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What Clothes Reveal
The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America
Paintings of upper-class men and women tell an important part of the history of costumes, but surviving garments themselves reveal even more. Every crease, stitch, and stain in a piece of clothing supplies information...
The Jewelry and Metalwork of Marie Zimmermann
A pioneering study of one of the most remarkable makers of jewelry and metalwork in early-20th-century America A true eclectic in her personal life, her professional pursuits, and her creative expression...
A Quiet Revolution
The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America
A probing study of the veil's recent return—from one of the world's foremost authorities on Muslim women—that reaches surprising conclusions about contemporary Islam's place in the West today In Cairo in...
Roof Life
A celebrated art historian who has spent a lifetime looking at art writes about looking as a way of being in the world This is not a memoir. It does not take the form of a story. It is instead a kind of...
Yale French Studies, Number 121
Literature and History: Around "Suite Française" and "Les Bienveillantes"
Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française and Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes constitute the two most important literary publishing events in France in the new millennium. Both novels have enjoyed enormous...
Eye on a Century
Modern and Contemporary Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery
Eye on a Century celebrates a cornerstone of the Yale University Art Gallery's holdings: the Charles B. Benenson Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art. This major bequest includes works by a veritable pantheon of...
Caravaggio's Cardsharps
Trickery and Illusion
The Cardsharps, one of the paintings that launched Caravaggio's spectacular career in Rome, captured the turbulent social reality of the city in the 1590s. This early masterpiece not only documented one of the everyday...
Cuneiform Documents from Hellenistic Uruk
This volume completes publication of the cuneiform documents of the Hellenistic period in the Yale Babylonian Collection, begun by A. T. Clay in 1913. This long-awaited edition contains reproductions of 103 texts from the city...
Ireland and the Picturesque
Design, Landscape Painting, and Tourism, 1700–1840
That Ireland is picturesque is a well-worn cliché, but little is understood of how this perception was created, painted, and manipulated during the long 18th century. This book positions Ireland at the core of the picturesque's...
Magnificent Entertainments
Temporary Architecture for Georgian Festivals
A thoroughly original study of ephemeral architecture and design, Magnificent Entertainments examines the spectacular displays created for large-scale public and private celebrations in the Georgian period. The book focuses on a...