Yale University Press
High Style
67%
This lavishly illustrated volume is the first comprehensive publication on the Brooklyn Museum of…
The Metropolitan Museum's Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts
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The Metropolitan's holdings of late 17th and 18th-century French decorative arts, unrivaled outside…
Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth
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Two potent myths have traditionally defined our understanding of the artist Edvard Munch…
Decoded Messages: The Symbolic Language of Chinese Animal Painting
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During the Ming Dynasty numerous new animal themes were created to convey political and ethical…
Pierre Bonnard: The Late Still Lifes and Interiors
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Working in his villa in the south of France, Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) suffused his late canvases…
Foxbats Over Dimona: The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War
86%
Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez’s groundbreaking history of the Six-Day War in 1967 radically…
William Merritt Chase: Landscapes in Oil
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Admired for finding beauty in everyday surroundings, William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) brought an…
Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion
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Models & Muses explores fashion's reciprocal relationship to iconic beauties that represent the…
Artistic Luxury
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Faberge, Tiffany, Lalique — these great designers came together only once to display their goods in…
Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater
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Shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution, Soviet Jewish theatres became catalysts for modernist…
Sargent and the Sea
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As a young man the American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was passionate about the sea…
Isabel Toledo: Fashion from the Inside Out
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One of the most exciting fashion designers in the United States, Cuban-born Isabel Toledo has been…
Art in France, 1900-1940
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During the decades from 1900 to 1940, art in France developed in ways that were of paramount…
The Dress of the People
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Material things transformed the lives of ordinary English men and women between the restoration of…
Thomas Eakins
97%
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) is one of the most fascinating and important personalities in the history…
The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia
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Distinguished historian of the Soviet period Robert V. Daniels offers a penetrating survey of the…
Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence
86%
Tiepolo is a brilliant example of the specifically pictorial intelligence. This book is both a…
Peter the Great: A Biography
67%
Lindsey Hughes, author of the classic account of Russia during the reign of Peter the Great, here…
The Moscow Yiddish Theatre
55%
The Moscow Yiddish Theater (later called GOSET) was born in 1919 and almost immediately became one…
Catherine the Great
78%
Ivan IV, 'the Terrible' (1533-1584) is one of the key figures in Russian history, yet he has…