The Bloomsbury Look by Wendy Hitchmough – 50 Years in 50 Books
Drawing on unpublished photographs and extensive new research, The Bloomsbury Look is the first in-depth analysis of how the Bloomsbury Group generated and broadcast its self-fashioned…
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Fashion at the Edge: Q&A with the author, Caroline Evans
In this short Q and A, Caroline Evans, the author of Fashion at the Edge: Spectacle, Modernity, and Deathliness (published May 2023) reflects on…
2022 Gift Guide: Art Books
This vibrant selection of art books make a great gift, for yourself or for the art lovers in your life!
Back in Fashion: Globalisation, Luxury & Fast Fashion
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all keep on reading over the coming…
The Age of Undress: Neoclassicism, Fashion & “Living Statues”
In this blog, art historian Amelia Rauser places women at the centre of the traditionally “stoic” and “masculine” neoclassical movement. Through the lens of…
Yale Art Books – Looking Forward to 2020
For 2020 we look forward to a new list of beautiful, insightful art books from Yale University Press and our gallery partners. As well…
A Jane Austen Christmas
The month of December sees festivities held across the globe, but in 1775 a family in Steventon, England were celebrating for an entirely different…
A “Pocket” History of Women’s Lives (1660-1900)
Pencils, a sketchbook, cake, thimbles, keys, money, snuff – women and girls carried a startling array of things in their capacious tie-on pockets throughout…
Gluck: Art and Identity by Amy de la Haye and Martin Pel – An Extract
Gluck: Art and Identity An extract about Gluck’s life Hannah Gluckstein (who called herself Gluck; 1895–1976) is one of our Remarkable Women of Yale…
London Fashion Week – in Books
To mark London Fashion Week 2016, from 19 – 23 February, the YaleBooks Blog is celebrating some favourite fashion books of the season. In…
World Ballet Day 2015
Yale Author Zoe Anderson introduces World Ballet Day 2015 ‘Ballet now crosses boundaries, in technology and in style’ World Ballet Day, held this year…
Fashion Underground: Introducing Susanne Bartsch
Susanne Bartsch has been the queen of New York City nightlife since the 1980s when she first became famous for spectacular parties, where a…
Hats Off to George Romney
Summer is the season for hats. Weddings, garden parties and ‘ladies’ day’ at races like Ascot and Goodwood all call for decadent hats. Milliners…
China: Through the Looking Glass – Catalogue to the Show
China: Through the Looking Glass opens this week at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The exhibition examines the influence of Chinese art…
Fashion Victims: Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette
The court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette in 18th-century France was, and still is, one of the most controversial in the country’s history. The…
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