Yale University Press Bücher

The first major publication to explore the prolific career of Kaffe Fassett, one of the most recognized names in contemporary craft and design

A novel look at the relationship between Impressionist painting and photography and the forging of a national identity in France between 1850 and 1880. Between 1850 and 1880, Impressionist landscape painting and early forms of photography flourished within the arts in France. In the context of massive social and political change that also marked this era, painters and photographers composed competing visions of France as modern and industrialized or as rural and anti-modern. Impressionist France explores the resonances between landscape art and national identity as reflected in the paintings and photographs made during this period, examining and illustrating in particular the works of key artists such as Édouard Baldus, Gustave Le Gray, the Bisson Frères, Édouard Manet, Jean-François Millet, Claude Monet, Charles Nègre, and Camille Pissarro. This ambitious premise focuses on the whole of France, exploring the relationship between landscape art and the notion of French nationhood across the country’s varied and spectacular landscapes in seven geographical sections and four scholarly essays, which provide new information regarding the production and impact of French Impressionism.

Evocative poems and prose fragments about home, selected by one of the most celebrated poets of our time

Through images and texts both historical and contemporary, this book looks at the Great Migration and its profound and ongoing impact

An introduction to the design, production and use of luxury embroideries in medieval England (c. 1200-1530).

An examination of the innovative portrayals of industry and leisure created by five avant-garde artists working at Asnieres in the late nineteenth century

Josef Albers (1888–1976) and Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), artists and teachers at the Bauhaus, were exiled from Germany when the school was forced to close in the early 1930s. The 46 letters in this volume document the intimate exchange between these two friends in a period when the world was coming apart. Despite the tumult, each wrote to the other of his continuous creative evolution, while also providing rich impressions of his new world. For Kandinsky, this was Paris where he navigated a new avant-garde scene. For Albers, it was the United States where he and his wife Anni began teaching at the recently founded Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Kandinsky’s and Albers’s correspondence reveals their warmth and humor, their strength in coping with unexpected circumstances, and above all their conviction in the resilience and power of art. Archival photographs, artwork, and ephemera accompany the collection, which brings together the artists’ full extant correspondence for the first time in English and German. Distributed for the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation

Hat ein Sohn mehr Einblick in das Werk seines Vaters als Außenstehende? Diese Frage steht im Mittelpunkt des Buches von Christopher Rothko über die Kunst seines Vaters. Rothko, der 1970 durch Freitod starb, hinterließ einen Sohn, der damals erst sechs Jahre alt war. Das Buch ist eine Suche nach dem verlorenen Vater und gleichzeitig eine tiefgehende Auseinandersetzung mit dessen Werk. Der Autor nutzt das reiche Familienarchiv und den Briefwechsel mit Freunden, um ein vielschichtiges Bild zu zeichnen. Zudem beleuchtet er die oft unbekannten Vorstudien zu Rothkos großen Gemälden. Es entsteht eine Kombination aus persönlicher Liebeserklärung und wissenschaftlicher Analyse, durchzogen von Erinnerungen an einen Vater, der schon zu Lebzeiten nur halb präsent war. Rothkos Werk entfaltet sich durch langsame, konzentrierte Betrachtung und Meditation. Die klugen Erklärungen des Autors bieten neue Perspektiven auf diesen Jahrhundertkünstler, dessen Schöpfungen viele anziehen, während sein Leben und Wesen oft rätselhaft bleiben. Christopher Rothko eröffnet neue Denk- und Sehwege zu einem Künstler, der auch sein Vater war. Das Buch erscheint zur großen Mark-Rothko-Retrospektive im Kunsthistorischen Museum, Wien.

A presentation of key findings and insights from over two decades of research, education, and community engagement in the acclaimed Baltimore Ecosystem Study. In a world of over seven billion people-who mostly reside in cities and their suburbs and exurbs-the Baltimore Ecosystem Study is recognized as a pioneering program for modern urban social-ecological science, critical to the emerging theory of urban ecology. After two decades of research, education, and community engagement in this complex system, there are insights to share, generalizations to examine, and gaps to highlight. This timely volume synthesizes the key empirical findings, melds the perspectives of different disciplines, and celebrates the accomplishments of interacting with diverse communities and institutions in improving the understanding of Baltimore's ecology. These widely applicable insights from Baltimore contribute to our understanding the ecology of other cities, provide a comparison for the global process of urbanization, and inform establishment of urban ecological research elsewhere. Comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and highly original, it gives voice to the wide array of specialists who have contributed to this living urban laboratory.

Neuroscientist David J. Linden approached leading brain researchers and asked each the same question: What idea about brain function would you most like to explain to the world? Their responses make up this ... collection of popular science essays that seeks to expand our knowledge of the human mind and its possibilities--Amazon.com.