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[meganwhalenturner]

While at Elliot Bay Books, my ears perked up at a casual mention of poetry by “some woman from ancient Sumer or Ur.”

Was it Enheduana???? Yes!

I’m still bummed I missed the exhibit on Enheduana at the Morgan Library.

So, even though I had *just* said that I wasn’t ever going to haul paper books around in my suitcase again, I bought this translation by Sophus Helle.

I’m so glad I did. It’s a great book. Great subject, great writing. I can’t comment on the accuracy of the translation, but the poetry is knockout and the essays are accessible and fascinating.

#enheduana #the worlds first author #Yale University Press #Sophus Helle #elliot bay books

[garadinervi]

Mónica Amor, Gego. Weaving the Space in Between, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2023

#graphic design #art #catalogue #catalog #book #cover #book cover #mónica amor #gego #gertrud goldschmidt #fundación gego #yale university press #2020s

[uwmspeccoll]

Wood Engraving Wednesday

PAUL NASH

British painter, war artist, designer, illustrator, and wood engraver Paul Nash (1889-1946) was influential in the development of modern English art and was a prominent member of the Society of Wood Engravers that was co-founded by his younger brother John Nash in 1920.

In the 1920s, he began to produce wood-engraved illustrations for works by noted English authors, including this collection of character studies, Cotswold Characters by English poet and playwright John Drinkwater (1882-1937), published in New Haven, Connecticut, by Yale University Press in 1921. These were Nash's first set of wood engravings to be published as book illustrations.

Besides publishing his first wood-engraved book illustrations, 1921 was a very significant year in Nash's short life. In that year, Nash's close friend, the artist and designer Claud Lovat Fraser, died; Nash displayed his textile designs at an exhibition at Heal's in London; and he began exhibiting a series of health issues related to war trauma that we would call PTSD today, which occasioned his move to Dymchurch in southeast England for his health, where he would produce an important series of seawall and seascape paintings.

Our copy of Cotswold Characters is another donation from the estate of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick.

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#Wood Engraving Wednesday #wood engravings #wood engravers #Paul Nash #Cotswold Characters #John Drinkwater #Yale University Press #Dennis Bayuzick

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For almost four decades Elain Harwood (*1958) has been researching and writing about British postwar architecture, greatly contributing to their protection and creating awareness of their quality. Her magnum opus „Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture 1945-1975“, published by Yale University Press in 2015, is a 700+ page tome in which she recounts the better and lesser-known currents of English postwar architecture. Although prominent figures like Peter & Alison Smithson, Denys Lasdun or Basil Spence naturally receive the space they deserve based on their importance Harwood sheds particular light on the unsung architects working in local authority offices, e.g. Rosemary Stjernsted, who designed a broad range of buildings and structures for their local areas of responsibility. 

Against the background of a generally bad reputation of postwar architecture and urbanism in Britain Harwood also discusses the conflicts within planning processes: flaws have often been associated with a dogmatic omnipotence infused with Corbusian thoughts, an assumption that is very much unsustainable as architects and planners operated in a complex context of underfunding, last-minute alterations and lack of materials. The often young architects responsible for the execution of these lackluster plans themselves regularly quarreled with their position within the system and the high hopes they initially had. Accordingly the circumstances for the realization of ambitious plans couldn’t have been worse.

The architectural quality of those buildings and plans still existing is nonetheless striking and ranges from sleek Scandinavian-influenced early postwar modernism to Brutalism and early High-Tech, an immense degree of breadth that leaves the reader indeed astonished.

In view of the incredible richness of the book’s information it is a publication to frequently return to in order to read about a certain time period rather than something to consume in one go, a circumstance that in no way diminishes the enjoyable reading experience.

#architecture #england #english architecture #architecture book #yale university press #book #monograph #brutalism

[expendablemudge]

This #MLKDay get yourself a first ever bio of JOHN LEWIS: In Search of the Beloved Community, a "Citty Upon a Hill" longed from since the time of Winthrop, via Yale University press

My 5* #BookReview:

#book review #book tumblr #book blog #yale university #john lewis #mlk day #Yale University press #raymond arsenault

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 183

Chris Ware

Daniel Raeburn

Yale University Press 2004

This slight monograph is an excellent look at Chris Ware and his work. With an introductory article on his influences and life, the book provides numerous stunning examples of Ware’s comic art, graphic design work, sketches, paintings, sculptures, product designs, even a lunchbox.

#bookshelf #illustrated book #library #collection #personal library #personal collection #books #book lover #bibliophile #booklr #chris ware #Daniel raeburn #Yale university press #graphic design

[gustaving]

By Loren Goodman

From Famous Americans

Yale Series of Younger Poets

Yale University Press, 2008

#poetry #lit #hwdr #loren goodman #frienship #Yale university press #Yale series of younger poets #famous Americans

[fashionbooksmilano]

Ceramiche dell’Iran

Il vasellame islamico della Collezione Sarikhani

Oliver Watson 

Contributi di Moujan Matin, Will Kwiatkowski

Einaudi, Torino 2022, pp. XVIII - 590, 23 x 28 cm., ISBN 978-88-06-25316-5

euro 95,00

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Le ceramiche prodotte in Iran appartengono a una delle tradizioni artistiche più importanti e influenti al mondo. La bellezza del materiale, la padronanza delle linee  e del colore, il raffinato design e la perfetta realizzazione sono tutti elementi che concorrono ad affermare una forma d’arte di altissimo livello

Grazie all’ampia selezione di oggetti provenienti da una delle piú rilevanti collezioni di arte iraniana, il volume presenta oltre mille anni di ceramiche smaltate prodotte in Iran in epoca islamica. Le circa 500 illustrazioni, corredate da schede tecniche e approfonditi commenti, contenute in queste pagine consentono di ammirare una collezione di tesori raramente visti, e di scoprire parallelamente la storia dell’illustre tradizione ceramica persiana. Oltre a tradurre le numerose iscrizioni presenti sugli oggetti, Oliver Watson fa il punto sulle nuove ricerche effettuate in siti fino ad oggi sconosciuti. Gli straordinari contributi dell’arte persiana vengono cosí collocati all’interno di un contesto storico piú ampio, dimostrandone efficacemente la complessa e suggestiva bellezza.

15/07/22

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[jewishbookworld]

Admi­ral Hyman Rick­over: Engi­neer of Power by Marc Wort­man

Admi­ral Hyman Rick­over: Engi­neer of Power by Marc Wort­man

Known as the “Father of the Nuclear Navy,” Admiral Hyman George Rickover (1899–1986) remains an almost mythical figure in the United States Navy. A brilliant engineer with a ferocious will and combative personality, he oversaw the invention of the world’s first practical nuclear power reactor. As important as the transition from sail to steam, his development of nuclear-propelled submarines and…

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#Hyman Rick­over #Jewish Book Council #Marc Wort­man #Yale University Press

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Opinion: What Canada can learn from Britain, where there’s boom amid the gloom

Open this photo in gallery: Piper Norman Fiddes attends the opening of The European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre located in Aberdeen Bay on Sept. 7, 2018 in Aberdeen, Scotland.Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images John Rapley is an author and academic who divides his time among London, Johannesburg and Ottawa. His books include Why Empires Fall (Yale University Press, 2023) and Twilight of the Money…

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#BRITAIN #Canada #cleantech #country #economy #Energy #INVESTMENT #KPMG #north sea #United States #Yale University Press

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Play that explores queer history wins Yale Drama Series Prize

Play that explores queer history wins Yale Drama Series Prize Along with $10,000 and publication of their play by Yale University Press, the winner and short-listed playwrights will be celebrated at a residency in Tuscany.

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#Arts and Humanities #Drama #Entertainment #LGBTQ #Play #Queer History #Yale University Press

[alessandroiiidimacedonia]

Out soon reprint: "Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend" by Richard Stoneman

Out soon reprint: “Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend” by Richard Stoneman

Good day everyone, thanks to be here on Alessandro III di Macedonia- blog about Alexander the Great & Hellenism, I’m Elena. Richard Stoneman doesn’t need introduction but there was a need for a reprint of one of his books because it had become difficult to find and so: Alexander the Great. A Life in Legend by Richard Stoneman Imprint: Yale University Press In his brief life, Alexander the…

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#Prossime uscite #Richard Stoneman #Yale University Press

[garadinervi]

Cindy Juyoung Ok, Ward Toward, Foreword by Rae Armantrout, Yale Series of Younger Poets, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2024

Cover Art: Etel Adnan, Untitled, (oil on canvas), 2017 [Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris. © Etel Adnan]

#graphic design #art #poetry #mixed media #book #cover #book cover #cindy juyoung ok #rae armantrout #etel adnan #galerie lelong & co. #yale university press #2010s #2020s

[uwmspeccoll]

it’s Fine Press Friday!

This week we present  another title illustrated by American artist and illustrator, Lynd Ward (1905-1985): Idylls of the King, by English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), with introduction by Henry Van Dyke, and published in 1952 by the Limited Editions Club, in an edition of 1500 copies signed by the artist. Idylls of the King was first published as a cycle of twelve narrative poems, between 1859 and 1885. 

Lynd Ward made over forty individual lithograph illustrations for this fine press edition. The illustrations have at least three colors each, Ward drew directly on the printing matrix, an incredible amount of work. This direct process is sometimes called autolithography. The term, autolithography aims to differentiate the direct process of an artist drawing on the printing matrix, a stone or plate, from lithographs that are made by transferring an image to the stone by other means.  The lithographic plates were printed at the Duenewald Printing Corporation. The typographic layout was designed by Carl Purington Rollins in Bakersville types. Goudy Text was used for headers and the title. The type was printed at the Printing-Office of the Yale University Press in New Haven, where Rollins had been master printer from 1920 to 1948. It is quarter-bound in vermilion sheepskin and English buckram cloth. The cover is stamped in gold with a design by Lynd Ward.  This book is a gift of Loryn Romadka, from the collection of Austin Fredric Lutter. 

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– Teddy, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#Fine Press Friday #Lynd Ward #Limited Editions Club #color lithographs #Lithography #Autolithography #Idylls of the king #Alfred lord tennyson #Carl Purington Rollins #Yale University Press #Duenewald Printing Corporation #Printmaking #Fine press books #book illustration #LEC #Bakersville #Goudy Text #Fine Press Fridays #Austin Fredric Lutter #teddy

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At the 1939 World’s Fair Alvar Aalto’s Finland Pavilion was one of the most widely received buildings and marked the architect’s breakthrough in the United States. In the the decades following the World’s Fair Aalto would design two additional buildings as well as two interiors that made him frequently return to the US. But Aalto’s relationship with and admiration for the US started way before 1939: Finnish emigration in general and Eliel Saarinen’s 1923 emigration in particular sparked Aalto’s interest in the new world and its architecture, an interest that ultimately resulted in close contacts with architects like William Wurster and Frank Lloyd Wright whom he became friends with on his second US trip in 1939. One year earlier Aalto’s solo exhibition at the MoMA had already put him on the map of progressive influencers who were impressed with Aalto’s „other“ modernism. That these are only some of the many contact points between Aalto and America demonstrates the present publication: „Aalto and America“, edited by Stanford Anderson, Gail Fenske and David Fixler and published by @yalebooks in 2012: along three main sections and sixteen individual essays the book’s contributors provide a detailed analysis of Aalto’s relationship with the United States. After a thorough introduction to the architect’s idea of modernism as technological rationalism and organicism the following essays, among other topics, elucidate how the American prefab industry inspired postwar Finland to produce standardized and prefabricated wooden houses that helped support the starving economy. Conversely, Gail Fenske examines Aalto’s influence on Bay Region architecture as practiced by e.g. William Wurster with whom he shared the notion of a site-specific but decidedly modern architecture. The final part of the book is then fully dedicated to Aalto’s realized US projects, presented in a rich array of drawings, plans and photographs. Special importance is assigned to his Baker House and the revolutionary impact of its facade for which Aalto selected what many perceived as very low-quality bricks.

„Aalto and America“ is a highly readable and thought-provoking book at contains a wealth of little-known aspects of Aalto’s long-term and mutually influential relationship with the United States and its architectural community. A must-read book on Aalto!

#alvar aalto #american architecture #architecture book #architecture #usa #book #monograph #yale university press

[expendablemudge]

In honor of what would have been his birthday, get yourself a copy of the 1st ever bio of JOHN LEWIS: In Search of the Beloved Community, a "Citty Upon a Hill" longed from since the time of Winthrop, out today via Yale University press

My 5* #BookReview:

#book review #book tumblr #book blog #john lewis #civil rights #yale university press #black history month