Author: Arthur C. Danto
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: america, icons, warhol, andy
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-10-20
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0300135556
ISBN-13: 9780300135558

In a work of great wisdom and insight, art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto delivers a compact, masterful tour of Andy Warhol’s personal, artistic, and philosophical transformations. Danto traces the evolution of the pop artist, including his early reception, relationships with artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and the Factory phenomenon. He offers close readings of individual Warhol works, including their social context and philosophical dimensions, key differences with predecessors such as Marcel Duchamp, and parallels with successors like Jeff Koons. Danto brings

Authors:Tarnya Cooper, Stanley Wells, James Shapiro, Marcia P
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: shakespeare, searching
Number of Pages: 239
Published: 2006-04-28
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 030011611X
ISBN-13: 9780300116113

In 1856 the newly founded National Portrait Gallery in London was presented with a compelling painting of Shakespeare known as the “Chandos” portrait. Yet, 150 years later, few scholars agree that a true contemporary portrait of the most famous playwright in the history of English literature actually exists. Using the questionable authenticity of this portrait as its starting point, this unique and fascinating book examines the connections between theatrical performance and Shakespeare’s references in the visual arts. Featuring numerous portraits and images of costumes, theater models,

Author: Michael Alexander
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: england, modern, ages, middle, medievalism
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-06-14
List price: $47.00
ISBN-10: 0300110618
ISBN-13: 9780300110616

The style of the medieval period, which flows through the bloodstream of western culture, was vigorously re-established in post-Enlightenment England. This one-volume history of the Medieval Revival is the first coherent account of it, especially those aspects that are expressed and reflected in literature. The book focuses on the period 1760 to 1971, with an Epilogue on the reverberations of medievalism in the present day.The rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster, after its destruction by fire in 1834, re-established Gothic as the national style. But medieval imitation manifests itself wher

Author: Dr. Sheldon Watts
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: imperialism, power, disease, history, epidemics
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1999-11-10
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0300080875
ISBN-13: 9780300080872

This book is a major and wide-ranging study of the great epidemic scourges of humanity-plague, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, cholera, and yellow fever/malaria-over the last six centuries. This book will become the standard account of the way diseases-arising through chance, through reckless environmental change engineered by man, or through a combination of each-were interpreted in Western Europe and in the colonized world.

Authors:Noble S. Proctor, Mr. Patrick J. Lynch,
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: function, structure, avian, ornithology, manual
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1998-10-11
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0300076193
ISBN-13: 9780300076196

This book-a visual guide to the structure and anatomy of birds-is one of the most heavily illustrated ornithology references ever written. A concise atlas of avian anatomy, it contains more than 200 specially prepared, accurate, and clear drawings that include material never illustrated before. The text is as informative as the drawings; written at a level appropriate to undergraduate students and to bird lovers in general, it explains why birds look and act the way they do.

Author: Mr. George Steiner
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: tragedy, death
Number of Pages: 382
Published: 1996-10-30
List price: $37.00
ISBN-10: 0300069162
ISBN-13: 9780300069167

""This book is important--and portentous--for if it is true that tragedy is dead, we face a vital cultural loss. . . . The book is bound to start controversy. . . . The very passion and insight with which he writes about the tragedies that have moved him prove that the vision still lives and that words can still enlighten and reveal.""-R.B. Sewall, New York Times Book Review

Author: Plato
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: meno, gorgias, menexenus, crito, apology, plato, volume, euthyphro, dialogues
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1989-09-10
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0300044887
ISBN-13: 9780300044881