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	Tea Culture of Japan Paper, 112 pp., 173 color illus. ISBN 978-0-30014-692-9 Catalogue for the exhibition, organized by Sadako Ohki, presented at the Yale University Art Gallery (January 20–April 26, 2009), with essay by Ohki and Takeshi Watanabe. This elegant book explores the aesthetics and history of the traditional Japanese tea ceremony, examining the nature of tea collections and the links between connoisseurship, politics, and international relations. It also surveys current practices and settings in light of the ongoing transformation of the tradition in contemporary tea houses. Among the precious objects discussed and pictured are ceramic tea bowls, wooden tea scoops, metal sake pourers, and lacquered incense containers, as well as folding screens that evoke the historical settings of serving tea. Item# 163 Price $19.95; Members $15.96
	The Tiger’s Eye: The Art of a Magazine Paper, 158 pp., color illus. ISBN 0-30009-452-3 Catalogue for the exhibition, organized by Pamela Franks, presented at the Yale University Art Gallery (January 29–March 30, 2002), with essay by Franks. In nine quarterly issues published between 1947 and 1949, The Tiger’s Eye exemplified and transcended the magazine of art and literature. Published in Westport, Connecticut, by poet Ruth Stephan and painter John Stephan, the magazine prized inclusiveness above all else, bringing together Pablo Picasso, early Abstract Expressionism, surrealist verse, traditional Peruvian art, and much more. The book contains a history of the magazine, each of its provocative editorial statements, and an index of contributors, as well as reproductions of selected layouts (including the table of contents from the renowned “Sublime Issue”) and artworks that were presented in its pages. Item# 13589 Price $17.95; Members $14.36 Sale $14; Members $11.20
	Toward an Urban View: The Nineteenth-Century American City in Prints Paper, 48, pp., 14 black-and-white illus. ISBN 0-89467-050-6 Catalogue for the exhibition, organized by Sally Lorensen Gross, presented at the Yale University Art Gallery (March 29–June 11, 1989), with an essay by Gross. This catalogue examines changing views of the city, ranging from copperplates at the start of the nineteenth-century to wood-engraved magazine illustrations at the end. The role of the popular press is explored alongside depictions ranging from a market at Thanksgiving time to the seedy interior of an opium den. Item# 1040 Price $5; Members $4
	Twentieth-Century Japanese Ceramics at the Yale University Art Gallery Paper, 16 pp., 42 color illus. ISBN 0-89467-098-0 Sadako Ohki This booklet explores thirty-five works from the Molly and Walter Bareiss collections of contemporary Japanese ceramics, including functional items such as utensils, vases, and sake servers as well as more experimental pieces. Item# 13262 Price $5; Members $4
	20 Artists: Yale School of Art, 1950–1970 Paper, 62 pp., black and white Catalogue of the exhibition, organized by Irving Sandler, presented at the Yale University Art Gallery (January 29–March 29, 1981), with essay by Sandler. This appreciation of one of the country’s most highly regarded art schools presents work by such celebrated alumni as Chuck Close, Eva Hesse, Robert Mangold, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, and Richard Serra. “The students intensified what Yale had to offer and Yale intensified what the students had to offer,” writes Sandler in an essay that focuses on the sense of community fostered at the legendary Crown Street brownstone and on the influence of Josef Albers, who served as Chairman of the Department of Art and Design from 1950 to 1958. Out of Print