The Visual Activism of David King
Captivating design can be a powerful conduit for disseminating important messages to a wide audience, and in the…
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How to Design Beautiful Books – Alex Kirby on Book Design
Don’t judge a book by its cover—or should you? Which books do you navigate towards when entering a…
The Avant-garde and the New Typography
How did Jan Tschichold help to form the New Typography in the early twentieth century? Why were he…
Georg Jensen: Scandinavian Design for Living
A new book, Georg Jensen: Scandinavian Design for Living, accompanies an exhibition of the same name opening at…
Gardens of Court and Country – Celebrating Hampton Court Flower Show
To celebrate this Year’s Royal Horticultural Society Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, the Yale Books Blog is in…
Mapping the Medieval City – Jerusalem 1000-1400 at The Met
Medieval Jerusalem was a vibrant international centre, home to multiple cultures, faiths and languages. Jerusalem, 1000-1400: Every People…
Celebrating London Fashion Week: Isaac Mizrahi, an interview
‘I have been praised but also punished. And it’s because I didn’t necessarily see this as a labour…
Shakespeare – The Poet of Them All
April 2016 marks 400 years since the death of Shakespeare, one of the greatest and most renowned poets…
Art in the World: AAH2016
Look out for special #AAH2016 discounts on Yale art books via @YaleBooks twitter We’re excited by the focus…
Aubrey Beardsley, Oscar Wilde and Salome
Aubrey Beardsley, Oscar Wilde and Salome by Linda Gertner Zatlin, author of Aubrey Beardsley: A Catalogue Raisonné Artistic…
Bringing Modern Architecture to Oxford
By Elain Harwood, author of Space, Hope and Brutalism — It’s very easy to take England’s universities for…
Sculpture Victorious
The exhibition Sculpture Victorious: Art in the Age of Invention, 1837–1901, currently showing at the Yale Center for British…
Interaction of Color: Josef Albers at Somerset House
A new exhibition ‘Form through Colour: Josef Albers, Anni Albers and Gary Hume’ opened at Somerset House this month…
René Lalique: Enchanted by Glass
René Lalique: Enchanted by Glass is a major exhibition at The Corning Museum of Glass in New York…
The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew and the Counterculture
The British studio potter Michael Cardew (1901-1983) was a man of paradox, a modernist who disliked modernity, a…