Books published by Yale University Press

A fascinating journey into Pierre Bonnard’s world and the inspiration behind his spatially arresting and intimate paintings

A lush and in-depth celebration of the clocks of David Rittenhouse, one of eighteenth-century America's greatest scientists and engineers

A dynamic look at the vast creative production of contemporary women artists from around the globe

An expansive look at ancient art and architecture over four centuries highlighting the diversity of makers and viewers within and beyond Rome's ever-changing political boundaries

A groundbreaking account of ancient Greek funerary sculpture and its emotional effects

Yale French Studies 142 explores the contemporary relevance of an alternative strand of feminism as theorized by Monique Wittig

The second installment of Thomas Dozeman's authoritative two-volume commentary on the book of Joshua

The first book-length study of Horace Walpole's scandalous The Mysterious Mother, including critical essays, an abridged script, and a facsimile edition

A second volume of the collected correspondence of the great African-American reformer and abolitionist features correspondence written during the Civil War years

Volume 7 of the Posen Library captures unprecedented transformations of Jewish culture amid mass migration, global capitalism, nationalism, revolution, and the birth of the secular self

Focusing on Christianity's core practices, a leading theologian imagines Christianity as a way of life oriented toward wisdom

The newly revised Pevsner guide to the buildings of Oxford and South-East Oxfordshire

An innovative examination of encounters between humans and lions and representations of these charismatic animals in the visual culture of postrevolutionary France

A technical examination of artists' workshops and studios across history and media, told through the collections of the National Gallery of Art

An innovative translation and commentary on the book of Jonah by a trio of award-winning scholars

Griselda Pollock reintroduces an important feminist forerunner in this new, full-colour setting of Helen Rosenau’s 1944 book Woman in Art

A major new history of architecture in Britain and Ireland that looks at buildings and their construction in detail while revealing the cultural, material, political, and economic contexts that made them

Introducing the life and work of one of the most dazzlingly virtuoso painters in Western art to a new generation

Reveals how American art in the 1930s—intertwined with the political, social, and economic tumult of an era not so unlike our own—engaged with the public amid global upheaval

In the summer of 1905, the French painters Henri Matisse and André Derain changed the course of art history with their radical color experiments

Revealing the vital influence of the French artist Marie Laurencin, her visual idiom, and her sexual expression on the modernism of twentieth-century Paris

A dramatic and timely account of Stalin’s failed invasion of Finland in 1939, and the decade of wars and fraught relations that followed

Celebrating a major collection of Islamic art, this volume spans the entire history of Islam to bring together items produced throughout the vast region between Andalusia and Mughal India

A panorama of the career of South African photographer David Goldblatt, elucidating his artistic commitments, networks, and influence

A close look at a new installation by renowned contemporary artist Mickalene Thomas that marks the first time she has engaged with early American history

An investigation of conceptual artist Hanne Darboven's artistic practice and her highly personal mark-making as a form of marking time on paper

Highlighting the central role of drawing throughout Ruth Asawa's career, this book's essays illuminate diverse aspects of her drawing practice with reproductions of more than one hundred works, many never before published.