Griselda Pollock explores the life and work of artist Charlotte Salomon
‘She found herself facing the question of whether to commit suicide or to undertake something wildly crazy.’ –…
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Nazi Germany and Modernist art
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How to Design Beautiful Books – Alex Kirby on Book Design
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Our year in books: Highlights from 2018
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The Royal Academy of Arts: History and Collections – by Robin Simon
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Lee Lozano: Not Working – an interview with Jo Applin
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International Women’s Day: The Remarkable Women of Yale Books
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Bookshop of the Month – Janette Ray, York
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Small Churches by Big Names – Alan Brooks explores Oxfordshire in a new Pevsner Guide
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Gardens of Court and Country – Celebrating Hampton Court Flower Show
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Enlightened Princesses: How they Shaped the Modern World
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A Day at Home in Early Modern England Author Q&A – by Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson
A Day at Home in Early Modern England is co-authored by art historian Tara Hamling and literary scholar…
Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900
During the second half of the nineteenth century, a remarkable number and variety of women artists were drawn…
Gluck: Art and Identity
A notable highlight of the autumn-winter 2017 exhibition calendar is Gluck: Art and Identity at Brighton Museum and…
Eleri Lynn Lifts the Lid on Tudor Fashion
We spoke to Eleri Lynn, fashion historian and curator responsible for the dress collection at Historic Royal Palaces,…
Lynda Nead explores post-war Britain, 1950s culture & The Tiger in the Smoke
To coincide with the launch of The Tiger in the Smoke by Lynda Nead – her third publication for…
Celebrating a new Pevsner guide: Ruth Harman asks, West Riding South – Where Are The Women?
An eagerly anticipated and newly updated Pevsner county guide to Yorkshire West Riding is published this autumn, written…
Bookshop of the Month – Janette Ray, York
For September’s Bookshop of the Month, we chose Janette Ray in the lovely historic city of York. Janette…
Inspired by the work of Renaissance artist Raphael, author Lorraine Karafel asks ‘Why Tapestries?’
A new book Raphael’s Tapestries: The Grotesques of Leo X reconstructs the spectacular, grand-scale textiles designed in about…
Small Churches by Big Names – Alan Brooks explores Oxfordshire in a new Pevsner Guide
Splitting the original (and bulky) Buildings of England: Oxfordshire (Jennifer Sherwood and Nikolaus Pevsner, 1974), into two revised…
Margarita Tupitsyn discusses Moscow Vanguard Art
2017 is the centenary of the Russian Revolution, yet five years later, after the Soviet Regime was established,…
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…
Enlightened Princesses: How they Shaped the Modern World
Joanna Marschner introduces her new book Enlightened Princesses, which accompanies a landmark exhibition showcasing the valuable and important…
Magda Cordell, the Lost Brutalist
The Art of Brutalism is an engaging and expansive look at the Brutalist art produced in Britain between 1952…
The Art of Brutalism: The Style of No Style
To celebrate the release of The Art of Brutalism (with the Paul Mellon Centre) – a fascinating inquiry…