarah Ann Lillie Hardinge, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Charles Wrightwho journeyed to the region over a century ago. Dion's travel companions include preservationists, ranchers, botanists, a poet, a tarot card reader, and fellow artists who offer accompanying texts, while lavish illustrations feature the objects Dion made or collected during his travels alongside historical artworks and botanical specimens. The result is a s
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Yale University Press Yves Zurstrassen Free. 20092019 Agrarian Studies
Book SynopsisThe recent work of Belgian abstract artist Yves Zurstrassen is explored in depth in this handsome volume, designed in close collaboration with the artist himself The decade of work produced between 2010 and 2019 by Belgian abstract painter Yves Zurstrassen (b. 1956) is the focus of this beautifully designed and illustrated book. Although he originally studied graphic art, Zurstrassen was inspired by Abstract Expressionists such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning to pursue painting.The book's essays delve into the artist's process and offer a critical analysis of the work.Also included are a detailed biography and insightful, informal conversations with the artist.Featuring full-page illustrations of Zurstrassen's recent work, the book situates the artist both within abstract art and the broader context of contemporary painting. Distributed for MercatorfondsExhibition Schedule:Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (September 1December 31, 2019)
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Yale University Press Building the Caliphate
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A highly scholarly and perceptive book about a complicated, enigmatic dynasty: the Fatimids. The author explains the meaning of early Fatimid architecture in Tunisia and Egypt by probing their sectarian identity and bid for political legitimacy.”—D. Fairchild Ruggles, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign“This book offers a new reading of Fatimid architecture and urbanism, using texts, archaeology, and monuments to explore artistic creation—and destruction—against a backdrop of contested medieval religious identities and the negotiation of sectarian differences.”—Glaire Anderson, University of Edinburgh
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Yale University Press Transmissions
Book SynopsisAn aesthetic and social history of art and dance in mid-20th-century New York interpreted by contemporary artist Nick Mauss Over the past decade, Nick Mauss (b. 1980) has pursued a hybrid mode of working that melds the roles of curator, artist, and scholar. Following his highly acclaimed 2018 Whitney Museum of American Art exhibitionTransmissions, this volume elaborates on the artist's complex portrait of mid-century New York as seen through the prism of modernist ballet. By pairing installation views of the exhibition and photographs of its daily performances by Paula Court and Ken Okiishi with reproductions of artworks, ballet programs, and fashion magazines,Transmissionsanimates the vividly enmeshed social and artistic networks that shaped both modern art and modern ballet.Through his emphasis on the collaborations and intimacies between models, dancers, photographers, choreographers, painters, sculptors, filmmakers, publishers, critics, amateurs, and devotees, Mauss re-calibrates t
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Yale University Press Rachel Harrison Life Hack
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Yale University Press Arts Biggest Stage
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Yale University Press speechless different by design
Book SynopsisAn experiment in interactive design and a bold reimaging of the museum exhibition This catalogue pioneers a new approach to the art museum exhibition, using the power of design to explore how we experience the world through our varied senses. Six international design teams have collaborated with experts in neuroscience and cognitive, motor, and sensory issues to create site-specific, immersive, and participatory environmentsone of which isthe publication itself. These revolutionary interpretations across various media will foster research intended to push our understanding of sensory perception and encourage new ways of conceiving, installing, and experiencing exhibitions. Designed by Laurie Haycock Makela, a leader in experimentalgraphic design, the bookplayswith the multiple meanings of the word speechless,exploringthe evolution of the project, documentingthe installations, and offeringportraits of the creative individuals who defined this extraordinary undertaking. Topics range from
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Yale University Press The Illuminated World Chronicle
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the Karen Gould Prize in Art History, sponsored by Medieval Academy of America“A superb book. It convincingly challenges some of the fundamental elements of received wisdom regarding the art of the later Middle Ages, and particularly the art of the late medieval Germanic world.”—Stephen Perkinson, Bowdoin College
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Yale University Press The Private World of Surimono
Book SynopsisA detailed look at a genre that combines virtuoso printmaking techniques, sophisticated imagery, and engaging, playful poetryTrade Review“With detailed and erudite entries on 60 prints . . . the catalogue is beautifully produced, befitting the subject matter.”—John T. Carpenter, Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Yale University Press Drawing Is Everything
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Yale University Press Inventing Acadia Painting and Place in Louisiana
Book SynopsisA wide-rangingstudy of Louisiana landscape painting that places art from the region into a broader national and global context With its dense forests and swamps, Louisiana captured the imagination of writers and painters who viewed its landscape as a fascinating, untamed wilderness. Starting in the 1820s when French émigrés brought the Barbizon school to New Orleans, the state attracted artists from Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the greater United States who shared ideas and experimented with approaches to the enigmatic scenery. Although Louisiana was in many ways an artists' paradise, the land also bore the scars of colonialism and the forced migrations of slavery. Inventing Acadia explores this complex history, following the rise of Louisiana landscape art and situating it amid the cultural shifts of the 19th century. The authors engage not only with artworks but also with the issues that informed themrepresentations of race and industry, international trade, and climate
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Yale University Press Britain in the World Highlights from the Yale
Book SynopsisA captivating look into the highlights from the Yale Center for British Art
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Yale University Press When Home Wont Let You Stay
Book SynopsisInsightful and interdisciplinary, this book considers the movement of people around the world and how contemporary artists contribute to our understanding of it
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Yale University Press Becoming America
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewChosen as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2020
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Yale University Press Living Pictures
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Living Pictures is an original and challenging contribution to one of the most important eras of Western painting, exploring how Jan van Eyck and his colleagues shaped a new pictorial vision and a new world understanding.”—Victor Stoichita, author of The Self-Aware Image: An Insight into Early Modern Meta-Painting“Noa Turel's book generates a cluster of exciting new ideas. Providing original interpretations of canonical Early Netherlandish paintings, it promises to invigorate debates central to the field.”—Laura Weigert, author of French Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater
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Yale University Press Americas Impressionism
Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated account of the Impressionist experiment in the United Statesshowing how the French style was put to distinctly American use From the late 19th century to the Second World War, American painters adapted Impressionism to their own ends, shaping one of the most enduring, complex, and contradictory styles of art ever produced in the United States. This comprehensive book presents an original and nuanced history of the American engagement with the French style, one that was both richer and more ambivalent than mere imitation. Showcasing key works from public and private collections across the United States, this expansive catalogue contextualizes celebrated figures, such as Claude Monet (18401926) and William Merritt Chase (18491916), among their unduly overlookedand often femalecounterparts, such as Lilla Cabot Perry (18481933), Emma Richardson Cherry (18591954), and Evelyn McCormick (18621948). Essays from leading scholars of the movement expand upon the geograph
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Yale University Press Mondo Cane Agrarian Studies
Book SynopsisThe provocative and often comic Belgian art duo Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys present in book form their collaborative contribution to the 2019 Venice Biennale The Belgian artists Jos de Gruyter (b. 1965) and Harald Thys (b. 1966) have collaborated for more than two decades on artworks in a variety of media, including film, photography, drawing, painting, and sculpture; they are known for thought-provoking works, often imbued with an antic sense of humor. The pair was selected to represent Belgium at the 2019 Venice Biennale, and this book accompanies and documents their exhibit, also titledMondo Cane.The book is composed of a series of original, illustrated texts, written alternately in English, French, German, Dutch, and Italian.The texts are intended to evoke a variety of human conditions in an environment reminiscent of present-day Europe. Its title refers to a 1962 Italian film that documentedin a style intended to provoke Western audiencescultural practices from around the world
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Yale University Press S.M.A.K. Highlights for a Future The Collection
Book SynopsisA stunning tour through the renowned, wide-ranging collection of contemporary art at Ghent's Municipal Museum for Contemporary Art (S.M.A.K.) The Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (translated as the Municipal Museum ofContemporary Art and commonly abbreviated as S.M.A.K.), located in Ghent, Belgium, has quickly established a reputation forboth a superlative permanent collection andprovocative exhibitions since it opened to the public in 1999.The museum's collection focuses on international developments in art after 1945, includingworks by artists such asFrancis Alÿs, Francis Bacon,Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Luc Tuymans, and Bruce Nauman.S.M.A.K. Highlights for a Future showcases the full range and exceptional quality of the museum's holdings, illustrating some 200 artworks,fromwell-known masterpieces toless-familiar, recent acquisitions. Distributed for Mercatorfonds
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Yale University Press Alonso Berruguete
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive account in English of Renaissance Spain's preeminent sculptor Alonso Berruguete (c. 14881561) revolutionized the arts of Renaissance Spain with a dramatic style of sculpture that reflected the decade or more he had spent in Italy while young. Trained as a painter, he traveled to Italy around 1506, where he interacted with Michelangelo and other leading artists. In 1518, he returned to Spain and was appointed court painter to the new king, Charles I. Eventually, he made his way to Valladolid, where he shifted his focus to sculpture, opening a large workshop that produced breathtaking multistory altarpieces (retablos) decorated with sculptures in painted wood. This handsomely illustrated catalogue is the first in English to treat Berruguete's art and career comprehensively. It follows his career from his beginnings in Castile to his final years in Toledo, where he produced his last great work, the marble tomb of Cardinal Juan de Tavera. Enriching the chronolog
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Yale University Press Sanford Biggers Codeswitch
Book SynopsisWhat I want to do is code-switch. To have there be layers of history and politics, but also this heady, arty stuffinside jokes, black humorthat you might have to take a while to research if you want to really get it.Sanford Biggers Sanford Biggers (b. 1970) is a Harlem-based artist working in various media including painting, sculpture, video, and performance. He describes his practice as code-switchingmixing disparate elements to create layers of meaningto account for his wide-ranging interests. This catalogue focuses on a series of repurposed quilts (many madein the 19th century) that embodies this interest in mixture. Informed by the significance of quilts to the Underground Railroad, Biggers transforms the quilts into new works using materials such as paint, tar, glitter, and charcoal to add his own layers of codes, whether they be historical, political, or purely artistic. Insightful essays survey Biggers's career, his art in relation to music, and the history upon which the serie
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Yale University Press Proof Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet
Book SynopsisA glimpse inside the darkroomand into the strategies of renowned photographers This handsome volume offers an innovative perspective on the artistic processes of some of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. For decades before the advent of digital technology, the proof sheet or contact sheet was vital to the practice of photography. Photographers using roll film first saw positive images in the small-scale grid of the contact, which was marked for printing and served as a lasting reference. Because contact sheets typically remained out of view, they offer a privileged window into the working process. Photographers also recognized aesthetic potential in the proof sheet itself and occasionally presented the contact grid as a finished work of art. The lively but largely unexplored territory of the contact sheet is richly represented in the previously unpublished collection assembled by Mark Schwartz and Bettina Katz. As he charts this territory,Peter Galassi offers fres
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Yale University Press Berend Strik Deciphering the Artists Mind
Book SynopsisAn exploration of recent work by the award-winning Dutch visual artist Berend Strik Berend Strik (b. 1960) is an internationally acclaimed Dutch visual artist whose oeuvre ranges from two-dimensional works to sculpture and architecture. He is best known for his embroidered found objects, including photographs. Since 2012, Strik has focused on a series he calls Deciphering the Artist's Mind; Strik has photographed the studios of well-known modern and contemporary artists, such as Marcel Duchamp, Jackson Pollock, John Baldessari, and Martha Rosler, and then stitched colorful materials into enlarged prints of the photographic images. This book, designed by Irma Boom, documents this series. Texts by Marja Bloem, in collaboration with Strik, explore the artist's visits to the studios, including encounters and conversations with many living artists. The visual documentation of the works and the insightful accompanying texts serve to fully investigate the themes that underpin the series, incl
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Yale University Press Fabrice Samyn I Am
Book SynopsisThe first major monograph on the work of contemporary Belgian artist Fabrice Samyn Contemporary Belgian artist Fabrice Samyn (b. 1981) works in a wide variety of media, including painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and recently choreography. His art engages with history and the passage of time, raising important questions about representation, idolatry, iconoclasm, and ecology in our contemporary world. In the artist's own words, My work attempts to reveal time, or rather natural phenomena of time (erosion for example) as creative. One of his best-known series, Sinai (2010), features photographic images of the necks of Greek sculptures, cropped and lit in such a way that they become abstract landscapes. This book is the first to offer an in-depth exploration of the full scope of Samyn's oeuvre. Copiously illustrated, the book also includes penetrating essays by prominent European philosophers and art historians. Distributed for MercatorfondsExhibition Schedule:Gallerie Si
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Yale University Press Italian Paintings in the Norton Simon Museum
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Both in terms of their matter and their manner, the entries are absorbing.”—David Ekserdijan, Apollo
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Yale University Press Object Biographies Collaborative Approaches to
Book SynopsisA revealing look at ancient art in the Menil Collection that addresses the problem of objects lacking archaeological context This innovative anthology discusses a diversity of ancient Mediterranean objectsa Mesopotamian votive figure, a Egyptian relief from the New Kingdom, and a Greek Geometric fawn among themin the Menil Collection and three other US museums. It offers new models for understanding works from antiquity that lack archaeological context. Essays by 13 authors written with the layperson in mind employ a creative mixture of iconography, technical studies, and modern provenance research to gain insight into the meaning of the objects themselves and what they can teach us more broadly aboutarchaeology, art history, and collecting practices. They take on complex issues of cultural heritage, legality, and taste to bring to life works that are often consigned to either the imperial past or a conceptual limbo. Essays on related groups or single objects introduce fresh frameworks
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Yale University Press French Drawings from the Age of Claude Poussin
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Yale University Press No More Masterpieces Modern Art After Artaud
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking account of postwar American art traces the profound influence of Antonin ArtaudTrade Review“Offers a truly useful analysis that cuts a new path by accounting for the widespread influence of French poète maudit and dissident Surrealist Antonin Artaud.”—Natilee Harren, Critique d’ArtCHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2022“No More Masterpieces is impeccably researched, well written, and closely argued in the details. Bradnock forges new territory on Artaud’s direct influence on American art.”—Jenni Sorkin, University of California, Santa Barbara
£52.25
Yale University Press Bill Brandt Henry Moore
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[A] magnificent produce of quality publishing, printed and bound in the United States, with its superb large-size reproductions on heavy glossy paper, its attractive end papers, its sewn, not glued sections – a guarantee of durability for a hefty volume of that category – and its very informative accompanying text…Unreservedly recommended.”—Antoine Capet, Cercles“Well worth picking up…A real treat for nostalgia and history buffs”—Amy Davies, Amateur Photographer“[A] fascinating and beautifully illustrated book”—Roderick Conway Morris, The Lady“The book takes an unusual approach to the reproduction of photographic works, capturing the materiality of the print as a singular, three-dimensional object rather than a flattened image on the page.”—Norfolkchamber.co.uk“The sculptor Henry Moore and photographer Bill Brandt were not nearly so closely connected, nor any sort of couple at all. Nonetheless, as an exhibition and associated book Bill Brandt/Henry Moore bring out, they moved on parallel paths.”—Martin Gayford, SpectatorShortlisted for the 2020 Paris Photo – Aperture Foundation Photo Book Awards, sponsored by The Aperture Foundation
£45.00
Yale University Press Bard Graduate Center at 25 Decorative Arts Design
Book SynopsisA visual history of the first quarter century of Bard Graduate Center This handsome publication celebrates the first 25 years of the institution founded by Dr. Susan Weber in 1993. Located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Bard Graduate Center (BGC) has become the leading research center in the United States dedicated to the study of decorative arts, design history, and material culture. Its fully integrated academic and exhibition programs have pioneered the study of objects as a means to better understand the cultural history of the material world. This book, richly illustrated with installation views, exhibition objects, and archival photography, is enlivened by interviews with Susan Weber, Luke Syson, Arnold Lehman, and Kevin Stayton, as well as essays by scholars, curators, and collaborators who highlight the character and evolution of BGC's unique approach to the research and display of material culture over the past 25 years. Through an array of exhibitions, publications, res
£999.99
Yale University Press Signac and the Independants
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£38.00
Yale University Press Americans in Spain Painting and Travel 18201920
Book SynopsisA revealing exploration of Spain's significant impact on American painting in the 19th and early 20th century
£42.75
Yale University Press Greater American Camera
Book SynopsisAn engaging investigation of how the relationships between four U.S. photographers and Mexican artists forged new developments in modernismTrade Review“The overall argument is strengthened by the recurrence of certain themes and concerns. The place of indigenous cultures and the impact of modernity are evidently central to the discussion, but Bravo never forgets to flesh out the social and material conditions of the circulation and reception of people and images.”—Didier Aubert, IdeAsCharles Rufus Morey Book Award Finalist, sponsored by the College Art Association“A highly significant and timely study, exemplifying how the porosity of borders yields great benefits for both sides. Greater American Camera is driven by exceptional rigor of research and scholarship of the highest level.”—Leonard Folgarait, Vanderbilt University“Bravo offers timely insights into photography as an art form specifically suited to exchange and into an art world made greater through intercultural collaborations and dialogue.”—Lauren Kroiz, author of Cultivating Citizens: The Regional Work of Art in the New Deal Era
£49.50
