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Japanese mingei and the history of American studio ceramics
Posted on December 7, 2015American Studio Ceramics: Innovation and Identity, 1940 to 1979, which is out this week, is the first book to fully explore the ceramic movement alongside the societal trends that shaped it and the […] -
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Uncovering Middle Kingdom Egypt with Adela Oppenheim
Posted on December 3, 2015With thanks to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, here’s an interview between Rachel High, Publishing and Marketing Assistant in the Editorial Department at the Museum, and Adela Oppenheim, Curator in the […] -
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Lowlands Travelogue: The Hague
Posted on November 13, 2015In the brand-new book Dutch Art and Urban Cultures, 1200-1700, author Elisabeth de Bièvre explains how distinct geographical circumstances and histories shaped unique urban developments in different locations in the Netherlands and, in […] -
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Art + Science: Eadweard Muybridge’s photographic motion studies
Posted on October 28, 2015Sarah Gordon– In 1878, photographer Eadweard Muybridge stunned audiences in the United States and abroad when he quickened the shutter of his camera to freeze the motion of a trotting […] -
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Bringing Modern Architecture to Oxford
Posted on September 28, 2015Elain Harwood— It’s very easy to take England’s universities for granted, to think that just because Oxford and Cambridge are ancient the others must be too. In fact, most of […] -
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American landscape painting, from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic
Posted on August 5, 2015Peter John Brownlee– Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic culminates nearly five years of collaboration and cross-cultural exchange. Featuring essays by 48 scholars from […] -
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Between Realism and Impressionism: On Gustave Caillebotte by Marnin Young
Posted on July 21, 2015Gustave Caillebotte has always occupied a divided place in the history of art. Although he exhibited almost exclusively at the Impressionist exhibits in the late 1870s and early 1880s, he […] -
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Memory and Photography: TR Ericsson’s Crackle & Drag
Posted on July 10, 2015 Barbara Tannenbaum, Curator of Photography at the Cleveland Museum of Art, has written a smart, warm, and moving guest post for us about her experience with the work of […] -
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Art + Science: Michelle Foa on Georges Seurat
Posted on June 2, 2015Today we are excited to introduce you to a new series on our our Yale University Press Art & Architecture blog: Art + Science. Posts featured here will occupy that […] -
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Tiger stripes in ink and gold
Posted on March 23, 2015Felice Fischer – As curator of the exhibition, Ink and Gold: Art of the Kano, on view now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, I often am asked, “which painting […]