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[2016] Yale 2016 Autumn & Winter : [Yale books : catalogue]
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Year: 2016 Publisher: London Yale University Press

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Kamakura : realism and spirituality in the sculpture of Japan
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ISBN: 9780300215779 Year: 2016 Publisher: New Haven, CT ; London Yale University Press

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"The Kamakura period (11851333) is considered a pinnacle of Japanese artistic expression, often described as a renaissance in Buddhist art. This catalogue is the first in over two decades to examine the exquisite sculpture of this period, artwork characterized by an intense corporeal presence, naturalistic proportions, a sense of movement, realistic drapery, and lifelike facial expressions animated by eyes made of inlaid crystal. The sculptures played an important role in the practice of Buddhism during these years, as the vivid representations facilitated an immediate communion between deity and worshipper. The custom of placing sacred relics, texts, and even miniature icons into the sculptures hollow interiors further enlivened the works and invested them with spiritual significance. Essays by noted scholars explore the sculptures arresting exteriors and powerful interiors, examining the technical and stylistic innovations that made them possible, and offering new context for their ritual and devotional uses. They demonstrate that the physical beauty and technical brilliance of Kamakura statues are profoundly associated with their spiritual dimension and devotional functions"--Publisher's website.


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Henry V : the conscience of a king
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ISBN: 9780300148732 0300148739 Year: 2016 Publisher: New Haven, CT ; London Yale University Press

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Lawrence of Arabia's war : the Arabs, the British and the remaking of the Middle East in WWI
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ISBN: 9780300226393 9780300196832 Year: 2016 Publisher: New Haven, CT ; London Yale University Press

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A wealth of new research and thinking on Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and World War One in the Middle East, providing essential background to today?s violent conflicts Rarely is a book published that revises our understanding of an entire world region and the history that has defined it. This groundbreaking volume makes just such a contribution. Neil Faulkner draws on ten years of field research to offer the first truly multidisciplinary history of the conflicts that raged in Sinai, Arabia, Palestine, and Syria during the First World War. In Lawrence of Arabia?s War, the author rewrites the history of T. E. Lawrence?s legendary military campaigns in the context of the Arab Revolt. He explores the intersections among the declining Ottoman Empire, the Bedouin tribes, nascent Arab nationalism, and Western imperial ambition. The book provides a new analysis of Ottoman resilience in the face of modern industrialized warfare, and it assesses the relative weight of conventional operations in Palestine and irregular warfare in Syria. Faulkner thus reassesses the historic roots of today?s divided, fractious, war-torn Middle East.


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Van Dyck, Rembrandt, and the portrait print
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ISBN: 9780300218824 0300218826 Year: 2016 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. The Art institute de Chicago


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Venice and drawing, 1500-1800 : theory, practice and collecting
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ISBN: 9780300187731 Year: 2016 Publisher: New Haven London Yale University Press

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The concrete body : Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci
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ISBN: 0300249802 9780300220438 030022043X 9780300249804 9780300217971 0300217978 Year: 2016 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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"...Examines the 1960s performance work of three New York artists who adapted modernist approaches to form for the medium of the human body. Finding parallels between the tactility of a drip of paint and a body's reflexive movements, Elise Archias argues convincingly that Yvonne Rainer (b. 1934), Carolee Schneemann (b. 1939), and Vito Acconci (b. 1940) forged a dialogue between modernist aesthetics and their own artistic community's embrace of all things ordinary through work that explored the abstraction born of the body's materiality. Rainer's task-like dances, Schneemann's sensuous appropriations of popular entertainment, and Acconci's behaviorist-inflected tests highlight the body's unintended movements as vital reminders of embodied struggle amid the constraining structures in contemporary culture. Archias also draws compelling comparisons between embodiment as performed in the work of these three artists and in the sit-ins and other nonviolent protests of the era"--Publisher's description.

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Young Mr Turner : the first forty years, 1775-1815
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ISBN: 9780300140651 Year: 2016 Publisher: New Haven, CT ; London Yale University Press

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Reformations : the early modern world, 1450-1650
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ISBN: 9780300111927 9780300240030 0300111924 Year: 2016 Publisher: New Haven, CT ; London Yale University Press

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This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day. Eire connects the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in new and profound ways, and he demonstrates convincingly that this crucial turning point in history not only affected people long gone, but continues to shape our world and define who we are today. The book focuses on the vast changes that took place in Western civilization between 1450 and 1650, from Gutenberg’s printing press and the subsequent revolution in the spread of ideas to the close of the Thirty Years’ War. Eire devotes equal attention to the various Protestant traditions and churches as well as to Catholicism, skepticism, and secularism, and he takes into account the expansion of European culture and religion into other lands, particularly the Americas and Asia. He also underscores how changes in religion transformed the Western secular world. A book created with students and nonspecialists in mind, Reformations is an inspiring, provocative volume for any reader who is curious about the role of ideas and beliefs in history.

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