Search Results
WARNING
You are viewing an older version of the Yalebooks website. Please visit out new website with more updated information and a better user experience: https://www.yalebooks.com
Grand Design
Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry
Renowned throughout Renaissance Europe, Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502–1550) produced works for the wealthiest and most important patrons of the time, including Emperor Charles V, Francis I of France, Henry VIII of England,...
Cubism
The Leonard A. Lauder Collection
An innovative new history of Cubism told through some of the most significant artworks ever produced, drawn from a distinguished private collection This groundbreaking new history of Cubism, based on works...
Madame Cézanne
A new account of Cézanne’s complex relationship with his wife, who served as the subject of some of his most iconic portraits Paul Cézanne’s (1839–1906) portraits of Hortense Fiquet (1850–1922), his wife...
James Northcote, History Painting, and the Fables
The artistic accomplishments of James Northcote (1746–1831) have tended to be overshadowed by his role as a biographer of Joshua Reynolds, first president of the Royal Academy of Arts, with whom Northcote apprenticed for five...
Louis I. Kahn in Conversation
Interviews with John W. Cook and Heinrich Klotz, 1969–70
In 1969 and 1970, Louis I. Kahn (1901–1974)—one of America’s greatest 20th-century architects—participated in a series of interviews with a young German architectural historian, Heinrich Klotz, then a visiting professor at Yale...
Frank Browne
A Life through the Lens
Born in Cork, Ireland, Frank Browne (1880–1960) was both a distinguished Jesuit and an accomplished photographer. At age 17, before commencing his studies for the priesthood, he embarked on a tour of Europe armed with a camera....
Silent Partners
Artist and Mannequin from Function to Fetish
The articulated human figure made of wax or wood has been a common tool in artistic practice since the 16th century. Its mobile limbs enable the artist to study anatomical proportion, fix a pose at will, and perfect the depiction of...
Alexander Gardner
The Western Photographs, 1867–1868
A glimpse into the development of the American West through startling photographs of the frontier landscape and the rich culture of American Indian tribes Best known for his Civil War photographs,...
Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography
The David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art
The first publication of the outstanding Surrealist photography collection of David Raymond, whose eccentric taste suits the spirit of this radical art movement This handsomely illustrated volume is the...
Pop Departures
A survey of the decades-long legacy of American Pop Art, from the iconic works of the 1960s to contemporary art that innovatively revisits the movement’s key themes Pop Art’s influence continues to be felt...