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YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2011)
pvp.78,90 €
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This lavishly illustrated catalogue is a comprehensive historical review of Chinese ceramics covering newly excavated discoveries from the Paleolithic era thousands of years ago to the end of the Qing dynasty in 1911. Throughout China's ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2011)
pvp.47,67 €
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Dieter Roth's unique and eclectic Tischmatten ('Table Mats') incorporate drawings, paintings, photographs, and ephemeral materials. Roth placed these grey cardboard mats on tables in his apartment, studios, and houses, collecting what he referred to as ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2011)
pvp.32,50 €
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Favouring fantastical invention, biting wit, and distorted figuration, with roots in mid-20th-century pop culture, Jim Nutt creates wildly original work ranging from paintings on Plexiglas to phantasmagoric portraits of imaginary women. Nutt (b. 1938) first ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2011)
pvp.34,00 €
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In the Cuban town of Sagua la Grande, a young Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria peers out the window of his family home on the morning of the Nochebuena fiesta as preparations begin for the slaughter of ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2010)
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By 1400, the once-mighty Byzantine Empire stood on the verge of destruction. Most of its territories had been lost to the Ottoman Turks, and Constantinople was under close blockade. Against all odds, Byzantium lingered on ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2010)
pvp.65,75 €
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The technique of applying brilliant enamel ornament to metalwork, known as cloisonne, reached its peak in China from the fourteenth century on. This sumptuously illustrated survey, which accompanies an exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center, ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2010)
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In this pioneering study of the water infrastructure of Renaissance Rome, urban historian Katherine Rinne offers a new understanding of how technological and scientific developments in aqueduct and fountain architecture helped turn a medieval backwater ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2010)
pvp.61,29 €
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The potential of electric light as a new building 'material' was recognized in the 1920s and became a useful design tool by the mid-century. Skilful lighting allowed for theatricality, narrative, and a new emphasis on ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2010)
pvp.40,38 €
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Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created the first comprehensive, ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2010)
pvp.42,00 €
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This is a follow-up volume to "Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor", which was published to accompany the critically acclaimed exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum in October 2007. It features essays written by ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2010)
pvp.47,11 €
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The British architect James Frazer Stirling (1924-1992) stimulated impassioned responses among both supporters and detractors, and he continues to be the subject of fierce debate. He earned international renown through such innovative'and frequently controversial'projects as ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2010)
pvp.27,24 €
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For the past 65 years, the National Galleries of Scotland has displayed the acclaimed "Bridgewater Collection", one of the world's most important groups of Old Master paintings still under private ownership. Consisting largely of French ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2010)
pvp.59,17 €
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With its emphasis on social reform and simplicity in design - bold lines, honest use of materials, and redeeming qualities of handmade goods - the Arts and Crafts movement offered an antidote to the perceived ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2010)
pvp.56,00 €
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The Metropolitan Museum's collection of Chinese Buddhist and Daoist sculpture is the largest in the Western world. In this lavish, comprehensive volume, archaeological discoveries and scientific testing and analysis serve as the basis for a ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2010)
pvp.63,00 €
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In 1215, the year Khubilai Khan (1215-1294) was born, the Mongols made their first major incursion into North China and initiated a period of extraordinary creativity in the arts that was encouraged by the confluence ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2010)
pvp.63,00 €
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For centuries, China's Forbidden City has captured the world's imagination. Parts of the Forbidden City have been open to the public since 1925, and nearly 8 million tourists flock there annually. Yet the elegant, intimate ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2010)
pvp.60,00 €
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Considered the 'mother culture' of Mesoamerica, the Olmec developed an iconic and sophisticated artistic style as early as the second millennium B.C. This pre-Columbian civilization, which flourished in the Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco ...
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YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2010)
pvp.22,33 €
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What woman can resist imagining herself in a beautiful designer dress? Here, for the first time ever, are 100 fabulous gowns from the permanent collection of the renowned Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2010)
pvp.42,00 €
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Scholars have long acknowledged the significance of the Japanese 'fashion revolution' of the 1980s, when avant-garde designers Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons introduced a radically new conception of fashion. ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2010)
pvp.32,50 €
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Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity reveals the historical dynamics propelling two centuries of Ottoman and Turkish history. As mounting threats to imperial survival necessitated dynamic responses, ethnolinguistic and religious identities inspired alternative strategies for ...
